Building Strategic Process Architecture
Now a days companies are developing Process Architectur […]
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Leverage
Focused Efforts Producing Significant ResultsEnterprise leverage occurs when a focused effort produces significant results for the enterprise and its strategy. How do Enterprise Architects help the CIO produce enterprise leverage? Enterprise Architecture (EA) has to go beyond simply improving operational efficiency, reducing costs and providing technical excellence. Here are my suggestions for how the EA role could…
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EA: past and future, money and story
One more comment on the ‘certification for enterprise-architecture’ farrago, and then I’d better move on. The other day I spotted a one-liner from ‘gamechanger‘ Mike Bonifer that I can only describe as quietly brilliant – and painfully pertinent to this…
Integrating TOGAF and The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) Service Landscape Whitepaper
Today The Open Group released the updated whitepaper, Integrating the TOGAF® Standard with the BIAN Service Landscape. This release might be beneficial for those architects in the banking space that use or considering to use TOGAF in conjunction with BIAN….
And more on EA certification…
What is the profession of enterprise-architecture? And what should we do about certification, to define and protect that profession? Yeah, it’s much the same questions as before – but perhaps becoming a bit more urgent as the thrust from Open Group…
Dubai ‘smart city’: are we there yet?
A “smart city” vision is born as a response […]
Open Group Enterprise Architecture Conference London 2013 Highlights
Last week , The Open Group kicked off their signature Enterprise Architecture Conference in London. Like others in the recent past the Open Group has taken on a industry focus for these quarterly conferences. The goal here is to provide…
The stench of systemic decay
It was the smell that caught my attention first, I guess – the smell of chemicals as I walked through through the front door of their supposedly upmarket offices. But it’s something I’ve come to recognise, to watch for, as…
At Open Group London 2013 – and certification again
Another month, another enterprise-architecture conference? This time it was Open Group London, billed as “Business Transformation in Finance, Government and Healthcare”. Of which it did cover some – according to the programme and the Twitterstream, anyway. (See the Open Group’s ‘highlights’…
Diversity Versus Replication of Organizational Processes and Information
I recently had the pleasure of joining a discussion among organizational development professionals. During that discussion, one individual asked an interesting question: in a distributed organization with multiple operating units, spread geograph…
The Open Group London – Day Two Highlights
By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications We eagerly jumped into the second day of our Business Transformation conference in London on Tuesday October 22nd! The setting is the magnificent Central Hall Westminster. Steve Nunn, COO of The Open … Continue reading →
The Business? No!
From Baked Idea, this scathing critique of a favourite enterprise architecture cliche…
“Unless you are some sort of corporate stowaway that has secreted yourself into an organisation just for shits and giggles, you are part of ‘the business’…
There is no gigantic creature called ‘The business’ sitting in your stationery cupboard saying “no!”..
Referring to ‘the business’ is a sign of laziness. It is a sign that you can’t be arsed to put the effort into thinking about your context…