Jorgen Mellink

How to find and connect the right data to make impactful insights that influence digital transformation decisions As architects, we’re in a unique position to leverage an enterprise view to ensure that boardroom-level executives have the data they need to drive business outcomes. This is especially important in the digital age, where executives look at…

Architects are typically professional at creating designs, analyses and plans that set their audiences in motion. However, to captivate your audiences, it’s important to create appealing visuals to convey a key message successfully. Yet, if your visuals are not presented with adequate context and structure, the impact of your message is limited at best. How…

Value is delivered to the enterprise when Capability Maps are readily accepted and adopted as a strategic planning tool. Business stakeholders can make data-driven decisions and align and prioritize investment decisions, among others. In part 1 of our blog series on Business Capability Maps, we’ve identified design principles focusing on the stakeholders consuming the Capability…

Business Architecture is nowadays gaining more traction among executives because it plays a key role in enabling organizations to transform into a composable enterprise, a term coined by research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. Business Architecture is used by architects as a form of business analysis to identify business value that’s focused on what the…

Business Capability Maps are used for a variety of strategic change purposes such as to align business leaders and other stakeholders on investment decisions. Capabilities are not IT concepts but are used to describe the abilities of an enterprise, i.e. what activities it’s able to do, either now or in the future, rather than how…

Your leadership team is in a tough spot. I’m not trying to make you feel sorry for them — as a business or enterprise architect, you have your own challenges to handle. But here’s the kicker: your challenges and their challenges are deeply intertwined — and solving your challenges may be part of the solution…

Guest blog written by Eddie Walker, director at Edifit Enterprise Architecture tools offer a platform to transform your architecture capability. Like any other system rollout, outcomes depend on managing the necessary business change to ensure successful adoption. Here are some tips based on our experiences. Prioritize the outcomes you want to achieve Be clear on…

The ability to create ‘insights’ to support business executives is a key benefit for users leveraging BiZZdesign HoriZZon’s enterprise architecture repository. However, creating impactful insights requires purpose, ownership, and work. We show you how to formulate a data strategy that quickly leverages key features of BiZZdesign HoriZZon to help you create insights that matter. How…

In our previous blog in our series on Capabilities and Capability-based Planning, we discussed the relationships between strategy, business models and capabilities. Now we want to delve one level deeper into the operating model of the enterprise. We want specifically to answer: How are capabilities delivered by the enterprise’s operating model? How they all relate:…

In our ongoing blog series on Capabilities and Capability-based Planning, we’ve mainly concentrated on the capability concept itself. We’ve discussed why capabilities are useful as a concept, how to define them, and how to structure Capability Maps. We’ve also looked at how you can use Capability Maps to support business challenges such as investment decision-making,…

Today we live in a rapidly changing world. Senior management is faced with various change initiatives to improve the different functions of an enterprise. All of these change initiatives are backed by well-informed arguments and compete for budgets. Although strategic management has access to a vast amount of information and tools to support strategic, tactical,…

Since the foundation of the Business Architecture Guild a little over a decade ago, its Business Architecture Body of Knowledge (BIZBOK®), as expressed in the BIZBOK® Guide, has become a popular set of guidelines and techniques for practicing business architects. More recently, it has also defined its own metamodel, which you can read about in this whitepaper (published August…