Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Is money the only possible form of profit? And if not, what does that imply for design of business-models? – and, beyond that, to economics itself? This is one that I’ve been struggling with, both personally and professionally, for a…
All that discussion about capabilities – yeah, great, fine. But how do we use them? How do we use this notion of ‘capabilities’ in designing our business-models and suchlike? I was kinda reminded about this from another direction yesterday, in a great…
Where do business architects go to learn about their profession? Take this survey to find out. Interest in business architecture is growing dramatically. Though there is a great deal of discussion, there is little consensus about what business architecture is, how it should be pursued, and what value it delivers. Where do business architects and […]
Just a quick question – or request for priorities, perhaps. I’m at last getting my act together on doing podcasts and videocasts around my existing and future materials. The podcasts will probably be two to five minutes long, on any appropriate…
How many layers are there in an enterprise-architecture? If we read any of the standard texts, you’ll see there are several popular answers. For example, Archimate says there are three: Business, Application and Technology. TOGAF says there are four: Business, Data,…
A full EA consists of the integration of the Business, Technology and People/Organisation architectures.
5 Capability Model Introduction to corporate governance […]
Last week I taught a half-day workshop on Kick-starting Business Architecture at the 2013 Building Business Capability conference in Las Vegas. I had 75 participants from a wide variety of backgrounds including business architects, business analysts, enterprise architects, project managers, business process managers, business managers, and strategists. A very diverse group to say the least. […]
I was reading this today: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/ea-matters/is-there-an-enterprise-architect-paradox-surely-is-57728?rss=1 It is a good analysis of the cognitive dissonance between what Enterprise Architects should be doing and the role and situation they often actually find themselves in. The term Enterprise Architect has been hijacked for far too long. An Enterprise Architect should indeed be a senior leadership role, ideally reporting to […]
Cultural context is the contextual element we hear about most. It represents what the majority of employees believe about the organization and what it takes to be successful there. One way to think about it is as the organization’s reaction to the structural context. Culture can be tightly aligned with and support the structural context […]
Today The Open Group released the updated whitepaper, Integrating the TOGAF® Standard with the BIAN Service Landscape. This release might be beneficial for those architects in the banking space that use or considering to use TOGAF in conjunction with BIAN….