Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
It has been a while ago but I’m happy to share some additional results of my PhD. I will present on the upcoming Conference on Business Informatics (CBI2016) a paper called “Enterprise Architects Should Play Different Roles”. The paper is … Continue reading →
In our previous blog, we outlined some of the most important changes in relationships in ArchiMate 3.0. But there is more… This blog will discuss changes relating to the Grouping and Junction concepts.
It seems like everyone wants to be an innovator nowadays. Being “digital” is in – never mind what it means, you’ve just got to be “digital”. Being innovative, however, is more than being buzzword-compliant. Being innovative, particularly in a digital sense, means solving problems (for customers, not yourself) in a new way with technology. […]
Quantum Universal Exchange Language Implicate order and explicate order are concepts coined by David Bohm to describe two different frameworks for understanding the same phenomenon or aspect of reality.He uses these notions to describe how the same phenomenon might look different, or might be characterized by different principal factors, in different contexts such as at different scales. Macro […]
ArchiMate 3 is setup with 5-6 layers (Strategy, Business, Application, Technology/Physical, Implementation) and 4 aspects: (Passive and Active) Structure, Behaviour and Motivation. Quoting the standard: This looks daunting until you realise that not everything that is called a ‘layer’ is … Continue reading →
In our previous blogs, we have mainly focused on the new layers and elements of the ArchiMate 3.0 language. Although these concepts are the first changes that catch the eye in ArchiMate 3.0, there are also several improvements in the use of relationshi…
Kind of a personal landmark, I guess: today I reach so-called ‘retirement-age’, where I’m supposedly meant to kick back, relax and walk away from all of the stresses of a lifetime of work. Hmm… no chance of that happening, is…
Unless you’re living under a rock, it’s a near certainty that you’ve seen at least one Downfall parody video (although I hadn’t realized just how long these had been around until I started working on this post…time flies!). There’s a reason why they’ve managed to hang on as a meme as long as they have. […]
Recently I met with an urban planner in relation to a planned digitisation project. He was highly critical on the lacking understanding and foresight of business, enterprise and solution architects in his domain. He even went as far as saying that he as trained and chartered architect could not see the fundamentals that made architects … Continue reading When architecture meets architecture →
True Enterprise Architecture (True-EA) is quite simply architecting the enterprise. “Isn’t this what Enterprise Architecture always has been?” you may be asking yourself. In actuality, the overwhelming majority of EA efforts that we have come in contac…
True Enterprise Architecture (True-EA) is quite simply architecting the enterprise. “Isn’t this what Enterprise Architecture always has been?” you may be asking yourself. In actuality, the overwhelming majority of EA efforts that we have come in contact with over the…
For me, the past couple of months or so has been somewhat of a whirl: keynotes and several other presentations at five conferences, a blur of small consultancy-gigs, maybe a dozen workshops, and a whole lot more, across six countries…