Changes coming
New books, new strategy, new location, for a new decade: that’s me. And with it, big changes coming up for me, all within the first half of the coming year. In late January, there’ll be the launch of the first…
Enterprise Architecture
From the Editor: Book Review – An Executive Guide to the New Age of Corporate IT (Vol I)
In our ongoing series of book reviews for publications relevant…
The Roles of Enterprise Architects in Innovation – Part 1
Earlier this year, we published a blog about how enterprise architects can contribute to innovation. In this blog series, we want to further explore the different roles enterprise architects can play in innovation in their organization. In general, we …
Standards of Security for EA Vendors
We’ve spoken about security on this blog before. We addressed how you can build a better protected organization with the help of enterprise architecture, for instance, and also collated our thoughts on improving cybersecurity with EA in a whitepaper (h…
Proposed Enterprise Architecture for the Centre of Medicare and Medicaid Services
A proposal for an Enterprise Architecture for the Centre…
Turn the Ship Around – Break Free from the Shackles of the Present
Background Across the globe, Enterprise Architecture teams deliver three key organizational functions. Firstly, they provide understanding of their current organization; this enables the organization to effectively control and regulate its existing ope…
Forest Fire Reduction using Enterprise Architecture
Forest Fire Reduction using Enterprise Architecture By Brian Dobony…
The Definitive EA Tool RFP Template
A Request for Proposal (or Request for Information) is a critical stage in any business transformation process. With the need to procure a professional tool onto which to anchor the enterprise architecture practice clearly identified, the next step is …
Things I learned while doing 24/7 eldercare
I’d been sort-of looking after my elderly mother for some years now – the whole of the past decade, probably, though more and more so over the years. Earlier this year it had reached the point where I couldn’t really…
ArchiMate 3.1: The New Version of the Standard
At the Open Group conference in Amsterdam in November 2019, the latest version of the ArchiMate modeling language for enterprise architecture was released. Version 3.1 is an update to the previous major version 3.0 (released in 2016). Despite being ‘ju…
ArchiMate® 3.1 Specification: The New Version of the Standard
At The Open Group event in Amsterdam on November 5, 2019, the latest version of the ArchiMate® modeling language for Enterprise Architecture was released. Version 3.1 is an update to the previous major version 3.0 (released in 2016). Despite being ‘just’ a minor version update, it holds a number of useful additions and improvements for Enterprise Architecture practitioners.
On power
What is power? Where does it come from? Where does it go? Who has it? Who doesn’t have it? Who should have it? Who shouldn’t have it? And why? – or why not, for that matter – to any of those questions…? Perennial questions indeed, in just about…