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A General Approach for Analysing Problems and Their Root Causes Anywhere

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Enterprise Architecture Image made by the author in Canva Pro In time, production designs, materials, and skills become standardised. Take cars, which differ little from manufacturer to manufacturer, laptops, fridges, chairs, etc. This is also true for service industries such as hotels, banking, telecommunications, healthcare, IT, etc.… Read the rest

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How To Identify the COMPLETE AI Potential In the Enterprise. The Human Paradigm.

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Enterprise Architecture Image made by the author in SketchWow Introduction Everyone is discussing AI and applying it helter-skelter. Whether or not we like AI, we should understand it and know how far it can go. So, I asked myself: As an Enterprise Architect, how do I know I’ve not missed AI anywhere?… Read the rest

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A Standard Template to Define Your EA & Technology Strategy

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Architecture Essays Constant, well-managed change is the lifeblood of enterprise success. So, everything in the EA Practice leads to this — the Enterprise’s Architecture and Technology Strategy and Plan, the EATSP. (Although this template is tailored for commercial businesses, it can be easily used for government and non-profit organisations by changing the inputs to be the motivations…

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How to Document Your Current Enterprise Architecture & Technology

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Image made by the author One of the holy grails for an Enterprise Architect is a document (including or accompanied by diagrams and spreadsheets) that captures everything in the Information Technology domain of the organisation. This core EA artefact is the current Enterprise Architecture & Technology Document, abbreviated to EATD.… Read the rest

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How to Assess Enterprise Architecture Practice Maturity

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An architecture essay Image by the author Your enterprise has an architecture, but without a good Enterprise Architecture Practice, it’s unlikely you are doing as well as you can. We can also call it the organisation’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) capability, competency, framework, or engine.… Read the rest

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How to Make IT Systems Resilient

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Expert Architecture Techniques Free image from Freepiks courtesy MacroVector No humanmade system is immune to failure. However robust we make a service, it will go down sometime. What we architects need to do is deliberately design services to recover quickly. Here’s how, from my experience in architecting and improving resilience in IT systems.… Read the rest

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Five Vital Organisations for IT Architects

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Architecture essays Image made by the author Organisations that promote standards, new ideas and community are vital to the health and growth of any profession. This article is a brief introduction to five organisations that, in my experience, consistently and ably boost IT Architecture skills and practice by supporting: Standardisation Reference architectures Technical documentation Working groups…

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