Becoming a Digital-First Enterprise: The Open Group October 2020 Virtual Event

Amidst ongoing global uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is evident: Business and technology leaders are facing the radical, fundamental change of becoming a digital enterprise. Traditional approaches and industry frameworks for technology management are being challenged both by new technologies and new practices, requiring key decision makers to take a more Agile, collaborative, and end-to-end value stream view of work.

In the ongoing transition to Digital-First, an increasing number of technology executives, managers, and practitioners are looking for new approaches which will help them to make sense of the evolving business landscape and deliver digital products and services.

With this in mind, The Open Group will host its upcoming event virtually on October 26-29, 2020 – providing the opportunity for attendees to discover the critical digital standards designed to enable and support the smooth transition to a Digital-First enterprise.

Service, product, service – a question of structure?

Do product and service have the same structure? If they’re different views into the same space, what of that shared-structure can we see in each case? The next post in this series on the relationship between product and service was going to be …

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Service, product, service – a novel concept?

Service and product as different views into the same space – is that a novel concept? If so, what does that imply for enterprise-architecture and the like? The next post in this series on the relationship between product and service was …

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Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Investment Planning

Even when an Enterprise Architecture practice is present in an organization, it is most often understood to be either strictly preoccupied with the management of IT, or at most with the management of business and IT together, but on a horizontal level. The truth is, however, that mature EA is not only capable but also expected to deliver a vertical…

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Enterprise Architecture and Capability-Based Planning

Business capabilities are stable building blocks that define what an organization does. They encompass elements such as people, processes and systems that come together to realize specific functions. Due to their relatively lasting nature and the way they consolidate various cross-domain components, capabilities are a very useful tool for facilitating dialogue between stakeholders on the business and…

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Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Investment Planning

Even when an Enterprise Architecture practice is present in an organization, it is most often understood to be either strictly preoccupied with the management of IT, or at most with the management of business and IT together, but&#1…

Getting The Most Out Of An EA Tool

At work we use Bizzdesign’s Enterprise Studio (BES). I wanted to talk a little about getting the most out of an EA tool like this, if you want to get to a more advanced level of architecture model maturity. Yes its true, I like Enterprise Studio, but not because of any affiliation with the company; […]

THE OPEN GROUP FACE™ AND SOSA™ FIRST VIRTUAL TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE MEETING (TIM)

The Open Group was pleased to host the first Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™)  and Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA™)  Virtual Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM),