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I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that business strategy work is often about constrained thinking. Thinking “inside the box” is nearly always rewarded well. After all, the person giving the rewards lives in the same box. One of the most pernicious kinds of constrained thinking is “brand thinking.” That is the notion that the value…
Here is a quick interactive quiz from Good e-Learning on 35 definitions from the TOGAF glossary. There are 77 definitions in TOGAF Chapter 3, and further 92 definitions in Appendix A! This quiz focuses on some that are the most important for understanding TOGAF and passing the exam.
By The Open Group This is part two in a two part series. Professional development and training is a perpetually hot topic within the technology industry. After all, who doesn’t want to succeed at their job and perform better? Ongoing … Continue reading →
Back on the toolsets theme, what’s the Why behind all this focus on a new type of toolset? Why won’t the existing toolsets do the job? In practice, the core concern is as per the previous post ‘Toolsets, pinball and un-dotting…
While in every day operations the lack of proper management practices is easy to conceal, this would most likely fail the company at its first large transformation.
By The Open Group This is part one in a two part series. Professional development and training is a perpetually hot topic within the technology industry. After all, who doesn’t want to succeed at their job and perform better? Ongoing … Continue reading →
Strategy+Business has just published an interesting article about how companies are making data a source of sustainable growth. It’s not a new topic – data architects have long recognized the need to treat data as a treasured corporate assets. The article is called “The Quantified Self Goes Corporate”
The division of labour has been the main principle for structuring organisations in the last two centuries. That is still the dominant approach for allocating resources, information and power in companies and public institutions. The new dynamics in a connected world have revealed a rich spectrum of problems related with these structures ranging from ineffective coordination to […]
Four useful articlesThe IRM newsletter often covers contemporary EA topics. The latest issue (January 2015) has four articles, including one that I’ve written that provides a step-by-step guide to using Enterprise Patterns: Real World Business Processes: There is No Such Thing as a Bad Example – “After the Fire Alarm”, Roger Burlton We Want to…
Meta-this-that-and-the-other – metamodels, metaframeworks, metamethodology, metatheory, even metatools? What is all this stuff about ‘meta-‘? And what is ‘meta-’, anyway? One answer is that it’s about a kind of recursion that we often need in our work, in which something is applied to…
By The Open Group John Zachman’s Zachman Framework is widely recognized as the foundation and historical basis for Enterprise Architecture. On Tuesday, Feb. 3, during The Open Group’s San Diego 2015 event, Zachman will be giving the morning’s keynote address … Continue reading →
Knowing the seven parts of the TOGAF documentation is very useful – for navigating and finding your way around the documentation, for the exam and in day-to-day use of TOGAF. This poster from GeL summarizes how the seven parts of TOGAF fit as the filling between the Business Vision and Drivers, and Business Capabilities.