Swedish EA Summit
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.
ArchiMate Modeling in Practice Top-down: App and infra models
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…
Celebrating the First 40 Years of Enterprise Architecture
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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The relation between Design Thinking and Enterprise Architecture
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 Technology Landscape
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 […]
Losing a Limpet – What happens when we don’t have Enterprise Architecture?
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 →
The (not so obvious) path to a solution
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 […]
Implementing a Data Governance Capability
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 /…
Cloud Computing, ownership matters
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
Cloud Computing, ownership matters
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 →
Is the Value Chain concept still valid today? More than ever.
Porter’s value chain outlines the key activities of an enterprise.
Today though, the question arises, does the rapid progress of the technology in the enterprise render the Value Chain insignificant?
The question came at least …
The Open Group San Diego Panel Explores Synergy Among Major Frameworks in Enterprise Architecture
Following is a transcript of part of the proceedings from The Open Group San Diego event in February – a panel discussion on The Synergy of Enterprise Architecture frameworks. The following panel, which examines the synergy among the major Enterprise … Continue reading →