Point solutions have in many ways over the years added to a proliferation of specialised personnel increasing the cost of product support in many cases and in extreme cases pricing organizations out of a given market. I do take your point on many companies existing on point solutions at present and without executive support for change initiatives is destined to remain for the foreseeable future.
Yeah, exactly, Robert. I do try to avoid any direct focus on enterprise-architecture in Small Changes - it's supposed to be separate from my 'day-job', after all! :-) - but this is one area where there's a direct overlap. And, of course, one that scales out to industries, standards, sociopolitical-philosophies or even whole countries as variants on the same theme of 'point-solution'. If we want to tackle the big-picture issues, the problems that can arise from misplaced point-solutions are very much concerns that we'll need to address.
The problem that we face is that IT solution in is being addressed by choosing a new shiny toy and try to fit it to organizational requirements rather than look to the requirements and apply the best technological solution.
"Here's my solution - how can I force your question to fit it?" Yeah, that kind of thing.
Again, I'm trying to keep the classic 'enterprise'-architecture arguments out of Small Changes, because I'm aiming to tackle a much larger scope and scale here, but yeah, TOGAF ADM Phase H (up to v9, anyway) not only exactly fits your point about 'selling shiny-toys', but indeed is evidently designed for exactly that purpose. Sigh...
Hi Tom,
Point solutions have in many ways over the years added to a proliferation of specialised personnel increasing the cost of product support in many cases and in extreme cases pricing organizations out of a given market. I do take your point on many companies existing on point solutions at present and without executive support for change initiatives is destined to remain for the foreseeable future.
Yeah, exactly, Robert. I do try to avoid any direct focus on enterprise-architecture in Small Changes - it's supposed to be separate from my 'day-job', after all! :-) - but this is one area where there's a direct overlap. And, of course, one that scales out to industries, standards, sociopolitical-philosophies or even whole countries as variants on the same theme of 'point-solution'. If we want to tackle the big-picture issues, the problems that can arise from misplaced point-solutions are very much concerns that we'll need to address.
The problem that we face is that IT solution in is being addressed by choosing a new shiny toy and try to fit it to organizational requirements rather than look to the requirements and apply the best technological solution.
"Here's my solution - how can I force your question to fit it?" Yeah, that kind of thing.
Again, I'm trying to keep the classic 'enterprise'-architecture arguments out of Small Changes, because I'm aiming to tackle a much larger scope and scale here, but yeah, TOGAF ADM Phase H (up to v9, anyway) not only exactly fits your point about 'selling shiny-toys', but indeed is evidently designed for exactly that purpose. Sigh...
(Or "_seems to be_ designed for exactly that purpose", anyway...)