Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Open Group By The Open Group Foreword By Allen Brown, CEO 2011 was a big year for The Open Group, thanks to the efforts of our members and our staff – you all deserve a very big thank you. There have been … Continue reading →
By The Open Group Cloud Work Group Members With 2012 fast approaching, Cloud Computing will remain a hot topic for IT professionals everywhere. The Open Group Cloud Work Group worked on various initiatives in 2011, including the Cloud Computing Surv…
By Pascal de Koning, KPN You want to put your company’s business strategy into action. What’s the best way to accomplish this? This can be done in a structured manner by using an Enterprise Architecture Framework like TOGAF®. TOGAF® offers …
By Allen Brown, The Open Group I’m pleased to announce The Open Group has recently surpassed the 400 member mark. Reaching this milestone is a true testament to the commitment our members and staff have made to promoting open standards … Contin…
By Andrew Josey and Garry Doherty, The Open Group We know that TOGAF® isn’t perfect. In fact, it probably never will be, but sometimes, especially after a major release, it’s a good idea to stop and look backwards after its been … Continue …
By Serge Thorn, Architecting the Enterprise I have observed many situations where a c-level person was supposed to document an IT Strategy in a short period of time, in order to prepare the following year’s annual budget. Very often, they … Con…
By Stuart Boardman, KPN Ruth Malan recently tweeted a link to a piece by Alistair Cockburn about the Last Responsible Moment concept (LRM) in Lean Software Development. I’ve been out of software development for a while now but I could … Con…
By Raghuraman Krishnamurthy, Cognizant Technology Solutions If your enterprise is predominantly a consumer goods enterprise, you would have noticed tectonic shifts in the marketing focus. Traditionally, the goods and services were promoted through the …
By Jim Hietala, Vice President, Security, The Open Group 2011 confirmed what many in the Enterprise Architecture industry have feared – data breaches are on the rise. It’s not just the number and cost of data breaches, but the sheer … Continu…
Business Technology Management (BTM) is not a methodology but I would say a concept, or eventually the aggregation of several guidelines and techniques. It is also described as a management science which aims to unify business and technology business s…
If we can understand IT (where appropriate) as part of the business of the enterprise, then we are automatically addressing alignment and are neither elevating IT architecture to the ultimate goal of EA nor treating it as a marginally relevant utility….
Enterprise Transformation is a long, slow, steady process. In some cases the projects we are working on may not seem to be very transformative but taken together with other projects, over a period of time, a transformation, for better or worse, will ha…