Posts Tagged ‘strategy’
A great tale about planning
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, tagged Distance, Enterprise architecture, Master Lea, planning, strategy on 2009-06-01 | Leave a Comment »
The Great Master Lea was sitting on his mountain top basking in the sun. Earlier this morning a well known strategist from a global consultancy house had come before him to tell him the truth about planning. This is what the strategist said: “Only by first knowing where you stand can you judge how far you [...]
Business model of me
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, Enterprise architecture, Open for business, tagged Business model, Enterprise architecture, Me, Method, osterwalder, strategy, Zachman Framework on 2008-12-31 | 1 Comment »
2009 is gaining ground on me and it has become time to sit down and deal with this “me” thing again. This time I’ve used the methodology of Osterwalder to map out my personal business model. To get it in a slightly more architectural flavour, I have used the Zachman enterprise framework to sort out the primitives and [...]
What do I do?
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, The art of architecture, tagged ea-nomad, internet native, Method, pathfinder, scout, strategy on 2008-04-24 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been pondering this simple question “what do I do?”. Not the simple what do I do question, but the really hard what do I do with a super capital “I“. It’s so easy to throw out something saying I’m an enterprise architect, or I work in IT and information architecture or I map processes [...]
The art of architecture #6
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, Enterprise architecture, The art of architecture, tagged Enterprise architecture, One liner, strategy, The art of architecture on 2008-03-02 | Leave a Comment »
The art of architecture #6 simply says: To make sure the success of an entreprise architecture effort one should strive to express the heart of it in a “one liner”.
Others have written about the importance of one liners, not in the common understanding of what EA is but from the stance of strategy. Remember that [...]
Using models for reasoning about the E in EA
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, Enterprise architecture, Open for business, SOA, tagged Enterprise architecture, Gartner, Model, reason, strategy, Togaf on 2007-11-13 | Leave a Comment »
For years I’ve been fascinated by the usage of EA as a means to document and structure all aspects of an enterprise. There are many good sources of information out there today that will show you how to do that. But what about reasoning about the enterprise, what models exists to do that. I’ve put [...]