The Naivete of One Capability Model
I confess to my own naivete. Perhaps it’s from all those years working at the level of the “Enterprise Architecture…
Alternatives to the EPSC Model
The Enterprise Partner Supplier Customer (EPSC) Model sits as a core concept of Enterprise Architecture. It is so much at…
Diversity Versus Replication of Organizational Processes and Information
I recently had the pleasure of joining a discussion among organizational development professionals. During that discussion, one individual asked an…
Steps To Create a Core Diagram
To be fair, these are steps to create a solid understanding of the architecture of a business, but the deliverable…
MSBI–Part 2—What is a core diagram?
In her wildly popular book, Enterprise Architecture As Strategy, Dr. Jeanne Ross describes the use of “core diagrams” in Enterprise…
Creating a Core Diagram for Agile Business
Today, I gave my talk at the Open Group conference that presents a step-by-step method for creating a core diagram…
The responsibility of architecture is to create an architecture of responsibility
I cannot take credit for that aphorism… credit goes to Jan Van Til. He coined the term after reading Tom…
Introducing: Ecosystem Quality Attributes
There are benefits to taking an idea from one domain and applying it to another. We all know of the…
Should IT run “like a business” or “like a non-profit?”
Why is it so hard to run IT like a business? Because, I can choose to be a customer of…
SOA in the Diversification Model
This is fifth in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture. (see overview)…