Comments on: Enterprise Aliens http://www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/enterprise-aliens/ joined-up management for a joined-up world ™ by Colin Beveridge Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kirk Rheinlander http://www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/enterprise-aliens/comment-page-1/#comment-4204 Kirk Rheinlander Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:50:32 +0000 http://www.colin-beveridge.com/?p=2171#comment-4204 As defined by the originators of enterprise architecture over 25 years ago, EA is a business management process, communicating the strategy and coordinating the derived business initiative across functional organization and business unit boundaries. EA provides oversight to all the business initiatives within the enterprise. In the government, the equivalent position is Chief of Staff to the President. In the Military, the equivalent is the XO to the commanding officer. In commercial business, EA used to be a staff role to the COO / President - at least until IT co-opted the title and the role, turning EA into a technical design discipline. As defined by the originators of enterprise architecture over 25 years ago, EA is a business management process, communicating the strategy and coordinating the derived business initiative across functional organization and business unit boundaries. EA provides oversight to all the business initiatives within the enterprise.

In the government, the equivalent position is Chief of Staff to the President.
In the Military, the equivalent is the XO to the commanding officer.
In commercial business, EA used to be a staff role to the COO / President – at least until IT co-opted the title and the role, turning EA into a technical design discipline.

]]> By: Tom Graves » Blog Archive » Aliens, anarchists and analysts http://www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/enterprise-aliens/comment-page-1/#comment-4114 Tom Graves » Blog Archive » Aliens, anarchists and analysts Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:22:34 +0000 http://www.colin-beveridge.com/?p=2171#comment-4114 [...] ‘tweet’ on Twitter pointed me to Colin Beveridge’s post ‘Enterprise Aliens‘, on his “Trillion Dollar Bonfire” website. (Colin estimates that over the past [...] [...] ‘tweet’ on Twitter pointed me to Colin Beveridge’s post ‘Enterprise Aliens‘, on his “Trillion Dollar Bonfire” website. (Colin estimates that over the past [...]

]]> By: Mario Luis Tavares Ferreira http://www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/enterprise-aliens/comment-page-1/#comment-4094 Mario Luis Tavares Ferreira Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:52:12 +0000 http://www.colin-beveridge.com/?p=2171#comment-4094 Hi Colin, I am repeating myself, but, again, a great insight! You don’t need a new “jacket with long arms”, maybe it will be better suited to avoid the large hands of some people get in their large pockets, plenty of our money (tax payers)… Returning to EA, absolutely EA is strategy and must be aligned with the business strategy. Nowadays, we have a lot of specialists of every thing, the “old fashion” generalist is an “in extinction species”, and in my humble opinion, to get the big picture and truly understand all implications of IT, you need to have a broad vision of business, technology, trends, market, HR, and so on. “Out of the box” (thinking) is a common expression, but who truly knows, and is able to do it? Only aliens… like us… (I take the liberty to include you…) Cheers, Mario Hi Colin,

I am repeating myself, but, again, a great insight!

You don’t need a new “jacket with long arms”, maybe it will be better suited to avoid the large hands of some people get in their large pockets, plenty of our money (tax payers)…

Returning to EA, absolutely EA is strategy and must be aligned with the business strategy.

Nowadays, we have a lot of specialists of every thing, the “old fashion” generalist is an “in extinction species”, and in my humble opinion, to get the big picture and truly understand all implications of IT, you need to have a broad vision of business, technology, trends, market, HR, and so on.

“Out of the box” (thinking) is a common expression, but who truly knows, and is able to do it? Only aliens… like us… (I take the liberty to include you…)

Cheers,
Mario

]]> By: Nigel Green http://www.colin-beveridge.com/index.php/enterprise-aliens/comment-page-1/#comment-4083 Nigel Green Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:51:19 +0000 http://www.colin-beveridge.com/?p=2171#comment-4083 I suspect you may well need 'a jacket with longer arms and buckles' but if this is the case, so do I. I think you're spot on about "making sure that the enterprise is internally and externally congruent and coherent" and seeing the enterprise through a different lens. I have referred to this as 'Organisational Therapy' in the past(tongue-in-cheek - I continue to use as it winds-up Dave Snowden which is always fun! :) (Sorry Dave - love you really!)) m. I suspect you may well need ‘a jacket with longer arms and buckles’ but if this is the case, so do I. I think you’re spot on about “making sure that the enterprise is internally and externally congruent and coherent” and seeing the enterprise through a different lens. I have referred to this as ‘Organisational Therapy’ in the past(tongue-in-cheek – I continue to use as it winds-up Dave Snowden which is always fun! :) (Sorry Dave – love you really!))

m.

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