Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
It has been quite a while since I last posted here and I am very sorry for that. There is so much I want to do and share with the Enterprise Archtecture community which just piles up on a long (very long, indeed) list of things. Among quite some posts …
It’s time to make an end to the arguments that have plagued my professional-life and more for at least the past decade. And the simplest way to do that – to make that ending possible – is to reframe what…
It’s sometimes said that the real collective-noun for architects is an argument – ‘an argument of architects’. We see that often enough on LinkedIn, to be sure… Yet we’ve also seen it way too often on these pages here, or in…
The EU has instigated new sales tax rules which force people selling in the EU to charge the sales tax of the country where the buyer is located. This is a rule designed to fight tax evasion by large companies. … Continue reading →
As a teaser for the new year I thought I’d release The Change Canvas (TCC). Much more to come on this and related topics during 2015. The Change Canvas License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
By Stuart Boardman, Senior Business Consultant, Business & IT Advisory, KPN Consulting The Open Group Open Platform 3.0™ (OP3.0) services often involve a complex network of interdependent parties[1]. Each party has its own concept of the value it expects from … Continue reading →
Musing about the reasons why many large organizations see many of their IT initiatives fail or underachieve (see for example this recent report by the Dutch parliamentary commission on ICT, describing IT failures in government), I came up with a rather simple conclusion: ‘project thinking’ is the root cause of these disappointments. Let me explain.
Part of the efficiency of a company relies on the efficiency of its processes. Ideally, these processes are defined by identifying external actors (customers, providers, …) then by analysing the interaction between these actors and the company (business processes) and finally by defining how these interactions are managed and supported internally by the company (internal […]
“Speaking at CloudWorld Boston, Wang examined how the convergence of a host of technologies is powering digital disruption…
Digitalization of business is a key factor in this accelerated pace of change… Businesses differenti…
As organizations increasingly rely on digital technology, there is a growing demand for digital leaders. These are leaders who are both business and digital savvy. They are capable of quickly using technology to come up with business solutions. However, the best digital leaders know there is another important element to their role. They never lose […]
By Jim Hietala, VP Security, and Andrew Josey, Director of Standards, The Open Group This is the third in our four part blog series introducing the Open FAIR Body of Knowledge. In this blog, we look at how the Open … Continue reading →
This is the seventh posting in our series on using ArchiMate in practice. So far we have considered the mind of the architect as well as several ‘fundamentals’ in the language: the structure / behavior dichotomy, three layers, internal / external aspects of each domain, specialization, and the use of views & viewpoints. In this posting we will discuss some ‘philosophical’ and practical issues that you may run into when using ArchiMate.