by Brian Burke | May 19, 2010 | Comments Off
We closed out another great EA Summit in London yesterday! Dave Aron delivered an insightful talk on how to leverage business model analogies to bring some new ideas to the business strategy planning table. And to wrap it up, Andy Kyte discussed how to overhaul a bloated application portfolio and of course applied all of [...]
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by Brian Burke | May 17, 2010 | Comments Off
We’ve had a great kick-off today to the EA Summit in London. Nick Gall presented on Hybrid Thinking and how to apply this approach to build up solutions rather than decompose problems. This is an entirely new way of looking at enterprise architecture and will be a major focus of our research in the future. [...]
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by Brian Burke | May 17, 2010 | Comments Off
Despite threats from the ash cloud, we’ve arrived and successfully kick-off the EA Summit in London this morning. We’ve got a tremendous agenda lined up that I’m sure people will find the conference enlightening. I’m especially looking forward to meeting with conference delegates, vendors and colleagues over the next couple of days at the EA [...]
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by Brian Burke | April 17, 2010 | Comments Off
We’ve just wrapped up the EA Summit in Las Vegas and it seems to have been a very positive experience for everyone. The Gartner analysts and our case study speakers were very happy with the level of sophistication of the audience – great questions, comments and challenges. Many attendees had positive comments on both the [...]
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by Brian Burke | April 16, 2010 | 1 Comment
Day two was jam packed with content from both Gartner analysts and case studies. I personally led a round table session on innovation with a group of about ten people which led to some amazing insights, the most interesting was a discussion on how to build a passion for innovation in an organization. Andy Kyte [...]
by Brian Burke | April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
The EA Summit in Vegas kicked off yesterday with a great presentation from Gartner analyst Nick Gall who introduced Hybrid Thinking. Nick posits that enterprise architects need a new paradigm to deal with wicked problems and has taken some of the best ideas from the Design Thinking approach and applied them to EA. Several tweeters [...]
by Brian Burke | April 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
In an open letter blog to President Obama, Burton Group Senior Analyst Joe Bugajski opines that President Obama is spewing “delusional visions of a nation-covering, interoperable, secure, private, reliable, accurate, and instantaneous electronic healthcare data network is at best terrifying and at worst pernicious.” OK – I had to look up ‘pernicious’. It’s not good. [...]
Category: EA NHS Tags: Barack Obama, Electronic Patient Records
by Brian Burke | March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
Yesterday we finished up the EA Foundation Seminar in Barcelona and it was an interesting event. Some of my observations: Lots of companies are getting EA new programs off the ground – but perhaps not as many as in the past few years. This is likely a direct response to the economic crisis. Open Source [...]
Category: EA EA Foundation Seminar Tags: EA, EA Foundation Seminar, Essential Architecture Manager
by Brian Burke | March 12, 2009 | 3 Comments
Chris Wilson recently alerted me to an opinion piece on the British Computer Society (BCS) website written by Peter Kemp and Dr John McManus that is critical of enterprise architecture in general and the National Program for IT (NPfIT) of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) in particular. Some members of the BCS have been quite critical of [...]
by Brian Burke | March 11, 2009 | Comments Off
Ten years ago I coined the term ‘federated architecture’ to describe an approach to enterprise architecture that allows interoperability and information sharing between semi-autonomous business units. Since then hundreds of companies and governments have adopted this approach. I remain a big supporter of the idea, but I am also aware of the difficulties to implement this approach, [...]
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Category: EA Tags: Federal CIO, Federated Architecture, Government, Vivek Kundra
