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Is Enterprise Architecture the Solution to Business / IT Misfits?

September 10, 2010

If you believe a lot of marketing around Enterprise Architecture it is. But in the practice the overkill of EA strategies and implementation really brings a lot to mind when it comes to solutions on Business and IT misfits. IT doesn’t support Business as much as it should. IT doesn’t push Business as hard as [...]

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The Ambiguity of Large Scale Projects

September 10, 2010

Although most of us realize that projects need to get smaller. Actual small IT projects barely exist. When we look at integration and migration projects. Designing new Business processes and aligning technological solutions to mach those, we open a large number of organizational challenges. Especially integration projects can contain a lot of misconceptions in the [...]

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The Essence of Visualizing your Business/IT Strategy

September 6, 2010

I’ve never met anyone who loves think, extensive reports, not even for their essential strategies. But we still create them. Why? Because we think it’s important. Working out the first steps in Business & IT strategies is essential, but we need to brighten up a bit. Lean and Agile thinking works on this principle. We [...]

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Is Business Architecture really the Basis of it All?

August 10, 2010

In most Enterprise Architecture frameworks the Business Architecture drives the Information Architecture. But is this completely accurate? Didn’t we gain some new insights over the past few years. Information, and especially technology (or IT) Architecture can drive the Business Architecture, creating new and previously unimagined possibilities for organizations. Modern IT isn’t anymore about offering the [...]

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Business and IT, Everything is Entangled

July 22, 2010

Opening up all cliches on Business and IT alignment. Yesterday, I had a discussion on how IT really could solve business problems. One of the statements that came by was that we simply needed to listen to the business in order to understand what IT has to do. This is, in my opinion, a bit [...]

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Enterprise Architecture as Part of Business Strategy

March 19, 2010

We have discussed the must of Business and IT working together, enabling instead of passively facilitating. We have talked about Enterprise Architecture and an approach where it goes wrong and just becomes an documentation obstacle and a way to ´hedging´ for the IT department and why we need to set a measurable Agility parameter inside [...]

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