The Great Master Lea was standing on his mountain top pondering the earlier years of his great grandfathers wanderings. He remembered especially one story about three men and a task. As Master Lea focused all his brain power on this story a rather odd looking CEO led by a savvy CIO appeared from out of nowhere. The CIO with some kind of fire in his eyes asked a question. This is what he asked: “Oh great master Lea, we have been doing Enterprise Architecture for x years now and no good has come out of it. What should we do?” The great master Lea looked at the CIO and then at the CEO then turned his head towards the sky and said: “You should stop Enterprising your Architects and start Architecting your Enterprise”
A great tale on Enterprise, Architecture and Architects
2009-06-20 by Jörgen Dahlberg
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