5 Take Aways from the Enterprise Architecture Conference – 15-18 June 2015, London

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The forthcoming IRM Enterprise Architecture Conference in London is always a good forum to hear what other people are doing in EA. Looking at the topics on the agenda is a good way to get a feeling for the direction that EA is taking. Here are the 5 takeaways that EA are listing for the…

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Enabling the Boundaryless Organization the Goal of The Open Group Madrid Summit 2015

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The Open Group, the global vendor-neutral IT consortium, is hosting its latest event in Madrid April 20 – 23 2015. The event is set to build on the success of previous events and focus on the challenge of building a … Continue reading →

“Force Generation” Architecture: Core Objectives

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In this second posting, we will elaborate on the first part of Force Generation Architecture: the Core Objectives. We shall review the military approach and principles, followed by drawing the parallel with our case at hand. By that we will emphasize the importance of understanding ‘the grand plan’ and – subsequently to this – identify the relevant stakeholders, their concerns and their ability to act.

The Annual Digitalization Reunion

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QualiWare Center of Excellence has Booth 1 at the annual Danish Government Digitalization Conference (#offdig) in Aarhus on 24-25 March. Rune Brodersen and John Gøtze will be available at the booth both days, so feel free to drop by for a chat. Or for a demo of some of our new offerings: Archimate OIOEA Capability models Business Model […]

Enterprise Architecture and Systems Thinking – by Ian Glossop

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Enterprise Architecture is a young, immature discipline that produces models to guide the development of an enterprise. It is generally recognised to date back to the late 1980s or early 1990s and the work of Zachman, Spewak and others though it really took-off in the late 1990s and early years of the 21st Century.  But methodological disciplines do not emerge complete […]

Smart use of Data: how to design a supply chain and use it properly!

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If we look at current IT-trends it is easy to say everybody has heard of Big Data. Although there are some known successes (for example US retailer Target which through its extensive data could predict pregnancy faster than the involved person) many compiling companies spend millions (or even billions) of dollars hoarding big data, without properly using it at all. According to Gartner, 85% of Fortune 500 organizations won’t be able to exploit their big data usefully in 2015. Now the key to using data at all, is knowing that you don’t necessarily need all data. As long as you know which data can be useful to your company – and maybe even more important – WHERE it is useful within your company, you don’t need to spend half of your budget on stacking information.