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On whole-enterprise architecture

Principles and practice for open contexts

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog highlights part of the work that we did to break enterprise-architecture out of the IT-centric box, and restructure it to support the whole enterprise. Whole-enterprise architecture, or Whole-EA, provides a literal ‘the architecture of the enterprise’, connecting everything together as ‘equal citizens’, across every type of content or context, for every scope and scale.

This book includes about 35 posts and 95 images from the weblog, and is split into three sections:

  • Whole-EA: Principles, Tools and Methods - maps out some of the definitions, principles, tools, techniques and methods that are needed whilst working on architectures at a whole-of-enterprise level.
  • Whole-EA: Examples - presents examples of how real-world questions and concerns can interweave across the many layers of a whole-of-enterprise architecture.
  • Whole-EA: Challenges - highlights the impact of pushback from those who objected to any change in the role or scope of enterprise-architecture.

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Tom Graves

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than four decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including small-business, banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in whole-enterprise architectures for non-profit, social, government and commercial enterprises.

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Table of Contents

ON WHOLE-EA: INTRODUCTION

WHOLE-EA: PRINCIPLES, TOOLS AND METHODS

Declaring the assumptions

Fractals, naming and enterprise-architecture

  1. Applications in enterprise-architecture

Between the boxes

Principles, values, ends and means

Hybrid-thinking, enterprise architecture and the US Army

Dependency and resilience in enterprise-architecture models

Competition-against or competition-with?

  1. Implications in business-architecture and enterprise-architecture

On layers in enterprise-architecture

  1. Practical implications for enterprise-architectures
  2. Summary

Simplifying SCORE

More on simplifying SCORE

Simplifying SCORE, again

Auftragstaktik and fingerspitzengefühl

Tools for change: Back to the basics

Sensemaking: Down in the dungeons

Fractality in Five Elements method

A services-checklist for digital-transformation

  1. 1. Service strategy
  2. 2. Service design
  3. 3. Service transition
  4. 4. Service operation
  5. 5. Continual service improvement
  6. 6. Service value management
  7. 7. Service management for transformation

On ‘shared-enterprise’

Applications, work-instructions and business-continuity

Which EA tools? – and why?

WHOLE-EA: EXAMPLES

Context-perspectives and enterprise-architecture maturity

House and home

“Please don’t touch the touchscreen”

“It’s not rocket-science”

The point of specialism

RBPEA: The other Bolshevism

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Why whole-enterprise architecture matters

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Where is the information when we need it?

Pointless paperwork

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Enterprise-architectures for the real world

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

WHOLE-EA: CHALLENGES

The Really Big Picture for enterprise-architecture

The dilution of enterprise-architecture

On not eating the elephant

I’m sorry, but I just can’t afford it

Intimations of arrogance from a grumpy old guy?

Intimations of arrogance? - an addendum

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