Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Before the start of the football season, football journalists have little to write about except transfer speculation – wondering which player might be about to transfer from one overpaid job to another overpaid job. This period is known as the Transfer…
I got a great question from Bill Cooke about my Technology Governance in a Simple Model post. He brought up questions about how a CIO supports innovation and opportunistic activities. Here is my response to Bill: Bill, Thanks for taking time to read my…
Lets look at the fundamental aspect of creating an Enterprise Architecture brand within your company – Enablement OR Control?In some organizations, the “control” part of EA is given an unhealthy amount of attention. Not that control is not important, b…
Lets look at the fundamental aspect of creating an Enterprise Architecture brand within your company – Enablement OR Control?In some organizations, the “control” part of EA is given an unhealthy amount of attention. Not that control is not important, b…
Welcome to financial year 2014! Whew! July marks the new financial year and for some of us, the end of a strategy, planning and budgeting cycle. Once again, I had the opportunity to design and facilitate my organization’s business strategy, plann…
Welcome to financial year 2014! Whew! July marks the new financial year and for some of us, the end of a strategy, planning and budgeting cycle. Once again, I had the opportunity to design and facilitate my organization’s business strategy, planning and budgeting process and it seems that each time I learn tons. As a…
..continued from previous.As suspected, the approach ends up with a process map, sliding back into familar territory to BP Trends.The process map (here is the process architecture method again) consists of Management, Core and Support p…
…continued from previous post. This BP Trends advisor proposes a method to develop a business process architecture which…In fig. 4 and 5, the customer, interacting with various links of the value chain, is placed at the end of t…
Despite all the incumbent benefits offered to businesses that own and operate their own Private Cloud, adoption rates since its emergence have been slower than anticipated, especially across Government organisations. This is largely the result of repeated reports from experts warning against the associated security risks that come from placing sensitive data in cyber space. …
This BP Trends advisor proposes a method to develop a business process architecture which, to quote, “briefly walks through one approach to developing a comprehensive business process architecture–the approach used by BPTrends Associate…
By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications at The Open Group. We are winding down Day 3 and gearing up for the next two days of training and workshops. Today’s subject areas included TOGAF®, ArchiMate®, Risk Management, Innovation Management, … Continue reading →
In part 9 of “Memoirs of an Enterprise Architect” I discussed some key Enterprise Architecture (EA) concepts and provided simplified definitions. I would like to continue this discussion and ask that you comment with your thoughts.
Enterprise Arc…