Enterprise architecture works best today when it borrows start-up habits — testing fast, learning quickly and scaling what actually delivers value. In an era defined by rapid innovation, shifting ...

Social networks are a hot topic in the enterprise these days, despite being only one type of network deployed in a networked business. Many individuals and companies are talking about creating a ...

In the world of real enterprises, enterprise architecture is a weak discipline. It doesn’t play a role of any real substance in most medium-large enterprises, which are exactly the enterprises that ...

Christopher Eagle is enterprise architect in the IT Systems Office of the CIO at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The best way to think about enterprise architecture is to view it as all the ...

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In my first article for Forbes, I asked whether Enterprise Architecture (EA) was completely broken. My conclusion: executives seeking digital transformations of their organizations require a more ...

Emerging tech like AI and IoT are no longer add-ons but core components, forcing architects to design holistic, integrated business ecosystems from the start. Enterprise architecture has long been the ...

"City planning" is an easily understood metaphor that architects can employ to communicate more effectively the nature and value of architecture by relating the "unseen" enterprise architecture to ...

A fundamental axiom of security is that we can never drive risk to zero. In other words, perfect security is infinitely expensive. We must therefore understand our tolerance for risk and our budget ...

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