http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/ Janne J. Korhonen provides insights into how information technology can be applied strategically to catalyze organizational change and responsiveness. Drawing from both theory and practice, he discusses agile enterprise and its governance. en-us Copyright 2013 Sat, 04 May 2013 07:27:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I recently co-authored a journal paper [1] on Enterprise Architecture, in which we propounded that architectural work in an enterprise be designed and built around organizational accountability levels and be divided into three distinct yet interlinked architectures: Technical Architecture, Socio-Technical... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2013/05/tripartite-approach-to-enterprise-architecture.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2013/05/tripartite-approach-to-enterprise-architecture.php Sat, 04 May 2013 07:27:00 -0500 jannej In his book "How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built," Stewart Brand notes that building architectures are mainly designed from the spatial perspective, whereas the temporal dimension receives less attention. Building on the notion of Shearing layers, he states... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/12/how-information-systems-learn.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/12/how-information-systems-learn.php IS Design Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:56:00 -0500 jannej "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." This maxim, attributed to Albert Einstein, bears particular relevance to how problems should be approached. There is not a simple solution to every problem. Simple problems can be solved... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/09/there-is-not-a-simple-solution-to-every-problem.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/09/there-is-not-a-simple-solution-to-every-problem.php Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:33:00 -0500 jannej Can you feel the pace increasing? Is it hard to keep up with the speed? Is your organization too rigid, or do you feel in over your head yourself? You know you should be more agile and you may even... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/06/agility-starts-above-the-clouds.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/06/agility-starts-above-the-clouds.php Agile Organization Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:47:00 -0500 jannej "The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime..." -- The Architect, The Matrix Reloaded... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/05/out-of-box-requires-lesser-mind.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/05/out-of-box-requires-lesser-mind.php Enterprise Architecture Mon, 14 May 2012 14:33:00 -0500 jannej The agile movement has traditionally focused on agile software development at the team level. Team-based approaches, such as Scrum, focus on delivering day-to-day customer value, but do not, per se, ensure a strategic approach to business agility at the enterprise... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/03/scaling-agile-beyond-the-team.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/03/scaling-agile-beyond-the-team.php Agile Development Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:35:00 -0500 jannej In his best seller book Getting Things Done, David Allen identifies six vertically arrayed perspectives from which to define work. Using an aerospace analogy, he recognizes the following "altitudes": 50,000+ feet: Life 40,000 feet: Vision 30,000 feet: Goals 20,000 feet:... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/02/how-to-make-work-take-off.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/02/how-to-make-work-take-off.php Organizational Development Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:07:00 -0500 jannej http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/01/when-the-ground-rocks-it-must-flex.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/01/when-the-ground-rocks-it-must-flex.php Enterprise IT Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:20:36 -0500 jannej In my previous post, I expounded upon Hoebeke's (1994) notion that work is vertically organized as recursively interlinked work system domains and postulated a link between these structural domains and the ontological domains of the Cynefin framework (Kurtz and Snowden,... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/12/work-systems-and-requisite-inquiry.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/12/work-systems-and-requisite-inquiry.php Enterprise Engineering Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:53:59 -0500 jannej Work is Organized as a Holarchy of Viable Systems In his excellent book "Making Work Systems Better", Luc Hoebeke (1994) develops a work systems framework that provides an alternative to monolithic, hierarchic models of organizations. Arguing that the 'span of... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/10/taming-the-chaos-is-a-spiritual-deed.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/10/taming-the-chaos-is-a-spiritual-deed.php Enterprise Engineering Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:51:00 -0500 jannej In my previous post, I put forth the general -- and trivial -- idea that the increasing complexity of the strategic context calls for increasingly sophisticated governance models. In the following, I will further develop the notion and outline five... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/09/levels-of-governance.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/09/levels-of-governance.php Governance Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:34:33 -0500 jannej Peterson (2004) identifies three basic value drivers of IT governance: service infrastructure, solution integration and strategic innovation. In service infrastructure, the value lies in IT operations and services that are delivered with maximum reliability and availability. It focuses on standardization... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/09/it-governance-is-contingent-on-the-strategic-context.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/09/it-governance-is-contingent-on-the-strategic-context.php Governance Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:30:00 -0500 jannej In my previous post, I discussed how a system must undergo a transformation to persist and to develop. As the notion of ecosystem resilience, introduced therein, may have remained somewhat abstract and elusive, I will here attempt to exemplify systemic... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/08/organizational-transformations-changing-to-stay-the-same.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/08/organizational-transformations-changing-to-stay-the-same.php Organizational Development Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:04:03 -0500 jannej Sometimes less is too much. Inexorably, at some point, the organization or logic of a system that has worked well in the past turns out inadequate in the face of changing environmental circumstances. The inherent limits of system resilience --... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/07/when-less-is-too-much.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/07/when-less-is-too-much.php Organizational Development Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:10:15 -0500 jannej In my last two blog posts, I have outlined a five-scale classification of system views and elaborated on the systemic-structural underpinnings of each view. As these systemic views are increasingly expressive and powerful, they also call for progressively sophisticated levels... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/07/requisite-cognitive-logics-in-enterprise-architecture.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2011/07/requisite-cognitive-logics-in-enterprise-architecture.php Enterprise Engineering Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:03:15 -0500 jannej