I’m looking forward to a few weeks off before I begin a new role in a technology & management consulting company (which I’m also very much looking forward to). I’m planning on going on an ‘information diet’ during my break and have already cleared inboxes, unchecked starred items, and unsubscribed from plenty of RSS feeds. […]
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At the risk of being controversial, I don’t believe enterprise architecture is about “alignment between IT and the business”. While there is not doubt that an effective enterprise architecture practice will improve this sort of alignment, it needs to do more than improve the standing of IT or the percentage of the value pie that […]
It’s time to add a new topic to this blog – business architecture. This topic will explore trends in business architecture and how the discipline of business architecture can improve the quality of IT planning, governance, and technology-enabled business transformation programs. The question is: what is a business architect and where does the business architecture […]
MWT Collaboration Architectures are a critical component of the MWT Model. In short, a collaboration architecture defines how individuals collaborate on a particular task. As with most architecture work, the focus is on what needs to be shared and what needs to be standardised. Collaboration architectures are not sequential (though there my be some shared […]
I’ve written a few short descriptions of the MWT Model over the years. I just submitted the following to ValueBasedManagement.net: ManageWithoutThem is firstly a theory of how organisations actually behave, rather than how managers should behave. Secondly, it’s a redefinition of the management process so that it benefits the organisation as well as managers themselves. […]
Is the enterprise architecture a town plan? I’m not sure I agree with the idea that the enterprise architecture is analogous to a town plan. For example, under the work-in-progress ‘Coherent Enterprise Archiecture’ (CEA) e-book maintained here, the follow definition applies: “The CEA strategy [is to] to lay out the Notional and holistic enterprise master […]
There is something particularly exciting about Barack Obama’s plan to appoint a government chief technology officer. Not only is this good for government, but it’s also good for the IT industry. Like Ron Tolio of Cap Gemini has said: No half measures. And quite a strong message to many corporations that struggle with the role […]
The MWT Model is a replacement for the standard management practices of an organisation. It is based on the same premises that recognise that market-based economies create value more effectively than planned economies. In this sense, the MWT Model is the natural conclusion of applying the forces that drive globalisation, such as ICT (information and […]