Architecture, Data and Intelligence

Continuing my exploration of the four dimensions of Data Strategy . In this post, I bring together some earlier themes, including Pace Layer...

This is one of a series of posts looking at the four key dimensions of data and information that must be addressed in a data strategy - rea...

There is a common view in the enterprise architecture world that complexity is a big problem, perhaps the biggest problem, and that the prim...

In response to @ Griff0Jones , I promised to beef up the coverage of OODA in my book on Organizational Intelligence ( draft now available vi...

#ukgovit @ instituteforgov has just published a report called System Error: Fixing the Flaws in Government IT . The report recommends a ...

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

In my previous post on the Economics of Agility , I noted how little material has been published on this topic. As Nicholas Whittall and P...

@ andygreenawalt says he hasn't seen much on the economics of agility. "Open source breaks $ vs security battle. Investment impreg...

In a post called Kitchen Sink Variability , Harry "Devhawk" Pierson (Microsoft) lays into a research note by Ronald Smeltzer (Zapt...

Andrew McAfee recently posted The Case Against the Business Case ., which indicates why it's wrong (or at least dangerous) to make a bus...

There are several strands of agile development and quality management that are concerned with reducing (some measure of) variation in order ...

One of the perceived benefits of SOA is business agility and system adaptability. In this post, I am going to discuss some aspects of this. ...

I have just come across an interesting talk by Shai Agassi of SAP, entitled Achieving Enterprise Agility. Slides ( pdf ) from Accelerating...