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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…
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 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…
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
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…
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…
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…
Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2018 BPM Conference Europe 2018 22-25 October 2018, London I am looking forward to speaking at IRM’s co-located conferences on Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management, 22-25 October 2018, London. This is one of my favourite EA conferences. It provides an excellent opportunity to mix with architects from a wide variety…
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
(often attributed to Albert Einstein – probably erroneously – but it’s a great quote anyway)
Is this useful? I’ve done some research, but can’t find anything else to explain how an architecture evolves in an enterprise without an architect. I’d love some feedback. Every now and then I get a question asking about how enterprises develop without an enterprise architect. For example, there are many new startups and many established…
