ArchiMate NEXT: summary verdict, “what’s in a name?”, and a wild ride.
Fourth (and last) post about the ArchiMate NEXT snapshot from last summer. Summarising and then going wild on suggestions. Fasten your seatbelts, ArchiMate-geeks!
#eavoices
CIOs and Their Priorities in 2026
By Holt Hackney As CIOs look toward 2026, the mandate is getting sharper, and heavier. Technology leaders are being asked to deliver AI-driven innovation, enterprise resilience, and measurable growth at a time when budgets and […]
SAP LeanIX 2026: building on our EA momentum
SAP LeanIX had a landmark year, marked by breakthrough product innovations and standout moments at the SAP Transformation Excellence Summits. Discover what shaped 2025 and where we’re headed in 2026.
Beyond Utilization Rates: How AI is Solving the Talent “Visibility Gap”
We’re living through a strange disconnect in resource management. Organizations have invested heavily in project management tools—Jira, Asana, Monday, Smartsheet—yet the most fundamental question still gets answered with guesswork: “Who’s available to take on this project next month?” We’ve digitized the tasks, but we haven’t solved the chaos. And here’s the kicker: research shows that…
Architecture Testing in the Age of Agentic AI: Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
By Christian Siegers, Principal, KPMG Advisory For decades, architecture testing has been the quiet backbone of responsible software engineering. While application testing ensures features work, architecture testing ensures that systems behave. It veri…
Architecture Communities: The Hidden Engine Of Enterprise Agility
Your architects are making technology decisions in isolation. And you’re paying for it. Retail picks Azure. Manufacturing goes AWS. Three business units each spin up customer data hubs. Nobody documents the APIs they create. Your teams think they’…
ArchiMate NEXT: On stories versus maps
A new version of ArchiMate is coming. Last summer a snapshot of “ArchiMate NEXT” was published. Third of a few articles with my thoughts on the development, like the previous one focusing on an aspect that did not change (but maybe should)
Build Business Advantage With Real-Time Decision-Making
Abstract:
Real-time businesses are able to make quick, data-driven decisions, enabling them to dramatically outperform competitors. Research points to four key capabilities that the most successful RTBs have: real-time data availability and decision-m…
Are You an Architect—or a Management Consultant?
On enterprise architecture without descriptions, and what happens when architects stop producing models
Stop Delivering Change, Start Designing a Business That Can Actually Grow
By Lisa Woodall Most organisations say they want growth, productivity, and resilience. Fewer are willing to confront whether the business model they are operating today is actually capable of delivering those outcomes. Instead, the reflex […]
Architect Mihaela Mazzenga Talks About Career and the Founding of Iasa Global’s Modern Architectures Community
By Holt Hackney Mihaela Mazzenga is a distinguished technology executive, who has more than 20 years of experience driving digital transformations and architecting best-in-breed SaaS and business-critical software solutions. More recently, she founded …
ArchiMate NEXT: At your service!
A new version of ArchiMate is coming. Last summer a snapshot of “ArchiMate NEXT” was published. Second of a few articles with my thoughts on the development. Focusing on ArchiMate’s second essential property: external behaviour/structure (services, int…