Business Architecture – Page 73

A week in Tweets: 7-13 November 2010

December 3, 2010 by Tom Graves

Running way late on the weeklies – apologies. Usual categories, anyway, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, all that kind of stuff:

SAlhir: innovation is less abt product & more about culture RT @jorgebarba @ovoinnovation real product of #innovation http://ow.ly/1rqENf
oscarberg: RT @raesmaa: HBR: Stress-Test Your Strategy http://bit.ly/aFst5a <recommend #bmgen #bizarch #entarch #collab
CreatvEmergence: The Meaningful Organization: […]

EA Leadership and Compromise: Sometimes, success is not what you think it will be

November 29, 2010 by Nick Malik

About a week ago, I blogged a short story about a fictional town that faced a problem, with two competing solutions. There are many observations about life in corporate IT that I included in that story: how different people can end up competing w…

What does Business and IT alignment mean

November 15, 2010 by Emeric Nectoux

What does Business and IT alignment mean? #iCMG Architecture World – Linkedin Group discussion http://ow.ly/39LVW Above, is a link to a very long Linkedin discussion about: Rajiv What does Business and IT alignment mean? The objective of this discussion is 1) Define what does IT alignment with business means? 2) Define process needed to […]

Business Architecture Apprentice Training Model

November 13, 2010 by Nick Malik

There is no question that businesses need Business Architects. There is no question that business architecture in an important set of activities. The question is, really, where do we get them? I’ve seen no lack of interest in this field….

How many business architects do you need?

November 12, 2010 by Nick Malik

This is an interesting question, and it depends on a lot of different kinds of answers. The business architecture team here in Microsoft IT has developed a set of services that they will offer to various customers, both within IT and in the busin…

Modelling Behaviour

October 19, 2010 by Adrian Campbell

I frequently find that there is much confusion about the modelling of Behaviour in an Enterprise Architecture model, specifically between the concepts of Business Capability, Business Function and Business Process. The various enterprise architecture glossaries all differ in their definition of these. For example the TOGAF ADM or ISEB definitions don’t help as much as […]

Enterprise Agility, an Attempt to Get to the Bone

September 26, 2010 by Kris Meukens

A while ago I got involved in following little Twitter conversation: @pauljansen: RT @umairh the more unpredictable the world gets, the less valuable your cleverest strategy becomes < unless you go for agility @krismeukens: @pauljansen agility requ…

Linthicum’s Challenge: Where does SOA stop and EA start?

September 20, 2010 by Nick Malik

Tom Graves, David Linthicum, and I recently got into an interesting discussion on Twitter as the result of a, EBiz blog post by David, where he makes the statement that Good SOA is the same as Good EA. (See ‘Do SOA and enterprise architecture now…

A roadmap to BPM democratization

September 17, 2010 by Nick Malik

A few days ago, I blogged about a talk provided by Phil Gilbert at the BPM2010 conference. In that talk, Phil made a compelling case that the smart people who are working on BPM systems and solutions are WORKING ON THE WRONG THINGS. It was …

Evolving the Enterprise Business Motivation Model

September 10, 2010 by Nick Malik

As my readers may know, I published a metamodel for business architecture about 18 months ago in the Microsoft Architecture Journal. Calling it the Enterprise Business Motivation Model, I based my model on a combination of a number of standard an…

What Business Architecture and Pudding Have in Common

September 7, 2010 by Douglas Paul Thiel

(this is a response to the recent article in Architecture and Governance Magazine titled ‘Archimate: Adding Value to TOGAF’ – registration required.)I was walking down the hall last week when the VP of Finance stopped me and asked me for my latest …

What Business Architecture and Pudding Have in Common

September 7, 2010September 7, 2010 by Douglas Paul Thiel