by Philip Allega | October 28, 2010 | 8 Comments
I think that the push for considering an alternative means to engage in EA is, indeed, already underway. In organizations who treat “people as strategy” (e.g., SEMCO, Whole Foods, HCL, Topcoder), wherein people are give broad self-directed control of creating and executing strategy in real time, the notion that one will “translate business vision [...]
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by Philip Allega | October 14, 2010 | Comments Off
It’s Symposium season. We actually began in South Africa at the end of August and in Brazil in September. We continue this coming Sunday-Thursday in Orlando and then Cannes, France, Japan and Sydney, Australia, to conclude this years largest gathering of CIOs and IT leaders in the world. For me, and my colleagues in enterprise [...]
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by Philip Allega | October 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Enterprise architects use metadata repositories to indicate the enterprise state of the items stored within. Gartner’s IT Market Clock plots the current state and predicted lifecycle of IT products or services within a marketplace. Enterprise architects will benefit from communicating the lifecycle positioning on internally held assets versus the marketplace perspective, as well as be [...]
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by Philip Allega | October 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
In Gartner’s recent report, IT Metrics: Office of the CIO Staffing Report, 2010 , we noted that: The top-ranked function employed or implemented within the OCIO (Office of the CIO) is enterprise architecture, with 76% of respondents reporting a full-time equivalent (FTE) response to this role So, why so much angst over whether EA is “dead”? [...]
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