BASICS: INTRODUCTION
BASICS: ENTERPRISE AND ORGANISATION
Enterprise-architecture – let’s keep it simple
Enterprise and organisation as ends and means
Enterprise as adjective, enterprise as noun
Where does enterprise-architecture sit?
Positioning EA in the enterprise
A kind of manifesto (short version)
BASICS: ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
Architecture versus design
Notes on architecture versus design
What’s the difference between architecture and design?
Do enterprise-architects design the enterprise?
What is NOT enterprise-architecture?
The structure of enterprise architecture
BASICS: METHOD
Tools for change: Back to the basics
Architecture is simple
Vision, role, mission, goal
On innovation, foundations, scaffolding and Portakabins
Data, information, knowledge, wisdom
Inside-in, inside-out, outside-in, outside-out
- Implications in EA practice
Two kinds of Why
Why and Because
Why before who
BASICS: ARCHITECTURE IN MINIATURE
EA in miniature - Part 1: Introduction
EA in miniature - Part 2: First steps
- Implications for mainstream enterprise-architecture
EA in miniature - Part 3: Getting real
- Implications for mainstream enterprise-architecture
EA in miniature - Part 4: Prototyping
- Implications for mainstream enterprise-architecture
BASICS: CHECKLISTS
The power of checklists
Checklists and complexity
- Plain sailing in stormy weather
- Shaping a checklist
- Implications for enterprise-architecture
Principles and checklists
A services-checklist for digital-transformation
- 1. Service strategy
- 2. Service design
- 3. Service transition
- 4. Service operation
- 5. Continual service improvement
- 6. Service value management
- 7. Service management for transformation
A checklist for business-transformations
- 1. Story and purpose
- 2. Scope and stakeholders
- 3. Context, scale and scaling
- 4. Full-cycle governance
- 5. Structural flaws in the context
- 6. Limits and constraints
- 7. Resistance to change
The fourth checklist
BASICS: TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
Taxonomy, ontology and suchlike
Assets and Resources
- Resources in Business Model Canvas
- Capability as Resource
- Asset and Resource
Definitions on capability
CRUD, CRUDE and other action-acronyms
Declaring the assumptions
Fractals, naming and enterprise-architecture
- Applications in enterprise-architecture
What What? and other taxonomic tangles
The relationship is the asset
What is enterprise? What is architecture?
What is knowledge?
