The Open Group Speakers Discuss Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture and Enterprise Transformation

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By Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions Listen to the recorded podcast here: Expert Panel Explores Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture as Enterprise Transformation Agents, or read the transcript here. Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to a special BriefingsDirect Thought Leadership interview series, coming to you in conjunction with The Open Group Conference on April 15, in … … Continue reading →

The System Context Diagram

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We use a system context diagram in the early stages of our Investigative Architecture™ process. It provides a high level functional view of a system and, while it is very powerful for the early stages of functional design, it also ensures you have identified any functional needs that impact the non-functional, or architectural, aspects of […]

Metrics for qualitative requirements

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Just how should we handle qualitative requirements in system-design and enterprise-architecture? Should we, for example, reframe them into quantitative terms, as metrics – because it’s a lot easier to keep track of ‘measurable things’? Over the past couple of days…

Capabilities Demystified – Part 3

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Assessing Business Capabilities Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is largely driven by three factors. First, business leaders at all levels find capabilities an appealing and useful way to think about growing their organization’s impact. Second, capabilities are versatile, easily applied to high level strategic activities […]

The Open Group Conference in Sydney Plenary Sessions Preview

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Taking place April 15-18, 2013, The Open Group Conference in Sydney will bring together industry experts to discuss the evolving role of Enterprise Architecture and how it transforms the enterprise. As the conference quickly approaches, let’s take a deeper look into the plenary sessions that kick-off day one and two. … Continue reading →

Thinking About Big Data

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As the consumerization of technology continues to grow and converge, our way of constructing business models and systems need to evolve as well. We need to let data drive the business process, and incorporate intelligent machines like Watson into our infrastructure to help us turn data into actionable results. … Continue reading →

Conference presentations and workshops

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I have a few new conference dates coming up. I will be presenting on Visual Stories at the Gartner EA Summit in London on May 14/15, and hosting a roundtable after the presentation.

Find out more and book your space at the conference website.

http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EPAEU13/webpages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=824

I will also be delivering a one day workshop on the use of CAST and visual storytelling at a workshop that preceeds the Enterprise Architect Europe conference and the Business Process Management conference in London on June 11th 2013.

Sign up on the conference website.

http://www.irmuk.co.uk/eac2013/workshops.cfm#w2

Conference presentations and workshops

by

 

I have a few new conference dates coming up. I will be presenting on Visual Stories at the Gartner EA Summit in London on May 14/15, and hosting a roundtable after the presentation.

Find out more and book your space at the conference website.

http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EPAEU13/webpages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=824

I will also be delivering a one day workshop on the use of CAST and visual storytelling at a workshop that preceeds the Enterprise Architect Europe conference and the Business Process Management conference in London on June 11th 2013.

Sign up on the conference website.

http://www.irmuk.co.uk/eac2013/workshops.cfm#w2

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Very Qool

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If you’ve got Windows 8 then there’s now a free app you can download to help create the Visual Story Map, which is the core model in the visual storytelling approach from my book Stories That Move Mountains. Qool (http://qool.598studiosinc.com/) allows…