Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
How often do you see customer journeys, customer events and scenarios modelled in an Enterprise Architecture model? Not often, if at all I suspect. In my opinion, the ‘Enterprise’ in Enterprise Architecture should include all those stakeholders that are engaged with an organisation. This include all those suppliers and service providers to the left hand […]
Business Architecture (BA) is a really hot topic these days. A few years back it was a topic that people either didn’t talk about or they avoided it. Over the past year or two I have noticed it’s frequency increase…
In this is Part 2 article, “Walker on Business Architecture” in the Architecture and Governance Magazine , I continue to explore and answer questions in the business and information architecture discipline. In part 2 of this article we switch the…
As you’ve read over past couple of years, we’ve started investing in a hybrid Angel/VC model. Lots of risk, lots of upside, and lots of fun new things to learn. Applying Capability Driven Methods to management from the start has been both f…
As you’ve read over past couple of years, we’ve started investing in a hybrid Angel/VC model. Lots of risk, lots of upside, and lots of fun new things to learn. Applying Capability Driven Methods to management from the start has been both f…
If the enterprise is a story, who are the actors in that story? What are their drivers and needs? How do we model and manage the relationships between those actors in the story? (This is part of an overview and…
What’s the fundamental difference between a for-profit organisation, and a not-for-profit one? Or, for that matter, between either of those and, say, a government department, or an NGO (non-governmental organisation)? Short answer: none – because every organisation is a for-profit organisation. The only…
By E.G. Nadhan, HP I look forward with great interest to the upcoming Open Group conference on EA & Enterprise Transformation in Finance, Government & Healthcare in Philadelphia in July 2013. In particular, I am interested in the sessions planned on … Continue reading →
I will be presenting a webinar on Tuesday, June 4th and again on Thursday June 6th on the topic of selling business architecture. This free webinar is sponsored by Accelare and is open for anyone to attend. You can register here: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 – 11:00AM EDT or Thursday, June 6, 2013 – […]
What is a narrative-oriented approach to enterprise-transformation? Why use it, and where, and how? And where did all this NOTES stuff come from, anyway? NOTES is, I admit, a somewhat-forced acronym for a way to look at business-change: Narrative-Oriented Transformation of Enterprise…
How do we use an narrative approach in enterprise-transformation? What’s different about it, in real-world practice? How does it work? In the first post in this series, I introduced the core ideas for NOTES – Narrative-Oriented Transformation of Enterprise (and)…
If – as we’re often told – business-design is about the relationships between people, process and technology, what is it that links all of themes together? Answer: a story. Okay, yes, this is a theme I’ve explored a lot here on…