Gabriel Morgan
Sharing experience as an Enterprise Architect, Business Strategist, Business Performance Manager, Business Architect and Solution Architect. Twitter:@Gabriel_Morgan
Mastering Strategic Planning Through Concepts
Chess Grandmasters master the application of concepts and apply them to situations. I study chess...
Date: 11/12/2013
Inspiration As A Strategy
As you may have heard, Forbes magazine published their America's Top 25 Most Inspiring Companies...
Date: 10/07/2013
Engineer strategic planning to align your company. Don't reverse-engineer another company's strategic plan.
My engineering background encourages me automate processes. My architect experience encourages me to...
Date: 10/07/2013
The Business Architect, Business Performance Manager, Business Strategy Manager, Business Planner Job Description
I’ve written several job descriptions for Business Architect, Business Performance Manager,...
Date: 08/19/2013
Top Strategy and Planning Lessons Learned
I’ve spent a few years designing and facilitating strategy and planning processes (aka...
Date: 07/30/2013
The Big 8 Business Objectives
Welcome to financial year 2014! Whew! July marks the new financial year and for some of us, the end...
Date: 07/19/2013
Business Performance Management, the next big thing…again
We all possess the gene to want to solve problems when faced with them. It’s human nature....
Date: 11/18/2012
The Planning Paradox
One of my uncle’s favorite jokes goes like this: Greg: “Hey Gabriel, say to me ‘what’s the most...
Date: 11/14/2012
Business Architect Skills Assessment
Six years ago I posted a blog article called Solution Architect Skills Idea. At the time, I was a...
Date: 11/12/2012
How do you reward failure?
I was a participant in a recent survey facilitated by the Corporate Executive Board’s...
Date: 07/23/2012
Enterprise Architecture: First stop, Building Architecture, then on to a Science!
The Building Architecture industry is frustrated with IT Architecture. There is so much interest...
Date: 07/15/2012
IT Organizations, like any Business Support Organization, Deliver Business Value
As one traverses organizations in a company, the further you get from a business group responsible...
Date: 07/09/2012
Business Architecture is Business Performance Management with Engineering Rigor
I’ve been performing a Business Architect role within the Enterprise Architecture function...
Date: 06/26/2012
Strategically Federating IT
IT must rethink how to deliver on its promise to enable the business. IT-centric efforts are falling...
Date: 06/09/2011
Strategy and Planning Service as an Enterprise Architecture Offering
As mentioned in a previous post, I announced that our Enterprise Architecture team has made some...
Date: 02/03/2011
Effective Enterprise Roadmaps are designed to make change and track ‘effect’
I’ve come to some interesting conclusions regarding Roadmaps that I thought might be...
Date: 02/01/2011
A Breakthrough: Maturing EA to be a Catalyst to Transform the Company
It’s time to rethink enterprise architecture people. Well, at least here in Microsoft IT’s...
Date: 07/28/2010
Be GREAT !
Do you ever find yourself in the situation where you can be of help in several very different...
Date: 07/15/2010
Managing MSIT’s Enterprise Platform Portfolio
I have the fortunate opportunity to manage the Enterprise Platform portfolio for Microsoft IT and...
Date: 04/20/2010
Positive and Negative behaviors to look out for in Enterprise Architects
I’ve been fortunate to be in a position as a trusted advisor assess individuals during...
Date: 03/29/2010
Service Provider Paradigm Shift for Enterprise Architecture Teams
I recently had the opportunity to share an idea with a group of enterprise-level Architects and...
Date: 03/29/2010
Business Software Platforms are not Strategic
I want to share an idea that occurred to me and some of my colleagues, Dave Langer in particular,...
Date: 08/04/2009
Inappropriately comparing Building Architecture and Software Architecture
Mike Walker wrote a great little article describing that it is largely inappropriate to compare...
Date: 03/02/2009
Valuing the Undervalued Solution Model
Modeling helps improve the success of delivering a high-quality solution A primary responsibility of...
Date: 06/28/2008
Tips for gaining adoption
I began writing a quick response to Erik’s question in this blog about Architect’s high-order bit is...
Date: 06/06/2008
SaaS Service Offerings redefine what's in a product
As I continue my work on my little nook of Microsoft's S+S business strategy, the team I work with...
Date: 01/29/2008
Customer 2.0 is here and she has a major impact on business models and system architecture
One of the major tasks on my plate is understanding the impact of business systems to support the...
Date: 11/18/2007
SWABOK, Archipedia, Uber Architecture Framework, xyz?
Nick Malik wrote blog post "The culture of art vs. the culture of engineering" that described the...
Date: 10/09/2007
Service Delivery Platform (SDP) for the Enterprise
I'm noticing a lot of great improvements in Enterprise Architecture Frameworks, namely FEAF, TOGAF,...
Date: 09/28/2007
Adoption, rather than Architecture, is the high order bit for Architects
Over the years I've noticed a strange phenomenon, sometimes the most logical decision isn't the...
Date: 09/26/2007
Enterprise Architect vs Solution Architect
What exactly is an Enterprise Architect versus a Solution Architect? I'd like to chat about the...
Date: 09/02/2007
Skills from different experiences - Well rounded is King
I currently sit in Microsoft IT and get to share experiences and learn with some of the most...
Date: 08/31/2007
Enterprise Architecture Mapping Artifacts - They are very powerful so be very, very careful
I wrote a blog (found here) describing the relationship from Business Strategy to other Business...
Date: 08/16/2007
Traceability from Biz Strategy to Application to Data to Hardware...
Recently, I’ve had a number of conversations with folks regarding concepts at the enterprise-level...
Date: 07/31/2007
Business analysis for 'Consuming' SaaS Services
In a previous blog, I posted some considerations to assist analyzing a business for opportunities to...
Date: 07/19/2007
Business analysis for 'Providing' SaaS Services
Should a business offer a SaaS product? Hmmm, I think it might if all the right peices are there....
Date: 07/18/2007
Top-down, Bottom-up...but what is the 'Middle'?
There was a recent conversation between several folks on the topic of what Top-down is versus what...
Date: 07/13/2007
SaaS is not just SOA, S+S and Web 2.0
Microsoft has defined SaaS as "Software deployed as a hosted service and accessed over the...
Date: 07/06/2007
'Capability' - the micro-trendy word on its way to failure unless...
Is it just me or is the word ‘capability’ becoming a micro-trendy word and losing its meaning? I...
Date: 03/31/2007
Implementing System Quality Attributes
I recently participated in an IASA initiative to document skills needed by Software Architects. I...
Date: 03/20/2007
Successful enterprise systems that deliver Agility
Another idea to improve system quality … I’ve contributed to the delivery of several enterprise...
Date: 11/02/2006
Solution Architect Skills Assessment Idea
I’d like to talk about another idea I have for improving system architecture which is growing...
Date: 10/20/2006
System Design Process thought...
I wanted to follow up a note I mentioned in a previous blog I wrote on how to Manage System Quality...
Date: 10/12/2006
System Quality Attribute Plan
There are several things that architects do when building and delivering solutions but one of the...
Date: 10/03/2006
Design for Flexibility
First of all, let’s level set on the definition of system Flexibility. I quite like M. Barbacci’s...
Date: 10/03/2006