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How To Understand The Difference Between Value-Proposition and a Product or Service
One of my startup heroes Steve Blank wrote in a blog post that “value proposition is the fancy name for your product or service” It is with some trepidation that […]
Types of Cost
When planning and measuring business benefits there are three basic contributing elements: revenues, costs and intangibles. If you look for guidance on “types of cost” most sources decompose cost types […]
Tom Graves – The Business of the Business
An article by Tom Graves defining the scope of “business” every organisation is also ‘a business’ the business of an organisation is whatever the organisation does, for whatever business-reasons and […]
Enterprise Architecture & Complexity Theory
Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet “Complexity theory predicts that we cannot rely on predictions.” This post is a series of excerpts from the following brilliant presentation on Complexity Theory. […]
Enterprise Architecture Benefits
Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet Here is a free, un-formatted slide deck that describes some of the key benefits that can be gained from applying Enterprise Architecture. It can […]
Enterprise Architecture & Systems Thinking
Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet (See also the Enterprise Advocate’s post on Enterprise Architecture & Complexity Theory) I just discovered this brilliant presentation by Dr Russ Ackoff. In it he […]
Top 10 Tips for Data Warehouse Developers
I’ve been reading some excellent material lately about the perilous task of building data warehouse capability. It cause me to reflect on my own learning from running large enterprise data […]
Enterprise Architecture Aphorisms
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Simple models of complex things do not make those things simple. – Len Fehskens If your model of […]
Are traditional enterprise architecture metaphors valid?
“It is useful to be aware that analogies are tools for leverage, and indeed part of their utility is not just in extracting the insights they bring with, but insights […]
Enterprise Architecture Analogies
“It is useful to be aware that analogies are tools for leverage, and indeed part of their utility is not just in extracting the insights they bring with, but insights […]
Is Enterprise Architecture a Thing? If so, is it useful?
The ability of the Enterprise Architecture community to ruminate and argue about the definition of EA seems just about limitless. The latest of which is a debate about the Wikipedia […]
The Tracey & Wiersema Value Discipline Model – Part 1
Introduction The Treacy & Wiersema Value-Discipline Model was first published in the ground-breaking Harvard Business Review article “Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines,” (c. 1993) and was expanded in a […]
Enterprise Architecture Body Of Knowledge (EABOK)
The Enterprise Architecture Body Of Knowledge The Enterprise Architecture Body Of Knowledge (EABOK) is a definition of the body of knowledge for Enterprise Architecture. The EABOK was developed by Mitre […]
Highlights of Len Fehsken’s “Re-thinking Architecture
This link [http://is.gd/g55wp] is a very interesting read about the scope and nature of enterprise architecture that helps to clarify a very widely misunderstood (because it is still embryonic) discipline. […]
The A-Z Guide to Being an Architect
“An A-Z Guide to Being an Architect” by Mark Bloodworth and Marc Holmes is a lighthearted article outlining a number of key attributes of architects. An extract is below. Is there […]
Adrian Grigoriu’s EA Framework
Adrian Grigoriu‘s Enterprise architecture framework definition. This is a extract of Adrian’s www.ebizq.net blog post “An Enterprise Architecture framework definition“. It is a very enlightening post by Adrian at a time when […]
Summary of the Business Architecture Working Group’s (BAWG) Nobel Prize Case Study
The Nobel Prize Case study workshop was conducted & presented at the Open Group Conference in Amsterdam (2010) The session was led by Harry Hendrickx – CTO at Hewlett Packard. […]
Reasons that business may come asking for “Enterprise Architecture”
This article could also be entitled “Reasons business may come asking for help, where enterprise architecture thinking and techniques can be applied (without mentioning EA)” At the start of 2010 […]
Sample Set: Enterprise Architect Interview Questions
Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet I’m interviewing an enterprise architecture candidate today. His CV suggests that he is an enterprise IT solution architect so I am going to probe […]
Enterprise Architecture’s Obsession with Efficiency
Jeff Scott recently wrote a great blog “Is the current EA paradigm right for business architecture?” http://blogs.forrester.com/jeff_scott/11-01-25-is_the_current_ea_paradigm_right_for_business_architecture The comments section was full of erudite responses from several of the leading […]