Architecture, Data and Intelligence

Great tweet from @ judyrees this morning. "Metaphor can create powerful insights that become distortions, as the way of seeing creat...

Let's start with the positive. Enterprise architects are mostly pretty skilled at identifying duplication, inconsistency and lack o...

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

Many people perceive value in something called Business-IT alignment, and argue that we should invest in tools and methods that increase thi...

@ RSessions claims that "Simplification occurs when the IT partitions align with the business partitions". But what does alignmen...

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...

@ tetradian Tom Graves is annoyed at Enterprise 2.0 . He (rightly) complains that the term as defined by Andrew McAfee refers to software, ...

Which relationships dominate an organization? Some organizations are driven by customer relationships, some by partner/supplier relationship...

I completely agree with Neil Ward-Dutton when he argues that Businesses aren't machines, and enterprise architecture can't make them...

Nick Malik asks about the relationship between capability model and process modelling. "If your company is a process oriented one (or ...

Lots of interesting debate about the relationship between BPM and SOA: Phil Gilbert (Lombardi), Jesper Joergensen (BEA), Steve Jones , Mik...

While searching for something else, I happened upon a dissertation on Business Processes and IT in the Pharmaceutical Industry , by Kai A. S...

Are Grid and SOA compatible? Phil Wainewright thinks not. SOA aims to create a unified loosely coupled software architecture in which reso...