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Adrian Grigoriu ..continued from previous.As suspected, the approach ends up with a process map, sliding back into familar territory to BP Trends.The process map (here is the process architecture method again) consists of Management, Core and Support p…
…continued from previous post. This BP Trends advisor proposes a method to develop a business process architecture which…In fig. 4 and 5, the customer, interacting with various links of the value chain, is placed at the end of t…
This BP Trends advisor proposes a method to develop a business process architecture which, to quote, “briefly walks through one approach to developing a comprehensive business process architecture–the approach used by BPTrends Associate…
The big problem is that today Business (Enterprise) Architecture practices exist without ever creating business blueprints.
Capabilities in a sentence or twoDefinitions of EA are diverse. Capability definitions are even much more so and usually useless in practice. Here is one you can use.A capability is a feature of your enterprise (such as it can produce…
“How would you compare your Enterprise Architecture implementation (i.e., instance) with your competitor’s Enterprise Architecture?” This question was asked by Rubina from my previous post. Since I found it of general interest I post it in th…
The enterprise architecture development should be evaluated to assess1. its scope, if it covers the whole enterprise or at least it plans to, starting with the parts specifically demanded. A reference (business) architecture …
Alignment though essentially means transforming the enterprise (technology for instance) to perform what the business needs on an operational, tactical and strategic scale.
I post here in response to this post of Gartner’s: “Enterprise architects: Please leave your framework at the door”.Please don’t, that is, leave the EA framework at the door. You do it at your own peril.Because a good framework is like the…
This post comes as a response to TOGAF Misconceptions blog by Mike Walker citing Dave Hornford which responds to some misgivings I have about the method.How does TOGAF serves your effort to develop an Enterprise Architecture? Let’s have a look…
Just published this brand new book “The Enterprise Architecture matters blog” on Amazon Kindle.
It is a collection of blogs on Enterprise Architecture (EA) I posted to during the last few years. I blogged, constantly, since the very beginning of…
Enterprise architecture (EA), as the name states, is the architecture that is the integrated blueprint of the enterprise. It, simply put, describes the enterprise from the many angles that serve its various stakeholders.Hence, EA, as an architecture, …