Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
So many IT departments seems stumble around in the dark, not having a structured overview of the application landscape or the business, and yet Enterprise Architecture promising to remediate this has a hard time gaining traction. Why is this? My conclusion is, that: Enterprise Architecture is not a well-defined discipline. Hiring an Enterprise Architect, you […]
TOGAF provides a Framework for any organization wishing to benefit from developing an Enterprise Architecture of anyone wishing to become an enterprise architect. This short 2-minute video from Orbus aims to answer the question: What are the benefits of TOGAF?
There are some things in TOGAF that confuse practitioners over and over. The difference between scope and partition is one of those confusions that comes up as a regular question. This article that I wrote for Good e-Learning explains the key differences, and explain why TOGAF can be confusing.
By William Estrem, President, Metaplexity Associates LLC, Serge Thorn, Associate, Metaplexity Associates LLC, and Sonia Gonzalez, Architecture and ArchiMate® Forums Director, The Open Group If you are using the TOGAF® standard in your organization to guide the process of developing … Continue reading →
The Business Model exposes the key variations of the Value Chain
Short post today: my new column on the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal, titled “The (Forgotten) Other Half of SOA” has been published. A somewhat technical subject: service oriented architectures and performance issues. With a few ArchiMate views added to the … Continue reading →
For any organisation that’s in the public-eye, a co-branding deal sounds like a perfect win-win: you get a pile of useful cash merely for letting someone put up a load of posters around the place. What could possibly go wrong…
By Krish Ayyar, Managing Principal, Martin-McDougall Technologies Enterprise Architecture is there to solve Enterprise level problems. A typical problem scenario could be something like “A large Mining and Resources company uses many sensors to collect and feed engineering data back … Continue reading →
Another free TOGAF resource from Good e-Learning. This time it’s a template for defining Principles. A good set of well-defined Principles are an excellent way to simplify EA decision making. This template covers all of the key things that you need to include to define a good Principle, and includes a great set of questions…
In enterprise-architecture, how should you describe or model ‘self-service’ – in which the customer, rather than the organisation’s employee, uses the organisation’s systems to place an order, or search for information? The classic way of looking at this is from…
Strategy& provide a very useful annual overview of trends, challenges, and opportunities for companies in different industry sectors. These expert views are based on industry discussions, market observation, and data analysis. The industry sectors covered are: Aerospace and Defense Trends; Auto Industry Trends; Aviation Trends; Chemicals Trends; Commercial Transportation Trends; Consumer Goods Trends; Healthcare Trends;…
I never intend to halt my public writing. It just happens. A client invites me to work on interesting problem, which can lead to another interesting problem or client, and before long only the crickets remain here. During this latest, much prolonged, cricket chorus I’ve been helping clients pursue digital agenda items. It is critical to […]