Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Hard to add to the self explanatory picture above! Even though I am a technologist at heart, the discerning reader will surely appreciate the hogging of real estate by the word “Business”. After all, that is what it is all about.But please, please, ple…
Hard to add to the self explanatory picture above! Even though I am a technologist at heart, the discerning reader will surely appreciate the hogging of real estate by the word “Business”. After all, that is what it is all about.But please, please, ple…
A structured framework into which business information and knowledge can be dropped only provides only one of the foundational elements required of an Enterprise Architecture. An Enterprise Architecture Framework without content provides no business no value. It must be populated. … Continue reading →
Businesses, in order to thrive, must constantly innovate. Subject to drivers from both external and internal sources, the need to change may only be apparent where sufficiently good business intelligence is available. . Managing the direction of change, without good … Continue reading →
By Bala Prasad Peddigari, Tata Consultancy Services Limited Learning has been a continuous journey for me throughout my career, but certification in TOGAF® truly benchmarked my knowledge and Open CA qualified my capability as a practitioner. Open CA not only tested my skills as a practitioner, but also gave me valuable recognition and respect as … … Continue reading →
In a multiple-stakeholder enterprise – which, in practice, is the case for every enterprise – how do we make sense of how each stakeholder views the context? What’s important to them? What’s not important to them? And why? And given…
When presented with someone’s ‘terms and conditions’ dialog, how often do you read through the whole thing, and only then click the ‘I have read…’ checkbox, and move on? If you did actually read it, do you truly agree to…
To manage a business effectively it is essential that decisions makers know Where the business is going? Why it is going there? How it will get there? How well it is travelling? What risks, constraints and external influences need to … Continue reading →
This post will provide a little more exposition and insight into one method I have found useful in practice for quickly defining desired end states. Done well, it can provide an honest and objective look to successfully understand where we truly want to be as an organization and face the uncomfortable truth in some cases where we need to improve. 
By Mac Lemon, MD Australia at Enterprise Architects Well the dust has settled now with the conclusion of The Open Group ‘Enterprise Transformation’ Conference held in Sydney, Australia for the first time on April 15-20. Enterprise Architects is proud to have been recognised at the event by The Open Group as being pivotal in the success of … … Continue reading →
Engaging in business activity always has associated with it some element of risk. Embedded in each risk is a probability that some threat, damage, injury, liability, loss or other negative business effect, caused by external or internal factors, may occur. … Continue reading →
As we saw in the last post, it is very important to understand that the most important aspect of Enterprise Architecture is alignment with business strategy. Cannot stress it enough – very very important!Technical architecture is important, cloud compu…