Buy My Book!
Tweeted Wisdom
Load MoreA homework assignment for people who think the United States is a "bully" for using tariffs:
Pick a random country. Any country.
Then, go to your favorite LLM and type in "what tariffs does (country of choice) have in place?"
Proceed to be enlightened, and then shut up.What is the truth about alcohol consumption
The OG Tabasco Hot and Spicy @cheezit is objectively the greatest flavor of cheez-it ever. It isn't even a discussion. @CitrusBowl @DustyDvoracek
Consultants Saying Things- Episode 84: The One About Business Architecture: Where Do We Go?
- Episode 83: The 2025 Christmas Special
- Episode 82: The One About AI Coming for Advisory Consulting Jobs
- Episode 81: The One About Selling Architecture Consulting (live!)
- Episode 80: The One About Why Whynde and Chris Got Into Consulting
- Episode 79: The One About Enterprise Architect Skills for the Future
- Episode 78: The One About Building a Career Narrative
- Episode 77: The 2024 Christmas Special
- E76-01: Be Empathetic to Win Business
- Episode 76: The One About Winning New Business
Metrics Archive
-
Death By Metrics
Posted on September 29, 2010 | No CommentsWe seem to measuring a lot of things lately. The sheer volume of status reports and dashboards and timelines and updates would seem to indicate we have lots of metrics being captured and reported. But I've seen firsthand how numbers are shoddily derived, over reported, incorrectly reused and re-reported and it doesn't inspire confidence. What does it mean that leadership is basing decisions on these values? -
Is Enterprise Architecture even worthwhile?
Posted on August 5, 2010 | No CommentsArchitects often struggle to articulate what they do, what the value is that they provide. Consulting firms make millions helping folks with strategies to describe, highlight and demonstrate that value. How can it be that years and years into the maturation of Enterprise Architecture we still have problems telling the business why they need us? -
The Soft Power of EA
Posted on May 14, 2010 | No CommentsWhen the demonstrable benefits of using an enterprise approach are self-evident to project teams, magic happens. There is this notion of street cred when it comes to how this stuff operates. I call this the soft power approach. It is very socially intensive. It involves a lot of time spent building relationships with project teams, business owners and segment leaders. It is all about invisible metrics.
