Blue Sky to Ground part 1
Posted in Academia, Enterprise Architecture, Featured, JimPhelps, Work on 23 January 2009

 
 
I’ve been working with our CIO on the I.T. strategic planning initiative.  At the same time, I’ve been working with the Technical Directors and Operational Directors on planning at the technology level.  They have been creating a map of what technologies are used to support our services.  I’ve had my head in the blue sky [...]

Brick Diagrams and related planning tools
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, Featured, Presentations, Work on 7 November 2008

 
Brick diagrams are a strategic planning tool that I mentioned in passing in my ITANA talk at EDUCAUSE.  Since then, I’ve had several people ask for more information.  So here it is… more information.
 
Brick Diagrams are used by NIH in their Enterprise Architecture planning process.  You can see the NIH brick diagrams and their taxonomy [...]