Governance Without Bureaucracy: How to Make Architecture Work for the Business

By Nadzeya Stalbouskaya “Architecture Governance.” For many, the term triggers eye rolls and not without reason. It’s often associated with long meetings, slow approvals, and documentation that adds more confusion than clarity. Instead of enabling [……

The Business Case for Federated Data Governance and Access Control

By Myles Suer, Strategic Marketing Director at Privacera

Around 2011, I was working as a product manager to work with HP’s enterprise architecture team. Soon after, I noticed these folks were wired just like me—they were systems thinkers. About this time my new friend, Don Brancato, encouraged me to get a copy of Enterprise Architecture as Strategy by Jeanne Ross, Peter Weill, and David Robertson. As I read the book from cover to cover, I remember  thinking, “now everything that is going on in IT makes sense.” It was only later that I actually got to be trained in TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework).

Quality as Business Technology Architecture: A New Model for Digital Enterprises

By Dr. Monalisa J. Gandhi, DBA, ASQ-CQA; Director, Quality-NORAM, Corporate Service; Sodexo Corporate Services Over the past several years, I’ve worked with organizations investing heavily in digital transformation—cloud platforms, AI-driven analytics,…

Capabilities-Driven Application Modernization: Business Value at Every Step

By Melissa Roberts, Managing Consultant & Strategic Business Architect, LiminalArc Last week, In Capabilities-Driven Application Modernization: A Strategic Framework for Economically Sound Investment Decisions, I made the case that organizations kn…

Rethinking Business Processes for the Age of AI

By Vasily Yamaletdinov, Enterprise Architect, Raiffeisen Bank Over recent decades, the concept of a “business process” has been the cornerstone of any organization’s operating model, defining an ordered sequence of interconnected acti…