How do we handle change?

[One of a series of posts posing questions that enterprise architecture can answer] How do we handle change, whether we’re making it ourselves or it’s being imposed on us by the business environment? Change is a business constant. On any given day, a business can look...

How can we invest to business advantage?

[One of a series of posts posing questions that enterprise architecture can answer] How can we ensure that we invest time, money and resources to our best business advantage? In most businesses, it’s not a shortage of good ideas to pursue or problems to fix that is...

How do we get management conversations “on the same page”?

[One of a series of posts posing questions that enterprise architecture can answer] When we’re busy with our own little part of the world, it is sometimes difficult to notice how our colleagues in other parts of the business are getting on (or not), and easy to...

How can we improve our business design?

[One of a series of posts posing questions that enterprise architecture can answer] How can we improve our business design: how we structure, how we compete, how we manage? One of the initial tasks an enterprise architect can undertake is the discovery and...

If enterprise architecture is the answer, what was the question?

You’ve heard the term “enterprise architecture”, and maybe you’ve been told it’s something your business should be looking at. But you’re not sure what it is, or worse – you’ve heard several different (and probably conflicting)...

Are we getting value for our IT investment?

[One of a series of posts posing questions that enterprise architecture can answer] Understanding the business intent, defining the business capabilities and their boundaries and using those foundations to draw up a roadmap of projects to go from the current state to...