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  • Mapping the EA Ecosystem

    Mapping the EA Ecosystem

    Over the years, I have been gathering links and metadata about enterprise architecture relevant resources, books, and most recently, academic articles. I share this over at EnterpriseArchitecture.dk.

    Back in 2005, I called it my personomy. Over the years, it has become quite a large collection with over 1500 resources. I try and tidy up dead links etc. as I discover such, but I also keep adding new resources. My inclusion criteria are fairly simple: The resource must be relevant to enteprise architects, or otherwise be something I find worth including. I’m sure I could add much more than I do, and always welcome suggestions.

    I’ve come to realise that I have created a data source that I can use to map out the EA ecosystem. I have created a visualization of my data with Kumu.io:

    Presentation mode visualizations here.

     

  • Beyond IT Strategy: Digital Strategies for the 21st Century

    Call for Book Chapters

    Beyond IT Strategy: Digital Strategies for the 21st Century

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    In the 21st century, the presence of technology is ubiquitous. Computers have moved from batch processing in the back-office through word processing in the front office to being the medium that glues together organisations, supply chains, and customers. Being digital across any channel and any device sits at the core of any winning business strategy. Being the glue that connects also means that technology has moved from being a business support layer to being embedded in or even in itself constituting  business processes. The distributed nature of enterprise systems, particularly in supply chains and logistics, has drastically blurred or in many cases even removed the boundary between organisation and  ecosystem. The integration of real-time information between organisations, architectures, and their enterprise systems has significantly contributed to the rise of global supply chains. The emergence of cloud has further accelerated this integration by virtualising and consolidating enterprise systems in massive public computing utilities. Before cloud computing gained popularity, the integration of supply chains was primarily constrained by physical constraints in network and data centre capacity. Now that global organisations are co-locating their core enterprise systems in the same public cloud environments, even that boundary has been removed. Limited IT scalability is no longer an inhibitor to growth, at least not if systems are architected properly.

    The need for ‘being digital’ is what we call ‘digital’ in itself. Companies are hiring Chief Digital Officers to deliver digital roadmaps in close collaboration with business, marketing and IT. In many ways it seems that digital is reaching the level of decision-making, which IT strategies have always wanted to inform and influence: how to transform the business for the better. Where most IT strategies are more often than not a second effect or afterthought after a business strategy has been approved, digital strategies inform new and pure strategic thinking. They connect and address business, operational, marketing, and technical concerns by taking an outside-in approach starting with the customers, interactions, and channels. As a consequence, being digital is much more than sporadically adopting Twitter for processing customer complaints or publishing a smartphone app — it is about questioning and realising how one can totally transform a business model or an entire supply chain by adopting different technologies, mindsets, and processes. Here comes the need for doing digital strategy rather than orthodox IT-centric IT strategies, plans, and roadmaps.

    Beyond IT Strategy is a new book about making the shift from IT-centric to digital business. Like our previous book, we invite all interested authors to submit a chapter as part of the publication.

    The overall theme of this book is to uncover the shift from IT to digital strategies, what it means to organisations, and how to bring it into practice. Rather than the typical two-fold distinction between theory and practice adopted by most “pracademic publications”, the book is structured by key business problems, where digital strategies can help, support, and deliver better outcomes. For now, the candidate business problems are (but not limited to):

    • Changing and adjusting organisational culture and structure in the age of digital
    • Driving demand-driven supply chains in fast moving consumer goods companies
    • Omni-channel customer experience and how to connect with the customer across multiple channels, devices, and geographies
    • Monetising business capabilities by exposing business processes as a service to third party consumers
    • Reducing cost and achieving better value for money in large organisations
    • Providing better and more responsive services to citizens across multiple levels of government
    • Architecting businesses, enterprises, and IT landscapes in response to digital demand

    Apart from these candidate business problems, we are also particularly interested in contributions that explore the relationships between and contemporary challenges within digital strategy and the following themes:

    • Enterprise architecture and integration
    • IT strategy
    • Business process management/reengineering, lean, and six sigma
    • Systems science and systems thinking
    • Automation and manufacturing
    • Telco and over-the-top (OTT) business models
    • Supply chain, procurement, and logistics
    • Government and e-government

    If you are interested in contributing to the book, please get in touch via e-mail (anders AT jensenwaud DOT com) or connect with Anders and John.

