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Frameworks and skills

Here's an interesting comment from a newsgroup "More seriously, this is an areas rife with confusing and badly understood terminology - I should know, I've been using it for a couple of decades. In context I was referring to the bits and…

Business Models: Do the right thing

This is the first post in a series on business models, innovation, implementation, cases and tools! At BiZZdesign we have a successful history of designing businesses. As a spin-off of the Dutch Telematica Instituut (currently Novay) we started as an innovative software,…

2 Enterprise Architecture Jokes

1.   How many enterprise architects does it take to define “enterprise architecture”? Answer: Well, that depends on what you mean by “enterprise architecture”. (credit: Matthew De George [comic genius] - http://www.managewithoutthem.com/knowthyshelf) 2. (Ed. - I cannot find the copyright owner of this…

Gaming the Hire Process

Allow me to apologize for the length of this narrative as I need to provide a direct quote before launching into the actual subject. Imagine a universe in which video games were invented before books. Because books would come later (i.e they…

Archi – Archimate Enterprise Architecture Modelling Tool

Archimate is an exciting modelling tool for Enterprise Architects. It's a free, Open Source, multi-platform modelling tool based on Eclipse. It is eextremely easy to install and use, it particularly useful to rapidly prototype a model when needed. Most prominent features: Free…

Open Group San Francisco (2012) – Day 1

This years Open Group Conference was held at San Francisco. Unfortunately, even if I was unable to be present at the event, I followed it closely thanks to twitter. The conference is an exciting event for all enterprise architects because it lays…

Keynes Vs. Hayek in Enterprise Architecture

A recent article that appeared in the Economist – The World in 2012 entitled “Keynes vs Hayek in China” inspired a few thoughts and questions on how similar the practice of Enterprise architecture was with the art of defining a country’s economic…

Building the Business Case For EA

Relevant, compelling, in-demand enterprise architecture is the goal of many of today's IT architecture and strategy leaders.  Yet for many organizations, the first hurdle lies in communicating the value and justifying the required resources for EA to IT and business leadership.  Join Bodhi…
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