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Following is a transcript of part of the proceedings from The Open Group San Diego 2015 in February. The following presentations and panel discussion, which together examine the need and outlook for Cybersecurity standards amid supply chains, are provided by … Continue reading →
What is a good elevator speech for Enterprise Architecture? I usually say something like the following: “Enterprise Architecture is a strategic business capability that provides benefits to a business for: Digital strategy exploitation Cloud strategy implementation Business and IT Consolidation Business Transformation Cost reduction Business Process Improvement and innovation Exploiting opportunities for value creation Facilitating […]
IRM AB has its annual EA Träff in Stockholm on 17 March. John Gøtze will speak in the afternoon. His talk is about the EA3 approach to enterprise architecture, and how it relates to other EA approaches such as TOGAF.
In this post we continue to describe examples for ArchiMate modeling using a top-down modeling strategy. In the previous posting we presented some examples from the business architecture domain, in this posting we will cover three example…
A Background to EA – Celebrating the First 40 Years of EA is the title of the first EA Background that I’ve produced for Good e-Learning. It looks at the first 40 years of enterprise architecture by picking out a few of the key events that have formed the evolution of this emerging discipline, starting…
Design Thinking and Enterprise Architecture are different disciplines that are performed by different teams. While one focuses on streamlining the human experience in the enterprise, the other on optimising the enterprise by discovering, documenting an…
The need of the technology landscape IT-departments need to know the technology for which they are responsible. Operation need to know both the infrastructure and the applications they are operating, and so they register the technology from an operational perspective (preferably in a CMDB). In projects, you often see sketches of a technology mapping, as […]
Recently, I had a conversation with someone about how to do enterprise architecture. I prepared that conversation by trying to condense my basic argument for the`enterprise chess‘ approach to the absolute minimum. I started out with the question: “Suppose we don’t … Continue reading →
In a business context, a solution[1] is basically a set of products or services designed to meet a particular need. So looking for a solution implies to: Realize that there is something to address, to resolve Understand the nature of this ‘thing’ Clearly articulate the corresponding needs Determine the type of solution that could be […]
For many organizations, the big question is not if data is important, but how to manage it in order to be successful. Success, of course, is a big word and can mean different things to different people: from surviving in a highly competitive /…
In the past fifteen years, many internal IT departments of enterprises evolved from artisan organizations that only assembled and provided customized, tailor-made products, to hybrid craft and mass production organizations that provides custom as well as standard products. But nowadays … Continue reading
In the past fifteen years, many internal IT departments of enterprises evolved from artisan organizations that only assembled and provided customized, tailor-made products, to hybrid craft and mass production organizations that provides custom as well as standard products. But nowadays … Continue reading →