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All that discussion about capabilities – yeah, great, fine. But how do we use them? How do we use this notion of ‘capabilities’ in designing our business-models and suchlike? I was kinda reminded about this from another direction yesterday, in a great…
Where do business architects go to learn about their profession? Take this survey to find out. Interest in business architecture is growing dramatically. Though there is a great deal of discussion, there is little consensus about what business architecture is, how it should be pursued, and what value it delivers. Where do business architects and […]
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We previously discussed Options Analysis – our method for evaluating multiple viable technical solutions. We also facilitate numerous smaller design choices at all levels of the architecture. We often need to document these as “design decisions,” and use a common approach and format to document at all levels of design (conceptual, logical, physical, component, etc.). […]
Is culture essentially chaotic? Or is it a complex adaptive system? So asks Stephen Bounds in his post ‘Chaos, complexity and CASes‘ – itself a response to William Powell’s ‘Culture is chaotic‘. Both posts are well worth a read, and seems…
“Every business is an information business.” That was the first line of an infographic I saw this morning. And yep, no doubt about it: every business is indeed an information business. But there’s a rather important word that’s missing there: also.…
Bitcoin continues to creep forward in terms of credibility and accessibility. I recently signed up to mtgox.com and it took almost 4 weeks for my account to be activated but […]
This is the time of year when I seem to notice the speed at which other drivers on the road are traveling, and when I say "speed" what I mean is the plodding, lethargic, and dawdling forward movement of my roadway cohabitants. What is it that causes drivers to suddenly assume that speed limits are upper-end suggestions, and not the result of engineering to balance safety and throughput?
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This is the time of year when I seem to notice the speed at which other drivers on the road are traveling, and when I say "speed" what I mean is the plodding, lethargic, and dawdling forward movement of my roadway cohabitants. What is it that causes drivers to suddenly assume that speed limits are upper-end suggestions, and not the result of engineering to balance safety and throughput?
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There seems to be as many ways of talking about capabilities as there are ways of putting a shoe together. To add to the confusion functions, processes and other concepts of enterprise architecture is widely used as capabilities. Here I refer to capabilities as the core skills that we must master as a social system […]
This one’s really straightforward: it’s just a follow-up to a public request on Twitter by Bizzdesign consultant Bas van Gils: basvg: I am looking for definitions of these concepts, please help: capability, capability based planning, capability increment, capability map I’ve…
What have been the most important things in enterprise architecture throughout 2013? I am sure anything you can come up with have been covered by the EA blogger community. So, to get an overview of what has been happening in 2013 in EA, take a look at the 2013 archives of EA Voices. With an average …