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By Stuart Macgregor, CEO, Real IRM Solutions and The Open Group South Africa These industry insights look at John Kotter’s eight stages of change management, and explore his timeless blueprint for effective change leadership. These change management principles can gel … Continue reading →
By The Open Group The Open Group hosted the first TOGAF® User Group meeting on January 25, 2016 in San Francisco. With over 50,000 certified users in more than 120 countries, the intent of the TOGAF User Group was to … Continue reading →
By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Communications, The Open Group On Monday, January 25, The Open Group kicked off its first event of 2016, focused on Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™, at the Marriott Union Square in the city by the … Continue reading →
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The PM is as such the administrative secretary of a project team who has to facilitate the work of the professionals rather than tell them what to do and how they should break down the work. Hence, while the Project Manager has own role in a…
…without an EA, a transformation is blind. It does not see the objects around and in its path. Thus it bumps into them or it fails to consider them.
Enterprise Architecture is facing several challenges as a discipline and a practice. In this blog post, John Gøtze outlines four central challenges, and discusses what should be done. He suggests that enterprise architecture management must focus on enterprise collaboration. The Challenges The discipline Enterprise Architecture (EA) is at a crossroads, facing four challenges: The first […]
Facing the choice of hiring a LEAN Expert, an Enterprise Architect or two production workers, what would be the best choice? The choice is rarely presented in this fashion, but as the cost is comparable it is a choice taken daily by enterprises across the world. Where would you put your money? Being an Enterprise […]
“What is our mandate?” – I cannot count the number of times an architect (both enterprise, solution, integration and other) asked me that question. Mostly in the sense ‘can we dictate the solution?’ and then expected me to provide a clear answer. Perhaps I am slow-witted, but the question just baffles me. I mean, unless […]
The essence of simplification is grasping what is and what is not important. Conveying Insight is a core EA-task why simplification is a must-do activity. Apply simplification to the ever so complex Logical System Landscape and you have The Conceptual System Landscape. The Conceptual System Landscape is a strong tool to communicate the business-IT relationship, […]
By The Open Group The Open Group will be hosting its Spring 2015 summit in Madrid from April 20-23. Focused on Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™, the summit will explore the increasing digitalization of business today and how Enterprise Architecture will … Continue reading →
IRM AB has its annual EA Träff in Stockholm on 17 March. John Gøtze will speak in the afternoon. His talk is about the EA3 approach to enterprise architecture, and how it relates to other EA approaches such as TOGAF.
Following is a transcript of part of the proceedings from The Open Group San Diego event in February – a panel discussion on The Synergy of Enterprise Architecture frameworks. The following panel, which examines the synergy among the major Enterprise … Continue reading →