6 Criteria for Smarter, High-Impact Portfolio Investment Decisions

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Imagine it’s portfolio review season. Leaders debate which initiatives to advance, business sponsors push for their projects, delivery leaders warn of capacity constraints, finance scrutinizes ROI, and risk teams highlight compliance. After lengthy discussions, decisions feel negotiated rather than determined. And months later, the debates return. The challenge is rarely a lack of expertise or…

Sitting down with the Vice-Chair of the Open Professions Work Group, Milan Boros

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By Ash Patel – CDMP – Certified Copywriter (CMP), Content Marketing Manager, The Open Group

Recently, we reached out to Milan Boros of IBM to discuss his role as the Vice-Chair of The Open Group Governing Board Open Professions Work Group.

Milan is the Chief Platforms Architect in the HR, Finance & Accounting business with 20 years of IT solutions experience. Milan started his career as a mainframe developer and still believes in the platform. Driven by the mainframe enthusiasm, he joined IBM in 2012 where over the years he first moved into architecture, then through different architecture domains like application architecture, mainframe modernization, cloud migration, and now platform architecture. He is an advocate of the Architect Profession, leading it globally for the enterprise (IBM) and also contributing to The Open Group Open Professions Work Group.

A Scrapbook of Past Projects

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Enterprise Architecture has a reputation problem. Not because it lacks rigor or structure — quite the opposite. But because too often, architecture feels like something that exists next to the organization rather than within it. Diagrams live in tools, standards sit in documents, and architectural knowledge slowly fragments across folders, platforms, and people’s heads. It’s kind of like an intangible scrapbook of past projects.
The Architecture Repository, as described in the TOGAF® Standard, is an attempt to fix that. Not by introducing yet another tool or database, but by introducing a way of thinking. A way of treating architecture as a coherent, evolving body of knowledge — one that can be reused, governed, and continuously refined.

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Solving the Scope 3 Data Crisis: How Open Standards Can Transform Emissions Reporting

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By Jim Hietala, Vice President, Sustainability and Market Development, The Open Group. The Growing Challenge of Scope 3 Emissions Data

Large multinational corporations face unprecedented challenges in capturing and managing Scope 3 emissions data across their complex value chains. As regulatory requirements intensify globally—from the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) to the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards and California’s Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act—the pressure to provide accurate, transparent emissions reporting has never been greater.