Below is a repackaged copy of my “Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments” presentation that I gave at EDUCAUSE Mid-West Regional Conference 2008. It is packaged as a Quicktime Movie.
Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments

Jason Uppal of Quickresponse gave a talk on Building Enterprise Architects at the Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Summit. He mentioned that Toyota judges project success based on
three corporate objectives:
Profit from the Program
Market Share
Learning
These facets got me thinking about our post project reviews. We tend to measure our projects on whether or not [...]

I just discovered that there are several twitter feeds for the New York Times. These feeds include a main New York Times feed at
http://twitter.com/nytimes

along with several specific feeds:

NYT Business - http://twitter.com/nyt_biz
NYT Food - http://twitter.com/nyt_food
NYT Metro - http://twitter.com/nyt_metro
NYT World - http://twitter.com/nyt_world
and about a dozen more.

You can find most of them by going [...]

Several speakers this afternoon.
Seven Traits of Effective Enterprise Architecture (EA)
Speaker number 1: Mark Denne, Partner, Accenture
Business Alignment - Must define its value in terms of the business measured in the business’ currency. You must show that there are savings when you do EA.

The panel is reitteratng that you cannot buy SOA in a box. It is an architecture, a long term process and transformation of the enterprise. It is beyond the scope and capability of the I.T. folks but really has to come from business leaders - the C-Level executives.
What impact with the economic downturn [...]

David Linthicum of Zapthink is speaking. http://theopengroup.org/sf2008/linthicum.html
Conference materials live at http://www.opengroup.org/conference-live
David Linthicum wrote, “Enterprise Application Integration”
Dysfunctional architectures that are currently deployed have led to enterprise that are locked up and unable to really improve because of the complexity. The activities ahave all be driven by tactical needs not strategic needs.
Enterprise Architecture are raising [...]

From the Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in San Francisco.
I had breakfast with David Jackson from Boston university. David is working on building a consortium of business schools who will offer something like an Executive Master’s of Enterprise Architecture degree. This would be similar to Executive MBA programs in that students would [...]

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some time ago, I was on the circuit talking about Service Oriented Architecture and a roadmap for moving forward. Since then, we have had many false starts and hit many snags along the path. [...]

ITANA’s Constituent Group meeting was on Thursday at 4:55PM. Approximately 40 people attended the meeting. Many of the attendees were from newly formed architecture groups.
The notes from the meeting are posted on the ITANA.org web site: EDUCAUSE 2007 CG Meeting Notes

My slides are posted on the EDUCAUSE Annual Meeting Site: IT Architects Session
EDUCAUSE, ITANA, Jim [...]

The Gartner Group describes Enterprise Architecture as:

“The EA group will translate business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change by creating, communicating and improving the key principles and models that describe the enterprise’s future state and enable its evolution.”

The statement that caught my eye was “models that describe the enterprise’s future state”. Keith and I [...]