Asset Management
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The Role of Asset Management in Enterprise Architecture
Digital technology tends to develop at a pace that many large organizations find challenging to assimilate. We’re seeing that situation in real time lately, with recent advances in generative AI. But I think cloud is a better case study for establishing asset management programs for enterprise architecture, given the wide-ranging capabilities it democratized. Plus I… Continue reading
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Asset Classification as the Foundation for Enterprise Architecture Governance
Putting an asset management model in place for enterprise architecture will provide the structure and basis for ownership needed for architecture design and governance programs. But the model has to be put in motion so that it isn’t just an intellectual exercise. It also needs to be done in a way which can be tracked… Continue reading
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Enterprise Architecture Begins Where Responsibility Is Defined
In previous articles, we examined how ITIL situates asset management within IT services and operations. That framing is useful. But it leaves a larger question unaddressed: what happens when the same discipline is applied not just to technology components, but to architecture itself? Architecture determines how technology components are assembled, constrained, and executed, which is… Continue reading
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Enterprise Architecture, ITIL, and the Architectural Role of Asset Management
ITIL, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a framework built on best practices for managing IT service delivery. It defines three types of practices: None of this obviously points to Enterprise Architecture. So why start here? Why Talk About ITIL in a Discussion of Enterprise Architecture? One possible answer is that ITIL includes something called… Continue reading