Microsoft Looking Like An End-Stage Company

Article from Information Week that proposes that Microsoft is lost in the PC Era and is struggling to catch up to the rest of the industry.

Microsoft Looking Like An End-Stage Company

Enterprise Architecture Centre

This looks like an excellent EA resource.  http://www.enterprisearchitecturecenter.com/

Seems to consolidate articles from a few sources (eg SOA Governance White Paper from www.soa.com) and I get the impression that the site has a significant amount of good quality content though its hard to navigate to find information.

Steer towards a more simple future

Here's a great blog post on strategic alignment from Nick Malik and would be a worthwhile read for those in the applications space.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nickmalik/archive/2010/10/21/how-to-know-if-your-application-is-strategic.aspx

This has also given me a different one sentence answer for the purpose of EA. Basically EA is here to steer towards a more simple future through the process of carve and kill! :-)

Office 365

Microsoft Rebrands Web Programs for Businesses: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wirestory?id=11920903&page=1 

Does cloud computing for office functionality make sense? If I were running a startup I think this is definitely a path I'd take so its good to have choice between Google and Microsoft.

A Framework for Assessing and Improving Enterprise Architecture Management

If you're in government and interested in EA Maturity have a look at this recent publication from US GAO.

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03584g.pdf. 

Basically defines maturity levels and a series of capabilities that should exist at each maturity level. Quite useful for RTA as we're working on our EA capability program at the moment and this provides a good and easily understood roadmap.

Architecture sites

Architecture

http://chiefarchitect.squarespace.com/ea/ Chief Architect

http://maadmob.net/donna/blog/ DonnaM on IA

http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmalik/ Inside Architecture

http://www.mikethearchitect.com/enterprise-architecture/ Mike Walker's Blog

http://www.enterprisearchitectureblog.com/ Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture

http://blogs.forrester.com/enterprise_architecture The Forrester Blog For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Strategy

http://discussionleader.harvardbusiness.org/now-new-next/ Now New Next

http://discussionleader.harvardbusiness.org/front-burner/ The Front-burner

http://discussionleader.harvardbusiness.org/davenport/ Tom Davenport - The next big thing


Mashups

http://mashable.com/ Mashable social network news