What distinguishes enterprise architecture from other disciplines? One way that I’ve tried to explain this is to describe 10 core principles that are a fundamental part of EA. In this video I explain – what do you think?
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How to avoid a dog’s Brexit – an EA approach to massive change
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Teresa may satisfy a few stakeholders doesn’t sound like a good commendation for an enterprise architect!
Peace and joy to you all in 2019
by Roger Evernden •
Peace, joy and success for you in 20192018 has been a challenging year for architects; there are so many changes facing every enterprise, and there are colossal concerns threatening our lovely planet. I hope 2019 brings you peace, joy, and success. Please listen, follow, and share this holiday playlist on Spotify:
What are the most important moral problems of our time?
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Enterprise Architects have a great deal of potential power and influence. How can the Effective Altruism movement help direct our efforts towards the best long-term futures? An introduction to Effective Altruism This TED Talk gives perspective and a sense of scale to the history of humans on planet Earth. We’ve only been around for a…
What makes EA artefacts useful? Six criteria to evaluate your artefacts
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We seem to be in a new age of EA literature, with a growing number of books that really get into the detail of how one can architect. One example is Marc Gewertz and his book Defining Enterprise. Marc wrote a recent LinkedIn post about the need for architects to make their design explicit through…
A scarce skill set again? Are you surprised?
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A 2017 CIO survey by Harvey Nash and KPMG shows that EA is the fastest growing tech skill in demand. While this is clearly a good thing for all budding architects I am concerned that the emphasis on such studies is still on technical skills… and yet the best architects that I’ve ever met have…
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How will #EntArch help enterprises to adapt to emerging, unprecedented, and often unexpected challenges? @RogerEvernden explains, 24 October at #eacbpm London https://t.co/vBgJ225TaM pic.twitter.com/aMU9lY4jMc
— IRM UK (@IRMUK) August 8, 2018
Economic Purpose – the intersect between social purpose and good business
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For anyone in EA who thinks we need to be doing more than simply making the fat cats fatter… this deck from the Economist Group describing Economic Purpose – where social purpose and good business interact. It found three types of benefit in the overlap between financial business health and commitment to social purpose. This…
Are you bringing positive change in the world by doing what you love?
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Continuing my theme that EA can make a big difference, I thought you might find “Architecture can change the world” an interesting post. This article is about building architecture, but with a little sidestep it could easily apply to EA. Here are a couple of questions for enterprise architects: Which is enterprise architecture is your…
Is Brexit the worst ever EA project?
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Lessons for Enterprise Architecture from BrexitAs I live in the UK it’s not surprising that Brexit is a hot and controversial topic. Last night Elaine and I were recounting everything that we felt had gone wrong during the Brexit process (it was a long conversation), and I started thinking about Brexit as if it were…
