Architecture, Data and Intelligence

My attention has been drawn to a company called Stockpile Reports , which provides a data estimation service for piles of material. As I und...

In many organizations there is a growing awareness of the need for data governance. This is often driven by a perception that something is l...

In a previous post on Uber Mathematics , I asked how the magic of digital would allow a centralized company with international overheads (U...

@ tetradian spots a small, subtle yet very welcome sentence in the latest version of TOGAF.  "An enterprise may include partners, supp...

@ timharford 's article So Many Numbers, So Little Time yesterday prompted me to think about the causal relationship between regulation...

# bizarch # complexity   @ lawrencewilkes asks if business is "inherently complex", or have businesses just allowed it to beco...

# bizarch Does it make sense to produce a business architecture from a single viewpoint, such as a Process Viewpoint or a Capability Viewpo...

#entarch #orgintelligence In an earlier post, I pointed out the architectural trade-off between Complexity and Power . There may be a choice...

This post is based on Chapter 3 of Gareth Morgan's classic book Images of Organization (Sage 1986), which opens with the following qu...

What are the problems of large complex sociotechnical systems? How far do SOA and enterprise architecture help to address this problem space...

In my post on Business Design Choices , I suggested that the real challenge for business architecture was to appreciate the economic and s...

From the early days of SOA, we've talked about understanding the enterprise as a network of services, but clearly this is not the only p...

Opher Etzion on Event Reduction “in some cases, the business benefit of event processing system is actually reducing the number of events, a...

An interesting debate on SaaS and Control Cloudy Future for the Enterprise and most likely for ISVs too (Gianpaolo Carraro, Microsoft) ...

At the BCS Business Information Systems SIG last night to hear a talk by Howard Smith of CSC. Meanwhile, I've been listening to an ACM...

The US Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) mandates what is effectively a systems engineering solution to the problem of bezzle . Reliability o...

Several pundits have attempted to define the principles of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Here is a summary of the SOA principles I ha...