  • Beyond Alignment Book

    frontcover-201x300I am pleased to announce that our new book, Beyond Alignment: Applying Systems Thinking in Architecting Enterprises (ISBN 9781848901162) is now available via Amazon.com, and should be available internationally any day now.

    The book is a comprehensive reader about how enterprises can apply systems thinking in their enterprise architecture practice, for business transformation and for strategic execution. The book’s contributors find that systems thinking is a valuable way of thinking about the viable enterprise and how to architect it. The contributions to the book have been collected over the past couple of years and continuously been edited by authors and editors. As the Danish poet Piet Hein said, T.T.T., Things Take Time (Ting Tager Tid). We hope you will enjoy the result.

     

  • Right Sourcing. Right Now.

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    Right Sourcing: Enabling Collaboration is now available for ordering from the publisher (US, UK).

    The book puts forward the proposal that the modern enterprise must fundamentally rethink its ‘sourcing equation’ to become or remain viable. By presenting perspectives on sourcing from 21 different contributors, the editors hope to enable and inspire readers to make better-informed decisions.

    “Sourcing is a business theme which gets more and more attention. But making the right decisions is not easy. Sourcing is a wicked problem. This book provides valuable insights and concepts that will help to improve decisions with regard to sourcing. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to achieve right sourcing.”
    Martin van den Berg
    Enterprise Architect, Co-Founder of DYA and author of several books, including “Dynamic Enterprise Architecture: How to Make It Work”.

    “Sourcing is becoming an increasingly complex task – one that requires fundamental changes in management thinking, radical new ways in which to communicate and deal with knowledge, and a totally new and different view of all the stakeholders. In this book leading thinkers in this space, do a great job in opening up the reader’s mind to possibilities for alternative solutions that integrate the human aspects in everything we do.”
    François Gossieaux
    Co-President Human 1.0 and author of “The Hyper-Social Organization”

    “What most impressed me about this book is the scope of it’s coverage, and the level of academic rigor behind the analysis. The broad scope makes this relevant to senior executives concerned with strategy, operational executives accountable for results, and technologist on the ground. The academic rigor gives me confidence that the findings and recommendations are sound. This book will be the reference guide for anyone seriously involved in strategic sourcing.”
    R. Lemuel Lasher
    Global Chief Innovation Officer, CSC

    “Thought provoking, occasionally frustrating and timely! As the theory of the firm is “tested” with evolving technology and globalization driving down transaction costs and enabling greater connectivity we’re presented with many different possibilities for business operating models. By exploring the perspectives of organization, economics, technology and people this book provides the reader with a compendium of theory, ideas and practical tips on “Right Sourcing” the business of IT and enabling different business models. The slightly idiosyncratic nature of a book with contributions from different authors only serves to engage the reader in the discussion. I hope the editors find a way to continue this discussion beyond the book!”
    Adrian Apthorp
    Head of Enterprise Architecture, DHL Express Europe

    “The pursuit of sustainable development is one of the greatest challenges of our time. For this to succeed we must transform our current linear economy to a circular one. This calls for better coordination and collaboration between all players in product chains. Right-sourcing people, products and services is becoming an increasingly important topic therefore. This book provides the reader valuable insights and food for thought on right sourcing and collaboration.”
    Prof. Dr. H.H.F. Wijffels
    Utrecht Sustainability Institute (USI), University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

  • EA Voices as a Book

    There is an Easter Egg over at EA Voices.

    eavoicesbigFrom EA Voices: The Book:

    Dear EA bloggers,

    Thanks to you, EA Voices is a great source of enterprise architecture wisdom. Now aggregating blogs and writings by over 100 bloggers, the database is rounding 2 million words, and grows with around 100 posts monthly.

    I think all this wisdom deserves even more attention than the website and apps can offer, and want to put EA Voices in print in the form of a book. I will publish the book, so it’ll be available on Amazon etc (print and digital).

    I therefore invite you all to dig in your own blog archives, including all those drafts I know you sit on, and write up a chapter/essay for the book.

