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Many enterprises suffer from a paradox.As they grow, they produce more strategies, policies, principles, repositories, dashboards, models, standards, reports, and documentation. Yet despite this increasing volume of information, they often become harder to understand.More explanation does not necessarily lead to greater understanding.The question, ...

The modern enterprise is not short of explanations.It has strategies, roadmaps, architecture models, dashboards, policies, decision records, operating models, transformation narratives, and increasingly AI-generated summaries of all of them.Yet people still struggle to answer basic questions.What actually matters? What depends on what? Which decisi...

For years, Enterprise Architecture has treated alignment as the organisational ideal. Business alignment. IT alignment. Strategic alignment. Capability alignment. Operating model alignment. But many enterprises are already experiencing something uncomfortable:They are highly aligned and still operationally fragmented.They have: governance,synchroni...

Three people leave the same strategy review. One believes the plan is feasible. One thinks it needs major revision. One is certain it will be ignored.None of them is looking at different evidence. They are holding different attitudes toward the same object.Most friction in strategy, design, and architecture work follows this pattern. A developer sa...

A developer says "we cannot do this."A director says "this is required."An architect says "this is permitted."Each statement sounds like a fact about the work. Each is actually a statement about the kind of constraint in play. And each kind requires an entirely different response.When a developer says "we cannot do this" and means it is technically...

What a systematic literature review reveals about how EA is assessed — and what is missing A peer-reviewed paper co-authored with Martin Henkel and Erik Perjons of Stockholm University — "Improving EA Evaluations Through the Work-Oriented Approach" — has been published in Springer Nature's Communications in Computer and Informatio...