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A useful technique for service design and innovation is the Service Blueprint. It is related to customer journey maps (see our previous blog) in its emphasis of customer touchpoints, but focuses more on the realization of services by underlying activities and less on the quality of the customer’s experience. A service blueprint provides a layered depiction of a service, showing from top to bottom:
The Data Management Association (DAMA) International is a prominent association for data management professionals. They have accumulated and published a Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) and a Dictionary of Terms. For those struggling with establishing or improving their Information Management…
The Data Management Association (DAMA) International is a prominent association for data management professionals. They have accumulated and published a Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) and a Dictionary of Terms. For those struggling with es…
For all my good intentions, I was unable to restart my blog posts in the last year. My new role as the Senior Manager, Technology planning is not new anymore! The demand of my new job is significant and I worked very hard for this past year.
No visits…
As an architect you are often part of the company internal circus of budgeting with OPEX, CAPEX, ROI, TCO and similar. So this is why we are quickly being influenced by budgeting when we look a the most cost efficient way of an architecture. The problem with taking our lesson from the budgeting process is … Continue reading Understanding costs →
A big congratulations goes out to our customer South State Bank for being chosen as a winner in this year’s Forrester and InfoWorld Enterprise Architecture Awards 2016.
This one’s a follow-up on my previous post, from a month ago now, ‘On not retiring‘. What I said back there was that, yeah, fairly obviously, people like me (and you too, I presume) don’t ever really retire – we…
Following on from that description of ‘further-futures’ enterprise-architecture, several folks have asked me for a real example of the kind of world that I see, as an outcome of ‘Really-Big-Picture Enterprise-Architecture‘ [RBPEA]. In other words, what would be the outcome…
In several previous blogs, we have outlined how you can use ArchiMate 3 in the context of business architecture and strategy development, such as Capability-Based Planning, and combining it with the Business Motivation Model, the Business Model Canvas …
EA Learning is delighted to announce the launch of a new course created by Craig Martin and Helen Palmer through Craig’s new business Design Chain. Design in Business will provide a relevant, practical, and highly insightful […]
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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