Journal Recommendations
Often getting access to a specific scientific journal can be very cumbersome or expensive, unless you have bulk access through an academic or research institution. In the past few weeks I have been...
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Enterprise Ontology Practice
I have great news! Firstly, I have today (tentatively) put the last dot into my chapter on Enterprise Ontology Practice. Secondly, I have converted all of my Word/docx and Omnigraffle sources into...
View ArticleOn Government Adoption of Enterprise Architecture as an Institutional Process
During the past few days, I have been reviewing Kristian Hjort-Madsen's PhD 'Architecting Government: Understanding Enterprise Architecture Adoption in the Public Sector'in relation to enterprise...
View ArticleCase Study Mode
Hello Fellow Followers, I am sorry for the radio silence, but I have been extremely busy writing up my case studies for the last month. It is the biggest and most important part of my thesis. Luckily,...
View ArticleUpdate: End of Thesis, New Book
This blog has been dead for a while, partially due to a major, positive change of circumstances in my private and professional life. First of all, I married my wife on September 25 in Sydney. Hence, my...
View ArticleBank Branches need Process Improvement
I am generally a happy client with my personal bank here in Australia. Their online services are good, they have excellent phone service, always reply to my enquiries with a smile, and service fees are...
View ArticleArchitectural Control as a Managerial Paradox
In recent years, IS academia has argued that EA is increasingly becoming a strategic management tool or a high-level business function for long term planning and execution. It has been a healthy...
View ArticleQuality Criteria for BPMS Programs
Recently, I have been initiating a Business Process Management System (BPMS) implementation for a major client in the financial sector. This made me wonder: how can I come up with a set of...
View ArticleOn the Brink of Structure and Chaos: Framework Prescription and Real-World...
An often returning discussion with my clients is the practical applicability, boundaries, and presumptions of enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks. Following a recent debate on LinkedIn, some EA...
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Rhizome: On Dilemmas in Enterprise Architecture Planning
In the field of IS and management we often put forward a certain conception of the organisation, the social. In contemporary business consulting and management academia, the organisation is often...
View ArticleAnnouncing Upcoming Book: Systems Thinking in Enterprise Architecture
Dr. John Gøtze and I have announced the forthcoming publication of a new book titled: Systems Thinking in Enterprise Architecture. The book, which targets the intersection of practitioners and...
View ArticleTowards Next Generation Process Execution
A considerable part of my professional time is spent on advising people on discovering, redesigning, and --- if possible and feasible --- automating their business processes. Often, trivial,...
View ArticleNew Publication in Journal of Enterprise Architecture
My research paper on systems thinking, sense-making, and enterprise architecture planning in government has been published in the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal...
View ArticleThe Modesty of Writing
Blogging, e-books, and social networks have all increased the speed at which we communicate—or, from a Luhmannian perspective, how we share our utterances with the communication. For DIY publishers,...
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Clever Spam
A couple of days ago some random spammer sent me the following e-mail:It actually looks exactly like the e-mail notifications I receive daily from Twitter -- that is, except for the link content....
View ArticleIBM's Open Source Enterprise Generation Language
I recently discovered that IBM have released their Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) toolkit as open source in a donation to the Eclipse project. That is definitely a nice move by IBM who are...
View ArticleCommon Pitfalls of Solution Architecture Governance
Framework-ism: Form and structure over content and good practice (not best practice). Best practice is all too often a cover for theoretically ideal, but practically non-functional...
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Communication Architecture
In my previous research, I have investigated the relationship between transformation, planning, and communication in large-scale architecture programs. Obviously and unsurprisingly, communication has a...
View ArticleStand Up Against SOPA!
This blog post is a comment on the recent political debacle about the proposed Protect IP Act (PIPA) and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) -- two of the, in my opinion, most draconian breaches of privacy...
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Don’t buy flowers from ReadyFlowers
I usually don’t blog about my personal shopping experience, but a recent experience forced me to publish this post. I travel a lot for business, so for Valentine’s Day I decided to order a bouquet of...
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