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Preview e-book of Everyday Enterprise Architecture (contents and sample chapters)

Preview published: April 2010

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Full title: Everyday Enterprise Architecture: sensemaking, strategy, structures and solutions

Published: April 2010

ISBN: 978-1-906681-24-1

Price: £25.00

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All of architecture comes down to one simple idea: things work better when they work together, with clarity, with elegance, on purpose. Yet how do we express that ‘one idea’ in practice, within our organisations? With what results, and for what business-value? This book describes the down-to-earth detail of everyday enterprise architecture, to show what architects actually do to deliver value fast, across the entire enterprise.

Working step by step through a real ten-day architecture-project, this book explores the activities that underpin sensemaking, strategy, structures and solutions in the real-time turmoil of an enterprise-architect’s everyday work.

Topics covered include:

• how to use enterprise-architecture to tackle executive-level business-problems
• how to develop an agile architecture practice that can keep pace with the real-time pressures of the real business world
• how to identify the business-reasons and business-value for each activity
• how to thrive on the inherent uncertainties of the architecture process
• how to use context-space maps to guide sensemaking and solution-design
• how to apply architecture ideas and activities to describe what actually happens in a real enterprise-architecture project
• how to enhance architectural skills, judgement and awareness, for continuous improvement across the enterprise and in the architecture itself

If you want your enterprise to flourish and prosper in the midst of relentless change, this is one book you’ll definitely need.

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than three decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in architecture for non-IT-centric enterprises, and integration between IT-based and non-IT-based services.

Preview e-book of Doing Enterprise Architecture (contents and sample chapters)

Preview published: April 2009

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Full title: Doing Enterprise Architecture: process and practice in the real enterprise

Published: April 2009

ISBN: 978-1-906681-18-0

Price: £25.00

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See also:

• framework reference-sheet
• methodology reference-sheet
• Visio 2003 template for Functional Business Model

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When you’re doing enterprise architecture, what should you actually do, in what sequence, for what business purpose? What skills and leadership do you need? What results should you expect? And how can you prove the business value of what you do?

For process and practice in the real enterprise, frameworks and methodologies such as TOGAF, FEAF and Zachman will all help, but it’s these practical concerns that often matter most. And that’s what this book will show you.

Topics covered include:

• how to extend existing IT-centric architecture to the whole of the enterprise
• how to identify business vision, values, structure and purpose, and include these as core anchors for your enterprise architecture
• how to map business functions, services, information-systems and process flows across the whole enterprise
• how to respond to changes in strategy, regulation, market and environment
• how to plan for business-continuity, disaster-recovery and risk-management
• how to tackle intractable ‘wicked problems’ in the business context
• how to keep maintaining and extending the agility and value of the architecture

If you want to bring your enterprise architecture practice to its full business potential, this is one book you’ll definitely need.

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for almost three decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australia and the USA cover a broad range of industries including banking, utilities, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in architecture for non-IT-centric enterprises, and integration between IT-based and non-IT-based services.