Enterprise Architecture and Capability-Based Planning

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Business capabilities are stable building blocks that define what an organization does. They encompass elements such as people, processes and systems that come together to realize specific functions. Due to their relatively lasting nature and the way they consolidate various cross-domain components, capabilities are a very useful tool for facilitating dialogue between stakeholders on the business and…

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Enterprise Architecture and Strategic Investment Planning

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Even when an Enterprise Architecture practice is present in an organization, it is most often understood to be either strictly preoccupied with the management of IT, or at most with the management of business and IT together, but&#1…

Getting The Most Out Of An EA Tool

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At work we use Bizzdesign’s Enterprise Studio (BES). I wanted to talk a little about getting the most out of an EA tool like this, if you want to get to a more advanced level of architecture model maturity. Yes its true, I like Enterprise Studio, but not because of any affiliation with the company; […]

THE OPEN GROUP FACE™ AND SOSA™ FIRST VIRTUAL TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE MEETING (TIM)

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The Open Group was pleased to host the first Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™)  and Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA™)  Virtual Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM),

Service, product, service – implications for architectures

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If service and product are different views into the same space, how would we use that in enterprise-architecture, service-design, product-design and suchlike? In the previous post, ‘Service, product, service, simplified‘, we explored a metaphor that perhaps doesn’t sound simple at …

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Enterprise Architecture and the Project Management Office

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Planning and executing change is a key capability for organizations in this day and age. However, in order to do this successfully, businesses – especially large ones – must overcome the heavy burden of complexity that generally adds up as the organiza…

Service, product, service, simplified

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What is a service? What is a product? How do they relate with each other? And what’s a simple way to describe all of this? Yes, I’ve written a fair bit about this already – for example, ‘Product and service‘, …

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