Architecture, Data and Intelligence

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 - reac...

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

@ 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...

@ Cybersal complains about Amazon. "Yet again Amazon ships a tiny book with an unreliable courier that my postman could have shoved ...

#entarch I shall be was one of the speakers at the Unicom EA Forum on February 24th in Central London. This post now edited to remove invi...

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

@ tonyrcollins asks if any healthcare IT system can provide a Single Source of Truth (SSOT)? In his blog ( 13 December 2010 ), he discusses...

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...

@ RSessions kindly gave me a quick overview of his SIP methodology, and how he calculates the complexity of a system of systems, based on t...

This is a follow-up to my post on Two Kinds of Business Model . See also discussion on Business Improvement in the CBDI Forum Linked-In grou...

I've done the one about Lego Bricks and Reuse . But did you hear the one about the Lego Company and Outsourcing? Seems the Danes were lo...

Let me start with a couple of quotes from a speech by US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Washington, D.C., Monday, September 29, 2008 ...

CIO Magazine and the SOA Consortium have just announced the results of their Case Study Contest. And the winners are ... (via Brenda Michel...

In this post, prompted by Gordon's Notes on Complexity and Mobile Phone Plans , I want to talk about Complexity as a Weapon. The term ...

In his latest blogpost, Fine-Tuning the SOA Maturity Model , David writes: "Time and again we recognize that a scope based approach t...

One way to get greater economics of scale (and scope) in SOA is to simplify and generalize the basic services by shifting some of the compl...

Paul Miller replies to my second post on Context-Aware services, and asks if this just means advertising. That's a good question, beca...

Clive Longbottom of Quocirca has just published a survey of the adoption by medium to large organizations of supply chain automation. Here i...