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recrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary Contribution of Your Enterprise Architects

By : Chris Potts
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recrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary Contribution of Your Enterprise Architects

By: Chris Potts

Overview of this book

Enterprise architecture is an organization’s ultimate backbone that applies calculated planning methodologies to design, analyze, plan, and implement business strategies. recrEAtion offers instructions through the vehicle of a business novel wherein our protagonist, Simon, joins an organization in New York as their first-ever Vice President of Enterprise Architecture. He meets the CTO and CEO of the company on his very first day, and their conversation takes a very unexpected turn. What follows is Simon’s journey across the globe where he deciphers the true meaning of EA. As you go through the chapters, you will learn the two key goals of EA—improving business performance and establishing a flexible mechanism—reinforced through various observations during Simon’s journeys. You will derive conclusions through analysis to facilitate the efficiency of industrial operations and see that enterprise architecture needs to be more about the business, and less about sophisticated IT diagrams and 5-year plans. By the end of this book, you will understand the challenges that EA’s face and have the skills to deal with them in a constrained time frame.
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Preface
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1
ONE
ONE
2
New York City, USA
3
TWO
TWO
4
Toronto, Canada
5
THREE
6
New York City, USA
7
FOUR
8
Travelling to Tokyo
9
FIVE
10
Tokyo, Japan
11
SIX
SIX
12
Thin Air
13
SEVEN
14
Back in New York City, USA
15
EIGHT
16
Sydney, Australia
17
NINE
18
Hong Kong, China
19
TEN
TEN
20
Paris, France
21
ELEVEN
22
Abu Dhabi, UAE
23
TWELVE
24
Toronto, Canada
25
THIRTEEN
26
New York City, USA
27
FOURTEEN
28
Home…..?

Home…..?

I grew up in London. For that reason, above all others, it will always be home. My mother still lived there, so I made sure I visited her as soon as I arrived.

“How are you getting on in America?” she asked.

“Just fine, Mother. Thank you for asking. The people there are very kind and they have just sent me on a journey that took me to Australia and back, via Hong Kong, Paris and Abu Dhabi.”

“Have you met any nice young ladies?”

“Really, Mother! But, yes, I have met some nice young ladies.”

“That’s good. Why are you in London, apart from coming to see me, of course?”

“I am here to meet someone I used to work for. I think he has lined up a new job for me over here.”

“That would be nice, Simon, to have you back home where I can see you more often.”

Ian Taylor had arranged to meet me in, of all places, the Hard Rock Café near Hyde Park – the very one that my brother...