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April 10, 2018
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Layers of the Enterprise Architecture

In other words, business architecture just became more important — and more difficult.   https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/architect-your-company-for-agility/   How do you define and contrast Business Architecture from contemporary definitions and perspectives of Enterprise Architecture?   Defining and Contrasting Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture & Product Management Roles Business Architecture is a discipline focused on providing strategic guidance, change management, and alignment of…

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Emerging Business Architecture

December 11, 2016
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Business architecture is traditionally an area that doesn’t get the credit I feel it deserves. This tower typically works with the Technical, Data and Solution architects to help translate business strategies into workable and viable technical solutions. Additionally business architecture is relayed on to innovate and look for interesting ways to provide capabilities back to the business. Business architecture…

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Evaluating Emerging Technologies

December 4, 2016
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Keeping up with emerging technologies is a difficult proposition to fulfill on. The pace of change as we pivot away from on-prem datacenters and leverage what the cloud has to offer. Most cloud providers are building specific services that are becoming integral components These new services drive innovation, however they also are proving to lock in the application owner….

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Decline in Discipline of Technical Architecture

October 7, 2016
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Delcline Dicipline of Technical Architecture  The shift from on-prem infrastructure to the cloud footprint capabilities become more critical. Because of the inherent shift we need enterprise architecture more than ever. To the contrary, what I have observed with large companies moving to the cloud is a perception that because of the fungible footprint, enterprise architecture is no longer needed….

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Influence without Authority

April 23, 2016
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Change Management and EA, Influence without authority.    The enterprise architect is rarely in a place of true authority. Because they generally work across the enterprise, their sphere of direct authority pales in comparison to that of the enterprise. Usually aside from a handful of like minded architects, the position itself requires an architect leverage influence to get things…

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Bimodal EA – Value Proposition

April 17, 2016
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Bimodal EA – A New Model for EA If there is one thing I have been able to glean from the class this semester is that the landscape of EA is rapidly changing. In the text this semester Enterprise Architecture as Strategy,  the EA drives an operational persona that works well to manage complexities of large waterfall organizations. These…

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Federated Governance

March 19, 2016
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Federated Governance This is a hot topic amongst my colleagues. Federated governance take many different forms and the question remains, how much is enough to maintain the value of Enterprise Architecture? The landscape in a federated world is affected by the maturity of the Architecture practice within the Corporation. This is true of both centralized and federated corporations, however…

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Change Management Enterprise Architecture Psychology Social Sciences

January 28, 2016
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In a world where artificial intelligence is moving from buzzword to everyday capability, the most compelling projects are those built around AI from the ground up. Imagine a boat whose design, operation, and strategy are guided by AI at every layer—not as a single feature, but as the operating principle. This post explores how you would approach building such…

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