Enterprise Architecture

Some notes on NOTES

What is a narrative-oriented approach to enterprise-transformation? Why use it, and where, and how? And where did all this NOTES stuff come from, anyway? NOTES is, I admit, a somewhat-forced acronym for a way to look at business-change: Narrative-Oriented Transformation of Enterprise (and) Services.…

Enterprise Architecture – Shaping business operations.

An Enterprise Architecture gives its user the opportunity of exploring the business from end-to-end. Instead of only having a ‘blinkered’ or ‘narrow’ view of only isolated parts of the business the user is able to gain a holistic perspective. The ‘big picture’…

Enterprise Architecture – Enabling Business Maturity

An Enterprise Architecture supports the ability perceive the business holistically by providing an end-to-end view of its multiple dimensions. An Enterprise Architecture provides visibility of What the business does. Why is does it. How it does it. How well it does it.…

Farewell, Journal

The May number of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture is now available to AEA members. This number contains a good blend of fine articles: Editor’s Corner: John Gøtze Architect in the Spotlight: Chris Bird Towards Enterprise Architecture-Infused Organizations By Bjorn Cumps, Stijn Viaene, Pascal…

NOTES – putting it into practice

How do we use an narrative approach in enterprise-transformation? What’s different about it, in real-world practice? How does it work? In the first post in this series, I introduced the core ideas for NOTES – Narrative-Oriented Transformation of Enterprise (and) Services –…

NOTES – an alternative approach for EA

If – as we’re often told – business-design is about the relationships between people, process and technology, what is it that links all of themes together? Answer: a story. Okay, yes, this is a theme I’ve explored a lot here on this blog…

What is Business Architecture? Part 2

By Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group I recently wrote that I had heard and read the opinions of a number of people about what is Business Architecture, as I am sure many of us have but I wanted to…

Enterprise Architecture – managing competing forces

There is probably no time when there are not competing forces influencing the direction in which a business travels and how it operates. The response that a business makes to these competing influences is a measure of its maturity. When establishing a…

Enterprise Architecture – What it is not.

It is extremely tempting when designing the framework supporting an Enterprise Architecture to embed functionality that requires the inclusion of so much detail that it makes its application within the business nonviable. An Enterprise Architecture, when used effectively, supports the establishment of…

Enterprise Architecture – Needing Governance and Compliance

A structured framework into which business information and knowledge can be dropped only provides only one of the foundational elements required of an Enterprise Architecture. An Enterprise Architecture Framework without content provides no business no value. It must be populated. Architecture content…

Enterprise Architecture – Supporting Innovation

Businesses, in order to thrive, must constantly innovate. Subject to drivers from both external and internal sources, the need to change may only be apparent where sufficiently good business intelligence is available. . Managing the direction of change, without good information available,…
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