    1. What theme? As long as it is something of relevance to enterprise architecture, it’s up to you! When we gather the troops some themes may well flesh out.
    2. Target group? The primary target group is the enterprise architecture community, including aspiring architects, but possibly also others, such as CxOs.
    3. Number of words? Well, up to you, but I suggest shorter essay-ish chapters, so maybe around 2500 words?
    4. By when? Soon. Let’s get this thing out sooner than later! How about submission by 1st May?

    Want to contribute? Sign up here.

    Who can participate? Anyone with a blog that EA Voices indexes. If your blog is not yet in EA Voices, send me a link to it’s feed and I’ll include it. If you don’t have a blog at all yet, just create one at the numerous service out there (wordpress.com etc), and send me the link to its feed. If you don’t want to have a blog, but want to have an EA Voice in the book, just sign up and we will find a solution :-)

    I suggest we use the hashtag #eavoices in open communications about the book.

    I hope the bloggers will be interested.

     

  • Potts in Copenhagen


    Chris Potts will return to Denmark on 24-25 January 2013 to give an exclusive seminar: Driving Business Innovation & Performance With Enterprise Architecture: How to be a Highly-Influential Enterprise Architect.

    Chris Potts has just published the last book in his trilogy of business novels: “FruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology”, “RecrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary Contribution of Your Enterprise Architects”, and now ”DefrICtion: Unleashing Your Enterprise to Create Value from Change”.

    This seminar is designed for Enterprise Architects and the people they work with, to explore how best to make Enterprise Architecture a highly-valued innovative and influential business discipline. At its core, this means integrating formalised Enterprise Architecture with corporate and business strategies, business planning, and the process of creating value from investments in change.

  • Enterprise Architecture for Connected E-Government

    Got anything to say about the relationship between government EA and connected government- Consider submitting a chapter!

    Call for Chapters

    Proposal Submission: 15th February 2011
    Full Chapter Submission: 15th May 2011

    Enterprise Architecture for Connected E-Government: Practices and Innovations

    A Book Edited by Chief Editor, Dr. Pallab Saha, National University of Singapore

    INTRODUCTION

    Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the inherent design and management approach essential for organizational coherence leading to alignment, agility and assurance1. Structured EA approach is often used to plan and implement efficient and effective transformation efforts. However, the strongest driver for EA is to improve service delivery and overall performance within the organization’s business segments. Most governments worldwide are in the midst of substantial public sector transformation activities. A majority of these initiatives are triggered by the need to have better and seamless government services delivered online. The focus on automating government services often is largely limited to specific ministries and agencies. However, such initiatives lack the cross-ministry / agency viewpoints and coordination. This creates challenges in taking a Whole-of-Government (W-O-G) approach with its concomitant benefits, which are much more than benefits derived by taking agency-centric viewpoints. These shortcomings are clearly evident in the findings of the UN Global E-Government Survey 2010. According to the UN, the value of e-government will be increasingly defined by its contribution to national development. Lack of coherent strategy is often cited as the primary reason for under-development of e-government. Moving forward, more and more countries are adopting national e-government strategies and multi-year action plans, and EA is the strategy that governments are increasingly looking toward.

    The United Nations (UN), in its Global E-government Survey of 2008, used connected governance as its primary criteria by which to evaluate and rank national e-government programs. According to the survey report, the concept of connected government is derived from the W-O-g approach which utilizes technology as a strategic tool and enabler for public service innovation and productivity growth, the two key outcomes being innovation and productivity. Government transformation is a long term endeavor that is seldom impacted by any short term technology trends. In their transition toward connected government, all governments typically traverse through the four primary stages of e-government capability and maturity, each stage representing a progressively higher level in the government transformation continuum. EA is a critical success factor for all types, scale and intensities of e-government programs. The key goal of EA in government organizations is to make them citizen-centered, results-oriented and market-based. Governments usually pass through different evolutionary stages in their EA journeys. The MIT Center for Information Systems Research identifies four such evolutionary stages; business silos, standardized technology, rationalized data and applications and business modularity. Interestingly, there exists a positive correlation between the desired level of e-government capability and maturity and the required level of architectural maturity.

