An Interview with John Zachman

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In January 2015, the Open Group published an interview giving A Historical Look at Enterprise Architecture with John Zachman. It includes a fascinating account about how John got involved in enterprise architecture in the first place, and how he came to develop what is now known as the Zachman Framework. Importantly – although his work…

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Is the Digital Workspace New? Lessons from Building 20

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Imagine a place of work where the windows leaked—or fell out if the winds got high enough, the roof leaked to the point of pouring through in heavy rain, and soot blew in from the city. It was searing hot in summer and freezing cold in winter and there was “always the noise, the strange, […]

Cybersecurity Standards: The Open Group Explores Security and Ways to Assure Safer Supply Chains

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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 →

Elevator Speech for Enterprise Architecture

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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 […]

Celebrating the First 40 Years of Enterprise Architecture

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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…

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