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The intersect between Customer Experience Design and Enterprise Architecture is an interesting development in the world of business transformation. To help our customers get a better understanding of this subject, we asked Marc Lankhorst, Managing Cons…
In the previous two posts in this series on background behind futures for enterprise-architecture (see video), we explored the idea of a focus on value, rather than money, as the anchor for our architectures; and then set out to imagine a world…
After the previous post, we’re left with a question to explore: Does money really make the world go round? Or would our world actually be better without it? Let’s put it to the test… We know already that money doesn’t…
Document templates have some fantastic benefits – but I tend to avoid relying on them heavily. This blog discusses why. Continue reading →
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During this two-day workshop at your organization, Cutter Senior Consultant Mike Rosen will explore the requirements for the new digital economy and describe the new “Digital Business Platform” necessary to meet those requirements and sustain success. …
As enterprise-architecture expands outward (see video) to a much broader scope and scale (see video), we’ll need a different kind of anchor for the architecture itself: less on means such as IT or money, more on aims, ends and purpose. In short, a…
The advent of public cloud services has enabled smaller companies to compete more effectively against larger enterprises. This article discusses phenomenon and using DevOps and agile thinking to help large companies compete with small organizations. Co…
An enterprise architect friend of mine recently posed an interesting question: “I lead a relatively mature EA practice that delivers good value to our organization. We are digitally transforming the organization and adopting agile ways of working acros…
What exactly is ‘the enterprise’ in enterprise-architecture? To what extent is that enterprise a shared-enterprise? And how does this affect enterprise-architecture itself? These questions have come up a lot in the past few weeks, in back-and-forth conversations on LinkedIn and elsewhere. The…
I get models and diagrams presented to me in many different forms and levels of quality. In this blog I want to look at talk at improving ArchiMate Model Quality by telling a story with your Archimate views, and covering some other basics. Continue re…
@rachelcoldicutt notes that “Google Docs new grammar suggestion tool doesn’t like the word ‘funding’ and prefers ‘investment’ “.Many business people have an accounting mindset, in which all expenditure must be justified in terms of benefit to the organ…
Creating a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) requires thought and planning. This blog explores what a BCP is, a high level approach to defining a BCP and how it differs from a Disaster Recover Plan (DRP). Continue reading →
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