Anatomy of Agile Enterprise

When the Ground Rocks, IT Must Flex

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By Janne J. Korhonen on January 1, 2012 9:20 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
"When the ground rocks, structures must flex." The same is true for companies competing in today's turbulent environment, concludes a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit. In a time of impermanence, agile organizations re-emerge from the discontinuities of the business... Read More..
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Work Systems and Requisite Inquiry

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By Janne J. Korhonen on December 7, 2011 9:53 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
In my previous post, I expounded upon Hoebeke's (1994) notion that work is vertically organized as recursively interlinked work system domains and postulated a link between these structural domains and the ontological domains of the Cynefin framework (Kurtz and Snowden,... Read More..
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Taming the Chaos Is a Spiritual Deed

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By Janne J. Korhonen on October 24, 2011 4:51 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Work is Organized as a Holarchy of Viable Systems In his excellent book "Making Work Systems Better", Luc Hoebeke (1994) develops a work systems framework that provides an alternative to monolithic, hierarchic models of organizations. Arguing that the 'span of... Read More..
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Levels of Governance

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By Janne J. Korhonen on September 28, 2011 6:34 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
In my previous post, I put forth the general -- and trivial -- idea that the increasing complexity of the strategic context calls for increasingly sophisticated governance models. In the following, I will further develop the notion and outline five... Read More..
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IT Governance is Contingent on the Strategic Context

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By Janne J. Korhonen on September 12, 2011 6:30 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Peterson (2004) identifies three basic value drivers of IT governance: service infrastructure, solution integration and strategic innovation. In service infrastructure, the value lies in IT operations and services that are delivered with maximum reliability and availability. It focuses on standardization... Read More..
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Organizational Transformations: Changing to Stay the Same

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By Janne J. Korhonen on August 21, 2011 2:04 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
In my previous post, I discussed how a system must undergo a transformation to persist and to develop. As the notion of ecosystem resilience, introduced therein, may have remained somewhat abstract and elusive, I will here attempt to exemplify systemic... Read More..
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When Less Is Too Much

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By Janne J. Korhonen on July 9, 2011 2:10 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Sometimes less is too much. Inexorably, at some point, the organization or logic of a system that has worked well in the past turns out inadequate in the face of changing environmental circumstances. The inherent limits of system resilience --... Read More..
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Requisite Cognitive Logics in Enterprise Architecture

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By Janne J. Korhonen on July 5, 2011 10:03 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes
In my last two blog posts, I have outlined a five-scale classification of system views and elaborated on the systemic-structural underpinnings of each view. As these systemic views are increasingly expressive and powerful, they also call for progressively sophisticated levels... Read More..
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System Views Revisited: Systemic-Structural Underpinnings

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By Janne J. Korhonen on May 8, 2011 7:58 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
In my latest blog post, I outlined a five-scale classification of system views and discussed tentatively how those system views would pertain to Enterprise Architecture. In the following, I will elaborate on the systemic-structural underpinnings of each view and relate... Read More..
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Requisite System View to Enterprise Architecture

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By Janne J. Korhonen on March 27, 2011 1:44 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a representation of the business in terms of its components and component relationships in order to facilitate business change. It mediates our knowledge and understanding of the underlying organizational system and focuses our attention to the... Read More..
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Janne J. Korhonen provides insights into how information technology can be applied strategically to catalyze organizational change and responsiveness. Drawing from both theory and practice, he discusses agile enterprise and its governance.

Janne J. Korhonen

Janne J. Korhonen is an independent business and IT consultant,specializing in enterprise architecture, business process management,service-oriented architecture and pertinent governance models. He has over ten years of experience as an architect and consultant in a variety of extensive and mission-critical IT projects. With strong theoretical underpinnings, his consulting encompasses systemic co-development of business, organization and information technology.

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