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“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.â€? - George Bernard Shaw Are you communicating the vision, business value and delivery capabilities of enterprise architecture?  Or just talking at people?... Read More..

McKinsey just published a new report, Why business needs should shape IT architecture, which speaks to taking a new approach to Enterprise Architecture programs.  An approach that is business-driven, capability centric, and change aware.  In other words, McKinsey echoes my... Read More..

“Vision without implementation is hallucination." – Benjamin Franklin Is your enterprise architecture work mere hallucination?  If so, what will you do differently tomorrow?... Read More..

On Friday, David Linthicum invited me on his cloud computing podcast to chat about what we heard, and didn’t hear, at the Cloud Connect conference.  Naturally, our discussion wound its way to the connections of cloud computing, enterprise architecture, service-oriented... Read More..

Last Thursday, I barged into a Twitter conversation on the “ultimate outcome of Enterprise Architectureâ€?.  The conversation was related to Forrester’s Enterprise Architecture Forum in San Diego, which I missed due to the blizzard at JFK.  @Dcoon posed the question:... Read More..

Salesforce.com just added a powerful new tool to its Force.com development platform, a Visual Process Manager: “The Visual Process Manager brings the power of Cloud Computing to Business Process Apps. Now you can visually draw any business process and instantly... Read More..

As I mentioned on the 12th, I'm dedicating 100-days worth of research sessions to explore "enterprise cloud computing considerations".  My first topic is adoption trends: What are organizations doing, or planning to do, with cloud computing? What types of cloud... Read More..

As I mentioned in my 2010 plans, one of my projects this year is writing and advocacy for the OMG’s Business Ecology Initiative (BEI).  This morning, we launched the new Business Ecology Initiative blog, and I published the following overview... Read More..

I have a couple of items to share this week before I can officially append "Emeritus" to my SOA Consortium Program Director title.  [For my 2010 plans, go here].  The first is a discussion-oriented paper by the EA2010 Working Group... Read More..

Session Abstract: “IT has undergone major change, but the pace of change that lies in the immediate future has never been experienced. New platforms driven by cloud computing, new sources of infrastructure and applications solutions, the changing technology stack and... Read More..