5 Digital Enterprise Architecture strategies to establish your company’s competitive edge

It’s no secret that Amazon, or some other digitally-adept organisation (but most likely Amazon), will sooner or later attempt to take over your industry. Here’s how to stay ahead of the curve.

Some time ago, I wrote What is Digital Architecture Anyway? As a continuation of that article, also as apparently I am not very creative in finding new topics, I would like to focus on Digital Enterprise Architecture this time.

A Digital Enterprise Architecture is crucial, especially for large-size enterprises to…

5 Ways to Successfully Fail Digital Transformation

As with every new technology evolution, there is also an abundance of content on how some large organisations tried digital transformation and failed spectacularly.

It is nearly impossible not coming across an article or a post about digital transformation on any given day. I can at least guarantee you have seen one today.

Considering the profundity of digital, the abundance of content on digital transformation must be expected. I think all industries, governments and…

6 Superpowers of a Technology Architect

Every profession requires special skills which make an individual best or mediocre in that field. If you are a superhero, flying without engines, seeing behind the walls or firing laser beams off your eyes would certainly make you a favourite amongst the others.

Having spent close to two decades in…

What is Digital Architecture Anyway?

Best way to secure funding for your project is to put the word Digital somewhere into the name of it.

Those were the words I heard from a IT executive pretty much summarising the way IT industry reacts to Digital today. …

Learning magic from the “real” architects

Designing something from an idea or as in many cases from a problem that needs to be solved is surely an exciting but not always an easy process. We architects have to make sure we design the best possible solution, meeting all the business requirements while adhering to global and…

Digital Thinking

Digital is big. It is not only big in the size of the hype it created but also big in its breadth and impact. It has become the code name for anything mixing the latest in technology with dazzling customer experience. …

Surviving Bimodal IT

Bimodal IT has lately become one of the hottest topics in the IT. In fact, if this is the first time you are hearing about Bimodal IT, you are more than a year late to the discussion.

I, on the other hand, see myself at the same distance to both…

What are Reference Architectures?

This is not a blog post about an emerging technology or a hot off the press IT trend, but just some notes about one of the pillars of every successful architecture work: Reference Architectures. …

The Return of the Digital

As the world history repeats itself, we also see the technology repeating itself in various ways. I remember presenting an über cool, AJAX-based application development solution to customers back in 2006. I was telling how it was different to traditional web applications that it was just updating the fragments on…

It’s no secret that Amazon, or some other digitally-adept organisation (but most likely Amazon), will sooner or later attempt to take over your industry. Here’s how to stay ahead of the curve.

As with every new technology evolution, there is also an abundance of content on how some large organisations tried digital transformation and failed spectacularly.

Mehmet Akyuz