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Johan - Interesting thought, but looking at the ...

2011-02-22T15:07:36.604-06:00

Johan -

Interesting thought, but looking at the granularity of knowledge management, I think EA falls more in the Planning bucket. All of the strategy development frameworks (value chains, goals/objectives, strategy narratives, etc.) have one thing in common - they assume that their results can be easily translated into action. So they suffer from either the forest or the trees - either stop at a level of granularity that is decoupled from reality (to produce something quickly) or get so bogged down in detail that result is hopelessly outdated by the time it's produced.

Problem is, while action without planning is furtive and ultimately futile, action with bad planning can actually be counterproductive. To be fair, executive management has to presume that their strategies should succeed. So capabilities driven planning methods like ours are trying to address the gap between expectations and reality.

Regards,

AAB

Could it that "Enterprise Architecture" ...

2011-02-22T13:40:01.074-06:00

Could it that "Enterprise Architecture" is Misnamed? Looking back on efforts initiated under the umbrella of enterprise architecture (driven by TOGAF or other EA development frameworks) my work products are often in-distinguishable from strategy development (and implementation). Will EA commoditize into Strategy Development? Business management knows why a strategy is needed. Is the essential work within EA (the kind of work that business tends to understand, appreciate and consume) plain, old fashioned strategy development?

Hi, looking forward to reading details on each of ...

2011-02-19T10:01:34.746-06:00

Hi, looking forward to reading details on each of these thought starters--very interesting and timely perspective of EA!

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