Quotes from Gregor Hohpe

Evolving a widely reused resource also requires coordination because changes must be compatible with all existing systems or users. Such coordination can slow down innovation... Some digital companies have even begun to explicitly favor duplication because their business environment rewards economies of speed.

On my team we often reminded ourselves that for each task we have two goals: first, accomplish the task, but also to improve the way it's done in the future.

Enterprise architects in the cloud enterprise should depart from prescriptive roles to become cloud advocates in the boardroom and sparring partners in the engine room.

EA must help operationalize the cloud strategy. Because applications in a typical enterprise portfolio aren't equally portable to the cloud, enterprise architects should help establish the criteria and guidelines that can be used to assess an application's cloud readiness, using frameworks like FROSST.