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Bas van Gils

Implementing a Data Governance Capability

March 6, 2015 by Bas van Gils

For many organizations, the big question is not if data is important, but how to manage it in order to be successful. Success, of course, is a big word and can mean different things to different people: from surviving in a highly competitive /…

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Modeling portals, services, and widgets using ArchiMate®

September 3, 2012 by Bas van Gils

The SOA-paradigm has gained wide spread adoption over the last few years. With good reason: it has long been recognized that decoupling application logic from the specific way/ place where it is implemented has numerous benefits. In the same vain: port…

Categories Enterprise Architecture

Whitepaper: Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF 9.1 and ArchiMate 2.0

June 14, 2012 by Bas van Gils

With the appearance of Version 2.0, the ArchiMate standard for enterprise architecture modeling now offers full modeling support throughout the architecture development cycle. It allows for the description and visualization of different architecture do…

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Using “back of the napkin” with TOGAF and ArchiMate

February 15, 2012 by Bas van Gils

This post is a crosspost from: http://www.strategic-architecture.blogspot.com
Having recently read all of Dan Roam’s books (Back of the napkin, Unfolding the napkin, and Blah Blah Blah) I started drawing stuff whenever I could. I’m not naturally g…

Categories Enterprise Architecture

ArchiMate® 2.0: The Future of Enterprise Architecture Modeling has arrived!

February 1, 2012 by Bas van Gils

 

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a discipline that creates value for organizations by answering the question “how should we organize ourselves?”The art of modeling plays an important role in this discipline, both to get insight in the current …

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TOGAF series 7/9: Managing implementation oversight of projects

November 14, 2011 by Bas van Gils

This is the seventh posting in a series on TOGAF’s ADM. In the previous posts we zoomed in on defining a vision, modeling baseline and target architectures, finding delivery vehicles for implementing the target architecture as well as defining a se…

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TOGAF series 6/9: Translating opportunities to a well-defined project plan

October 31, 2011 by Bas van Gils

This is the sixth posting in a series on TOGAF’s ADM. In the previous post we zoomed in on finding opportunities that help realize a desired vision. In this post we pick up the thread and focus on translating these opportunities and solutions to a …

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