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Make Architecture More Valuable: Take on At-Risk & High-Risk Initiatives

Enterprise architecture organizations routinely struggle to demonstrate their value to C-level leadership. They govern, advise, and review---but rarely own. This article argues for a deliberate structural solution: a dedicated practice within the architecture organization whose explicit mandate is to engage at-risk and high-risk initiatives, take accountability for architectural outcomes, and put architecture visibly in the path of the most consequential delivery work in the enterprise. Done well, this is not just a delivery mechanism. It is the fastest and most durable path to making architecture indispensable at the executive level.

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What You Don't Know About Your Own Enterprise Is Costing You: Understanding Why Enterprise Inventories Are Critical Assets

Enterprise inventories are not an IT record-keeping exercise --- they are the foundation of informed executive decision-making. Without accurate, complete, and relationship-rich inventories, organizations manage their most consequential technology assets by approximation and assumption. This article catalogs the inventory types that together form the Enterprise Model, explains what each enables, and makes the case for why their accuracy is directly tied to an organization's ability to manage cost, risk, quality, and strategic direction.

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Enterprise Capabilities Models (ECMs) as a Knowledge Management Tools

Enterprise Capability Models (ECMs) are often used for enterprise architecture models for the purposes of binding or relating different constructs together. However, for those who understand ECMs, there value can be much greater to an organization.

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Data Compilation and Data-Driven Synthesis

NOUNZ is a data compiler I designed and built to research and verify the use of a paradigm called *Data Driven Synthesis (DDS)* for the generation of large-volume data graphs. This included comprehensive richly described nodes and massive quantities of reified 5-tuple relationships. The effort was so successful that the compiler was expanded to automatically build (i.e., *synthesize*) other important data, information, and knowledge management constructs like massive static websites, taxonomies, ontologies, data fabrics, and much more.

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The Persistence Polyglot for Tiny Data and Big Data

Data storage used to be expensive and complicated. Now, as storage becomes more affordable, persistence polyglots are become a viable option for handling different data structures and quantities.

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Why Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture Practices Often Fail

When budgets tighten, Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture practices are often some of the first organizations to get axed. This article helps understand why architecture practices are often the first to go and offers some best practices that can help justify the existence for architects.

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THE IF4IT NOUNZ Data Compiler

IF4IT NOUNZ is a data compiler that uses the concept of *Data Driven Synthesis (DDS)* to automatically build (i.e., *synthesize*) other important data, information, and knowledge management constructs like reified relationship tuples, massive static websites, taxonomies, ontologies, and much more.

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