Posts Tagged "business architecture"

Types of Cost

When planning and measuring business benefits there are three basic contributing elements: revenues, costs and intangibles. If you look for guidance on “types of cost” most sources decompose cost types in accounting terms like those shown in the very good extract from…
Explaining Capability Modeling to Business Process Professionals

Explaining Capability Modeling to Business Process Professionals

As I’ve noted in prior posts, many hard working business process management professionals find the concept of “Business Capabilities” to be confusing at best, and counterproductive at worst.  In a recent article in BPTrends, Paul Harmon made the following statement: the idea…

Business Model Generation Book

This week I talked in length about The New World of Enterprise Architecture or also referred to as Contemporary Enterprise Architecture.  This is the notion that EA is primarily business driven and focused. A few weeks back, I picked up a book…
Video Podcast: How Microsoft Does Enterprise Architecture

Video Podcast: How Microsoft Does Enterprise Architecture

It is amazing how often I need to share the very basic concept of Enterprise Architecture with my peers, customers, stakeholders, and associates.  Microsoft’s customers often ask about Enterprise Architecture, and when our customers come to visit us in the Microsoft Executive…

A week in Tweets: 26 December 2010 – 01 January 2011

Managing to keep up to date at present, so here’s the list of Tweets and links for the week (and year) just past. Usual categories, of course. Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business strategy and suchlike: tetradian: [post] Where is the information when we need…

What have software executives ever done for us?

@JohnSchlesinger asks What has the enterprise architect ever done for us? (@AtosOriginBlog, November 2010) John criticizes the IBM strategy in the late 1980s, especially the emphasis on Systems Application Architecture (SAA) and the neglect of CICS and IMS (John himself was a…

Selling Business Architecture

#entarch @alexcullen asks "How Would You Sell Business Architecture To Your CEO?" Alex's own answer to this question is in the form of a 15-minute pitch, based on the following three points. Your business is complex, and consistency is a challenge. IT…