Posts by: Adrian Campbell

Modelling Behaviour

I frequently find that there is much confusion about the modelling of Behaviour in an Enterprise Architecture model, specifically between the concepts of Business Capability, Business Function and Business Process. The various enterprise architecture glossaries all differ in their definition of these.…

Adoption of ArchiMate in the UK

I was recently asked about the adoption trend of ArchiMate. I see demand for ArchiMate support slowly increasing in the UK, but it is nowhere near the tipping point that it has already reached in the Benelux area, especially in the Netherlands…

Smart Enterprise Architecture

Organisations need a new paradigm. In order to survive, old dogs are going to have to learn new tricks.  They need to start fundamentally thinking about how to change the way in which they innovate, think and make decisions. To allow future operations…

A good decision is based on Enterprise Architecture

There are still organisations that have not yet established an Enterprise Architecture function. A simplistic and immature view of the Enterprise Architecture function is that it is only used to create a target architecture model for the IS/IT architectures that enable the…

Real Enterprise Architecture or IT Architecture?

Organisations always have an implicit architecture, but not always an explicit architecture. If they do have an explicit architecture, the chances are that it is an IT Architecture that has evolved over the course of hundreds of little decisions made by developers…

Using VPEC-T and ArchiMate

I have recently finished reading the book ‘Lost on Translation’ by Nigel Green and Carl Bate and found it a very useful and insightful. I recommend it for the shelf of any Enterprise Architect. See http://www.lithandbook.com/ The book describes the VPEC-T ‘thinking framework’…

Enterprise Architecture Strategies

I recommend you read Chris Curran’s excellent blog entry on 16 Enterprise Architecture Strategies Learned The Hard Way http://tinyurl.com/32hfj8s I’ve included his list below with my views and comments following that. 1. An exhaustive enterprise level blueprint is virtually impossible to build…
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