    OBJECTIVES

    This book addresses the gap in current literature in terms of linking and understanding the relationship between e-government and government EA. Within this broader context, the focus is specifically on uncovering and comprehending the relationship between government EA and connected government. The primary reason for focusing on connected government is that it is the area where government EA has the highest potential to influence and as a result the highest levels of benefits derivation. With the intention of balancing theory and practice, this book aims to:

    1. Demonstrate and disseminate the importance of government enterprise architecture in elevating the effectiveness of e-government programs.
    2. Capture and bring forth the current advancements and thought leadership in the area of enterprise architecture in the context of connected government.
    3. Provide national e-government initiatives with evidence-based, credible, field tested and practical guidance in crafting their respective architectures.
    4. Showcase case studies and experience reports of innovative use of enterprise architecture in enhancing national e-government initiatives.

    INTENDED AUDIENCE AND POTENTIAL USES

    1. Government CIOs, IT/IS Managers, Chief Architects, Analysts and Designers seeking better, quicker and easier approaches to respond to needs of their internal and external customers.
    2. Line-of-Business Managers concerned with maximizing business value of IT and business competitiveness.
    3. CTOs of business software companies interested in incorporating government EA to differentiate their products and services offerings and increasing the value proposition to their customers.
    4. Consultants and practitioners desirous of new solutions and technologies to improve the productivity of their government clients.
    5. Business management, public policy and IS management educators interested in imparting knowledge about this vital discipline.
    6. Academic and consulting researchers looking to uncover and characterize new research problems and programs.
    7. E-government professionals involved with organizational technology strategic planning, technology procurement, management of technology projects, consulting and advising on technology issues and management of total cost of IT ownership.

    RECOMMENDED TOPICS AND THEMES

    In the context of connected government the book intends to include, but is not limited to, chapters in the following broad topics and themes:

    1. Government EA for compliance, complexity, innovation and coherency.
    2. EA and portfolio management, public sector governance, government performance, investment management.
    3. Economic value and impact of connected government.
    4. Frameworks, reference models, methodologies, languages, tools and other supporting aspects of government EA.
    5. Future of EA and its role in the government.
    6. Government 2.0.
    7. Government EA in countries with initial levels of e-government capability and maturity.
    8. Government interoperability.
    9. Government service innovation.
    10. Government transformation and modernization, public sector reforms.
    11. Open data initiative.
    12. Policies, regulations and mandates for driving government enterprise architecture programs.
    13. Public private partnerships with EA.
    14. Segment architecture (e.g. healthcare, defense, education, disaster management, manufacturing, transportation and services).
    15. Strategic (systems) thinking in the public sector.
    16. Transparent and open government.
    17. Whole of government EA (with emphasis on multi-layered federated structure of government).

    SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

    Academic Researchers and Senior Industry Practitioners are invited to submit no later than 15th February, 2011, a two paragraph proposal briefly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 15th March, 2011 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational and submission guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by 15th May, 2011. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

    PUBLISHER

    This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2012.

    IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES

    15th February 2011: Proposal Submission Deadline

    15th March 2011: Notification of Proposal Acceptance

    15th May 2011: Full Chapter Submission

    15th August 2011: Notification of Chapter Acceptance along with Review Comments

    15th September 2011: Final Chapter Submission along with signed Copyright Agreement

    15th October 2011: Final Deadline

    EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

    The Chief Editor will be advised and supported by an Editorial Advisory Board (EAB), consisting of leading specialized experts from the academia and industry. The current members of the EAB include:

    1. Dr. Scott Bernard, Federal Chief Enterprise Architect, Office of E-government and Information Technology, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, AND Professor of Practice, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
    2. Prof. Terry Buss, Executive Director and Distinguished Professor, Heinz College of Public Policy and Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / AUSTRALIA.
    3. Dr. Saleem Zoughbi, Regional Adviser, Information and Communication Technology, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, UNITED NATIONS.
    4. Prof. Jukka Heikkilä, Vice Dean, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, FINLAND.
    5. Dr. John Gøtze, Chief Editor, The Open Group Journal of Enterprise Architecture AND Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen, DENMARK.
    6. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Habil. Jorge Marx Gómez, Chair of Business Information Systems, Department für Informatik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, GERMANY.
    7. Prof. John Mo, Discipline Head, Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, RMIT University, AUSTRALIA.
    8. Dr. Andrzej Sobczak, Consulting Enterprise Architect to the Government of Poland, Warsaw School of Economics, POLAND.

    Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically by e-mail to:

    Dr. Pallab Saha

    National University of Singapore
    Institute of Systems Science
    25 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
    Singapore 119615

    Telephone (DID): +65 6516 2516 | Facsimile: +65 6778 2571

    E-Mail: pallab@nus.edu.sg

    About the Chief Editor: Dr. Pallab Saha is with the National University of Singapore (NUS). His current research, consulting and teaching interests include Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Governance. Dr. Saha has published three books, Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice; Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture; and Coherency Management–Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance. His books are widely referred by practitioners and researchers around the world, making it to the Top Seller list in 2008 and 2009. His papers have been translated and published in Korean, Russian and Polish.

    Dr. Saha is the primary author of the Methodology for AGency ENTerprise Architecture (MAGENTA) and Government EA Guidebook for the Government of Singapore and has led them to international prominence. They are available in IDS Scheer’s ARIS Toolset. He is a recipient of the Microsoft research grant in the area of Government EA supported by the UN and the World Bank. He consults extensively both in the public and private sectors. He has provided consulting services to the Ministry of Defence, Defence Science and Technology Agency, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, Integrated Health Information Systems, IP Office of Singapore, CPF Board, Singapore Healthcare Services, Governments of Oman and Kazakhstan and Great Eastern Life Assurance among others. He has been invited as a keynote / distinguished speaker to the World Bank, Carnegie Mellon University, UN University, The Open Group, Microsoft, SAP Labs, Denmark IT Society, Korea Institute for IT Architecture, IEEE, Nanyang Business School, Governments of South Australia, Jordan, UAE, Macau, Korea, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Auditor-general’s Office of Singapore, Singapore Workforce Development Agency and Singapore Government CIO Forums among others. His work has been featured and cited by the UN, WHO, United States Department of Defense, Carlsberg and The Open Group and has contributed to the World Bank’s EA Guidelines for Vietnam. Featured as an Architect in the Spotlight by the Journal of EA he has been an external examiner for doctoral research degree to the University of New South Wales and a Visiting Researcher to the UN University.

    Earlier, as Head of Projects and Development he has managed Baxter’s offshore development centre in Bangalore. He has had engagements in several Fortune 100 organizations in various capacities. Dr. Saha holds a Ph.D in Management (Information Systems) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and has received the best research design and best thesis awards. He is an alumnus of the MIT Sloan Executive Program.

  • Sourcing It

    Together with Rien Dijkstra and Pieter van der Ploeg, I have launched a new book project: The Sourcing Initiative: Enabling Collaboration. Read more about it on the new website, sourcing-it.org. The idea is that there are a lot of issues at stake in modern enterprises:

    Our proposition is that the modern enterprise must fundamentally rethink its sourcing equation (Organization, Economics and Technology) to become or remain viable. We have dubbed this Right Sourcing.

    This is a non-profit project, and the book will be published under a Creative Commons licence and be freely available online. We will use an agile approach and release iterations as we go along.

    We seek contributors who have something to wise/clever/interesting to say about the theme(s). If you think you have and want to join us, please let us know.

  • GREENING IT

    Greening IT bookThe Greening of IT is a symptom of a much larger challenge for humankind – transitioning from economic childhood into maturity. Despite the emergence of large regional alliances such as the EC, humankind remains incredibly fragmented; and yet the need for global climate and energy policies is pressing. IT offers tantalizing technical solutions to our emissions and growth dilemma: it can grow greener and help with the greening of other industries. This book explores this potential.

    ‘Greening IT‘ is an interntionally collaborative, non-profit, creative commons licensed book dedicated to the preservation of the most important resource – planet earth itself. As the book details, our approach to preservation is not accomplished via pure environmentally focused policies, but instead by leveraging the most important and potent enabler of the Low-Carbon society – Information and Communication Technology (ICT).