April 2008
Some of our publications are now coming out in book-form - see
Enterprise Architecture at
Tetradian Books
Tom Graves' presentation to the TOGAF conference,
Enterprise architecture and the service-oriented enterprise, is now up in the knowledge-base.
March 2008
Tom Graves will be presenting at the
TOGAF Glasgow enterprise-architecture conference on 21-23 April.
He also has a chapter on "The Viable Services Model" in the forthcoming
itSMF book
Global IT Service Management Best Practices, Part 1, to be published by
Van Haren Publishing in April 2008.
January 2008
Tom Graves has a formal paper on techniques for
Stealth Foresight in large organisations, in the current (November 2007) edition of the foresight quarterly
Journal of Futures Studies, published by Tamkang University, Taiwan.
May 2007
New addition to our
enterprise-architecture tools:
How to create a Functional Business Model (164kb) - descriptive notes and Visio 2003 stencil and template
April 2007
First release of the enterprise-architecture book:
Real Enterprise-Architecture: Beyond IT to the whole enterprise (
large: 1867kb)
March 2007
A new book by Tom Graves:
Real Enterprise-Architecture: Beyond IT to the whole enterprise (
large: 2858kb) - Second draft for beta-test review only
And other new presentation (PDF of Powerpoint in Notes view) on the
Downloads page:
Whole-of-enterprise architecture: Extending enterprise-architecture beyond IT (
large: 1150kb).
Our principal consultant Tom Graves will be a presenter at the
TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioners conference in Paris on 23-25 April 2007.
February 2007
Another new presentation (PDF of Powerpoint in Notes view) on the
Downloads page:
Vision, role, mission, goal - a framework for business motivation.
January 2007
A couple of new presentations (PDFs of Powerpoint in Notes view) on the
Downloads page:
Architecture as system: Enterprise-architecture, service-architecture and the Viable System Model and
Introduction to SCORE.
New sections on
enterprise architecture and on
strategic tools and frameworks added to the site, including details on the new
VRMG and
SCORE tools.
