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Social Networking – What’s good for them is good for EA
Enterprise architects have historically struggled with the process of publishing content to the stakeholders in their organization. Conventional advice has been to create an intranet site or other...
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EA Principles Have Little Value
Just recently I learned that a client’s CIO leadership team began a detailed and substantive discussion on EA principles, the implications they carry for their organization, and how they can use them...
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Using MIT CISR’s Operating Model to Drive BA Design
I have recently been working with a company that is getting their enterprise business architecture effort under way very successfully. One of the most successful aspects of their effort has been...
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Smart Grid and EA – Making Smart Grid Smarter
Many electric utility companies are in the process of fundamentally changing both their individual operations, as well as the electric industry as a whole. Many of you have probably heard the term...
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Mobility and Social Networking: Do You Have a Need for a Strategy?
Two of the biggest trends that many companies are addressing right now are mobility and Social Networking. Maybe second only to cloud computing in hype right now, these two areas represent...
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Federated EA in Larger vs. Smaller Enterprises
George and I are often asked ”How is EA different between smaller and larger organizations?” There are a number of differences (amount of available resources, degree of complexity, flatness of the...
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EA Tips – Substance OVER Structure
If you read my post on “Style AND Substance” I stated that an EA team shouldn’t spend disproportionate energy on content creation without also paying attention to the many softer, stylistic elements...
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EA Tips – Style AND Substance
For an EA practice to be effective EA leaders must pay attention to both the “style” of how their team operates and the “substance” of the work they produce. While that guidance isn’t new, in practice...
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Too Much Tactical Focus with Business Architecture?
As more and more organizations embrace Enterprise Architecture with a concerted effort in Business Architecture (BA),. we are beginning to see one of the common pitfalls of IT Architecture (ITA) spill...
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EA Tips: Anchor Models
Anchor models are context diagrams that capture the essence of the enterprise as a simple graphic. They should be equally meaningful to both business and IT personnel and should be so intuitive that...
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