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When looking at ArchiMate diagrams its easy to miss the fact they are part of a model, and not just pictures. This blog addresses the difference and demonstrates some basics around models. Continue reading →
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Someone asked on Linked-In Should EA be knowledgeable about accounting and its pitfalls? Here is a rewritten version of my reply.
Management accounting provides a view of the distribution of costs, benefits and risks. Costs include labour costs, mate…
#entarch #bizarch #viewpoints In a previous post, I looked at the five viewpoints of business architecture according to the OMG. In this post, I shall look at the architectural modelling viewpoints indicated in TOGAF 9.1. (Section 8.2). In TOGAF, these…
#bizarch #entarch Most enterprise architecture frameworks put LOCATION into the business architecture domain. So am I merely being contrarian when I ask whether it really belongs there?
My first point is that some IT people may regard the business arc…
#bizarch #entarch I have been challenged to explain the constructs underlying my Six Viewpoints of Business Architecture (blogpost, draft book), so here is a rough schema. Comments please.
Viewpoint
Key E…
#bizarch One of the Six Views of Business Architecture is the Management View or Cybernetic View. To understand this view, let’s start by asking what kind of thing management is.
One way of thinking about management is as a particular bundle of capabi…
#bizarch One of the Six Views of Business Architecture is the Management View or Cybernetic View. To understand this view, let’s start by asking what kind of thing management is.
One way of thinking about management is as a particular bundle of capabi…
#bizarch Does it make sense to produce a business architecture from a single viewpoint, such as a Process Viewpoint or a Capability Viewpoint? Or do we need a proliferation of viewpoints, perhaps arranged in a 2×2 matrix such as the Zachman Framework?
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#bizarch Does it make sense to produce a business architecture from a single viewpoint, such as a Process Viewpoint or a Capability Viewpoint? Or do we need a proliferation of viewpoints, perhaps arranged in a 2×2 matrix such as the Zachman Framework?
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As the systems thinking pioneer Gregory Bateson pointed out, there is an important difference between seeing with one eye and seeing with two. With monocular vision even the much prized Big Picture can be merely a flat and featureless panorama. Bino…
As the systems thinking pioneer Gregory Bateson pointed out, there is an important difference between seeing with one eye and seeing with two. With monocular vision even the much prized Big Picture can be merely a flat and featureless panorama. Bino…
#entarch @lapalj has written an interesting article on the Three Schools of Enterprise Architecture.
The schools are distinguished along two dimensions: scope and ends (purpose).
Scopes Ends
Enterprise wide IT platform (EIT). All compone…