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Are you using Archimate 3.0 Specification as your modelling standard? Do your current tools enable you to work with this and other standards as easily as you would like? If not, you may be interested to find an easy-to-use, repository-based tool to ful…
Click here to watch the recording. Are you using Archimate 3.0 Specification as your modelling standard? Do your current tools enable you to work with this and other standards as easily as you would like? If not, you may be interested to find an easy-to-use, repository-based tool to fully support your requirements. You can manage … Read more
The Open Group, the vendor-neutral IT consortium, is hosting its next global event in Paris, France, between October 24-27, 2016. The event, taking place at the Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile, will focus on e-Government, as well as how to address … Continue reading →
We’ve explored the current status for enterprise-architecture [EA]; we’ve explored the changes to the discipline over the past few decades. Time now, perhaps, to assess the future – or futures, rather – of its likely onward development and direction. This report is in two parts:…
I was reminded last week of the need to simplify through organization. A client had the usual EA documentation – masses and masses of diagrams, slides, documents – all in a glorious muddle. A simple classification scheme started to turn the mess into something more useful and reusable. Here is lesson #56 from 101 Lessons From…
This week’s episode of Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast, number 411, features Tom’s essay on Servant Leadership (which I highly recommened), John Quigley on managing requirements as a part of product management, a Form Follows Function installment based on my post “Organizations as Systems – ‘Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the […]
Forrester and InfoWorld set the theme for this year’s awards as ‘Speed and Responsiveness – And EA”. The underlying premise is that business leaders are demanding that their business moves faster – everything from updating digital capabilities to bringing more agility in how firms work with customers and suppliers. In theory, enterprise architecture is a key capability to moving faster. But how can EA programs – traditionally policemen of technology – deliver on this potential?
This year’s Enterprise Architecture Award winners show how.
The title of this blog post is taken from the submission of one of our winners – Humana. The exact quote from their submission is:
“Humana believes enterprise architecture is primarily a verb, not a noun.”
But this isn’t just a sentiment unique to Humana. All our winners are delivering business results because they embed insight and guidance into the decisions made by their business and IT leaders – enabling these leaders to ‘enterprise architect’ how they achieve business results. The result? Speed and responsiveness of their enterprise.
Here is how our five winners of this year’s awards are doing this. But before I describe them, I must say that every year, it gets harder to select winners due to the range of innovation and impact our judges are seeing. When a judge says of one firm, not selected as a winner “This is a really neat concept, well conceived and executed. This company could do our profession a great service if they published this model!” – then you know there are many outstanding award submissions.
The 2016 Enterprise Architecture Award Winners
Humana– Evolving EA through Architecting for Change.
A Customer Journey Map is a useful way to graphically represent the customer experience of an organization. It focuses on the touchpoints that characterize the customers’ interaction with the services of the organization and helps you to optimize this experience.
Endorsement or selective exposure to those of the scientific quarter is key for our work if we want to accomplish anything. Actually you can be the best architect or the best in any other field, but without endorsement no one will use anything from you, unless you produce a commodity item. The reason for this … Continue reading Lost without endorsement →
My interest in leadership, how it works and how it fails, goes back a long way. Almost as soon as I learned how to read, history, particularly military history, has been a favorite of mine. Captains and kings, their triumphs and their downfalls, fascinated me. The eleven years I served with the Henrico Sheriff’s Office […]
Time for another — this time very short — educational quiz post. Look at the following diagram. Is this OK?
Costello: Well then who’s on first? Abbott: Yes. Costello: I mean the fellow’s name. Abbott: Who. Costello: The guy on first. Abbott: Who. Costello: The first baseman. Abbott: Who. Costello: The guy playing… Abbott: Who is on first! Today’s blog is triggered by the entry authored by my friend and colleague, Ben Sommer, reflecting on […]