Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
An Enterprise Architecture is able to contribute significant value no matter the size or the nature of the business. A business can be anything from a single person operation through to a multinational conglomerate or a government. All have missions … Continue reading →
An Enterprise Architecture is able to contribute significant value no matter the size or the nature of the business. A business can be anything from a single person operation through to a multinational conglomerate or a government. All have missions … Continue reading →
As Business Capabilities are directly derived from the corporate strategic plan and are designed to satisfy the enterprise’s business strategies, goals and objectives, so they provide an excellent basis for the creation of an Enterprise Architecture Roadmap. What are Business Capabilities? A Business Capability represents the ability of an organisation to perform an activity that […]
The enterprise architecture development should be evaluated to assess1. its scope, if it covers the whole enterprise or at least it plans to, starting with the parts specifically demanded. A reference (business) architecture …
I have recently come across a web site EA Voices (eavoices.com/) produced by John Gøtze. This is described as an Aggregated Enterprise Architecture Wisdom and I have found it to be a good collection of articles and recommend it to all Enterprise Architects out there. Filed under: Blogroll, EA Magazines, Enterprise Architecture
What is Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Architecture is essentially a strategic planning discipline for ensuring that all the strategies of an enterprise are well executed. How should we measure it and how it is performing? First it’s best to clearly understand what Enterprise Architecture is and who it is for. Enterprise Architecture bridges the gap between […]
A friend of mine Ian Glossop, is doing a survey of views on Enterprise Architecture, and as many of you are Enterprise Architects he would appreciate your views on the subject. I know your time is precious, and the survey is a little long, but nevertheless may I urge you to take a little time […]
Link: http://enklare.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/architecture-in-the-domain-of-economics/ From Achieving Business Outcome With Enterprise Architecture 00
How to use SCAN as a ‘decision-dartboard’ in work-planning? That was probably the highlight in a great conversation outside the IRM-EAC conference in London earlier this week with Kai Schlüter, enterprise-architect at Danish engineering conglomerate Danfoss. Kai heads up a team…
In my first blog on this site, ‘For What It’s Worth’, I referred to Ross Button’s Scatter Architecture.
We had a really successful Enterprise Architecture (EA) track at Innovate this year — June 2 thru 6, 2013; our best one yet! EA Birds of a Feather session — EA Best Practices — we had about 80 people in the room. Standing room only. We had 16 EA presentations, most of them by customers […]
As you know, Troux recently joined other industry experts in support of the Penn State Center for Enterprise Architecture (EA) program. The fact that Penn State’s Center for EA Architecture is receiving industry wide support and recognition is a testament to how the discipline of EA is hitting its stride.
On Wednesday, June 12, Troux hosted a webinar featuring Dr. Brian Cameron, Executive Director
of the Center for Enterprise Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University, to discuss framework for determining how to best measure EA value within your organization. The webinar broke registration and attendance records and we were thrilled at the level of participation and engagement from attendees! (If you’ve ever sat through a particularly dry webinar, you know exactly what we mean.) We’re fielding requests for access to the replay left and right. And this tells us that we nailed it. EA professionals are out there, they understand that value measurement is imperative to their programs’ success, and they want to know more.
A recognized thought leader in the EA field, Dr. Cameron shared his insights on tackling the challenge of value measurement, which—while typically cited as a key area of importance for an EA program—is the least mature category in the discipline and the toughest to capture. When all is said and done measuring the value of EA is not straightforward or easy. Dr. Cameron’s insights highlighted – measuring EA value takes analytical skills and organizational finesse, making the task part art and part science. Sometimes results cannot be successfully achieved without third party involvement.
Troux has long recognized the challenges of the discipline. We’ve seen it across organizations of all sizes and all verticals. We’ve got some pretty good war stories. So, when we heard that Penn State was putting together a program to develop successful EA professionals who will be able to integrate business with technology and then analyze, justify, and communicate the solution to enterprise architecture problems, we said, “How can we help?”
As we mentioned in our last blog post, old data methods don’t work in terms of value measurement. Curious about what does? You can view the replay here.
