Facing the Challenges of the Healthcare Industry – An Interview with Eric Stephens of The Open Group Healthcare Forum

By The Open Group The Open Group launched its new Healthcare Forum at the Philadelphia conference in July 2013. The forum’s focus is on bringing Boundaryless Information Flow™ to the healthcare industry to enable data to flow more easily throughout … Continue reading

The Open Group San Francisco 2014 – Day Two Highlights

By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications Day two, February 4th, of The Open Group San Francisco conference kicked off with a welcome and opening remarks from Steve Nunn, COO of The Open Group and CEO of the Association … Continue reading

TOGAF Poster 18 – Deliverables, Artifacts and Building Blocks

TOGAF uses a very specific language to describe the outputs that architects produce. This poster highlights the key things you need to know. Download this free poster from Good e-Learning now!

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Integrated Information Infrastructure – Reference Model – Free Poster

The Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM) is one of the two reference models provided by TOGAF. Get this free poster from Good e-Learning which summarizes the key features.

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On layers in enterprise-architecture

How many layers are there in an enterprise-architecture? If we read any of the standard texts, you’ll see there are several popular answers. For example, Archimate says there are three: Business, Application and Technology. TOGAF says there are four: Business, Data,

Architecture Frameworks – too complex and multi-dimensional?

Following the recent The Open Group’s “Business Transformation in Finance, Government & Healthcare” conference in London, I was pleased to see this comment about Lean Enterprise Architecture: “We were told that Standard Frameworks are too complex and multidimensional – people were interested in how we use them to provide simple working guidelines to the architecture…

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TOGAF Poster 17 – The Architecture Repository

The Architecture Repository is where architects store work outputs. This poster provides an overview of how TOGAF defines the architecture repository. Download this free poster from Good e-Learning.

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The Architecture Continuum

Free Poster to DownloadDownload this free poster from Good e-learning to learn about the Architecture Continuum, which helps to build organization-specific architectures.

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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