Traditional boundaries between organizations are giving way to innovative and creative relationships, driven by a combination of necessity and opportunity. Cross-company information exchange and collaboration is the central success component. Identifying and addressing external collaboration issues is tailor-made to the broad, cross-enterprise, cross-domain perspective and analyses that an EA group can bring to the table.
Many electric utility companies are in the process of fundamentally changing both their individual operations, as well as the electric industry as a whole. Many of you have probably heard the term “Smart Grid,” but those in the electric industry are either embracing, waiting on or fearing (or maybe even a little bit of all … Read more
The IASA World Summit was another interesting event from Paul Preiss and his crew. Seems like the speakers get more interesting and relevant to EA practitioners at each IASA event. The ongoing debate on “Is EA a profession, a role, a specialty or something else entirely?” continued in full force. Scott Ambler, IBM’s Chief Methodologist … Read more
There has been a lot of discussion recently on online forums, phone calls and visits with clients and prospects, and in the analyst community about the relationship between enterprise architecture and service-oriented architecture … again. Three years ago EAdirections did a webinar with David Linthicum entitled “When EA and SOA Worlds Collide.” (The presentation is available for download.) … Read more
Market Orientation is a business planning discipline that stresses an understanding of market conditions and their impact on your enterprise as the major driver for operational and strategic plans. Obviously, this should then also be a major driver for EA planning. Regardless of whether you formally adopt Market Orientation in your enterprise, you will find … Read more
Last year I mentioned that I attended The Open Group Architecture Practitioners Conference In Toronto and that I was very excited about the direction that the conversations went – namely the need for EA to become more of a strategic business discipline. This month, I attended the version of this event in Seattle. Again, I … Read more
In a keynote presentation at the upcoming IASA ITARC Denver Event I will be discussing the leadership challenges that many current and aspiring IT leaders face in their organizations, and how they can overcome those challenges by applying selected enterprise architecture concepts to their decision-making framework. Not surprisingly, I advocate moving EA “upstream” within the management structure and … Read more