Posts from 2015:
- The cost of bad IT begins with a poor situation appraisal
- Metatheory and enterprise-architecture
- The cost of bad IT increases with poor situation appraisal
- Probabilistic Modeling, Predictive Analytics & Intelligent Design from Multiple Medical Knowledge Sources
- Visualizing IT at DHS
- The cost of bad IT (i)
- The KPI misery
- Clinical Decisions and Empirical Dilemma :- Priori Knowledge independent of Experience vs Posterior Knowledge dependent on Experience
- Form Follows Function on SPaMCast 373
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – Conclusion
- Serious Request 2015
- Serious Request 2015
- Using block chains outside of finance
- Kahneman, the recipient Nobel prize (with Tversky and others) provided important insights concerning Clinicians decision-making under uncertainty
- Semantic Data Lake Delivering Tacit Knowledge – Evidence based Clinical Decision Support
- Clinical Data Analytics – Loss of Innocence (Predictive Analytics) in a Large High Dimensional Semantic Data Lake
- Evidence based Medicine driven by Inferential Statistics – Hyperbolic Dirac Net
- TOGAF® 9 Certifications Exceed 50,000
- The costs of bad IT
- Architect Your Predictive Analytics Capability To Unleash The Power Of Digital Business
- Architect Your Predictive Analytics Capability To Unleash The Power Of Digital Business
- Driving Digital Transformation Using Enterprise Architecture
- The startling truth of the Overton Window
- How Bad Data Management Kills Revenue
- How Bad Data Management Kills Revenue
- Dynamic Data in REST
- What framework should I use?
- Another view on SCORE
- paul hermans
- The Seductive Myth of Greenfield Development
- The relevance of surveys
- If You Had a Choice, Would You Buy Your Brand of IT?
- The 20th Anniversary of the UNIX® Standard and Certification
- McKinsey’s practical ideas for managing EA (ii)
- All models may be wrong, but it’s not a contest to see how wrong you can be
- Looking good
- McKinsey’s practical ideas for managing EA (i)
- McKinsey’s practical ideas for managing EA
- US Visit January 2016
- US Visit January 2016
- Archimate Modeling in Practice – Change Portfolio
- Changing Organizations Without Changing People
- Big Data Analytics – Unlock Breakthrough Results: (Step 3)
- Can you afford microservices?
- Using SCORE to reframe the business-model
- Overestimation on your and others to control ourself
- Cyber Monday 2015 Deal
- Cyber Monday 2015 Deal
- Enterprise Investment Infograhic
- The Quantum Organization
- The Quantum Organization
- Black Friday 2015 Deal
- Black Friday 2015 Deal
- To be or not to be Bimodal
- The dilemma of standards
- Small detail, big impact
- Archimate Modeling in Practice – Planning realization
- Designing the Business of IT
- Big Data Analytics – Unlock Breakthrough Results: Step Two (2)
- Form Follows Function on SPaMCast 369
- Semmelweis
- IRMUK EAC 2016
- Bimodal, Agile and DevOps
- Disruption and Emergence: What does it mean for Enterprise Architecture?
- Disruption and Emergence: What does it mean for Enterprise Architecture?
- Organizations and Innovation – Swim or Die!
- Open Letter to TOG #5
- Architects as Alchemists
- Bimodal IT and its relevance or lack of
- Update on Deconfliction
- Update on Deconfliction
- Big Data Analytics – Unlock Breakthrough Results (Step 1)
- Inflection Points and the Ingredients of Innovation
- The family
- Trust or Process or Both?
- Trust or Process or Both?
- Fixing IT – Too Big to Succeed?
- Would the Participating term reflect better the Sharing business model (iii)
- Marketing architecture
- The Open Group Reaches 500th Membership Milestone
- Big Data Analytics – Nine Easy Steps to Unlock Breakthrough Results
- Application Portfolio Management for Finance – Slaying the Dragon
- The Digital Business
- We Deliver Decisions (Who Needs Architects?)
- The pitfalls of Sharing
- Forrester’s 2016 Predictions: Turn Data Into Insight And Action
- Forrester’s 2016 Predictions: Turn Data Into Insight And Action
- Are your employees taking initiatives ?
- Planning fallacy
- Some basic business capability map patterns (level 0)
- Modernizing the modernization strategy
- Modernizing the modernization strategy
- The New Economics of Manufacturing
- The New Economics of Manufacturing
- What Sharing brings new is the flexible workforce and assets available on demand (1)
- Upgrading the EA Role
- Selective Perception
- The win-win-win… of the Sharing enterprise (i)
- Engineer, Get Over Yourself
- Why is the sharing paradigm taking industries by storm?
- Data Science On Non-Locality, Hidden Problems and Lack of Information
- The Customer Card
- IBM And Teradata — A Tale Of Two Vendors’ Struggle With Disruption
- IBM And Teradata — A Tale Of Two Vendors’ Struggle With Disruption
- Hearts and Stars and Prison Riots (User Experience Matters)
- A Meta Framework
- Steve Nunn Takes Up the Reigns as New President and CEO of The Open Group
- ICD – 10; Medical Knowledge Extraction with Increasing Variables Means Dealing with Billions of Probabilities.
- Enterprise Architecture Trends 2015
- Let’s Talk Value (Who Needs Architects?)
- Lengthening misery
- Outcomes of an Australian EA tour
- EA Practice Advisor
- How do I become an Enterprise Architect: Step 4 – Skills
- Big Data Analytics and Cheap Suits
- An Enterprise Modelling method
- Enterprise Architecture Trends 2015
- Semantic Technology Is Not Only For Data Geeks
- Semantic Technology Is Not Only For Data Geeks
- The Open Group Edinburgh 2015 Highlights
- Opening up the Mendix model specification & tools ecosystem
- Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture and Mastering ArchiMate Edition II (both PDF) now available as bundle
- Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture and Mastering ArchiMate Edition II (both PDF) now available as bundle
- Information
- The Idea Card
- Balancing Complexity and Continuous Improvements – A Case Study from the Automotive Industry
- Business Model as a Value Chain
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – Gap Analysis
- FEAC Annual EA Awards
- Enterprise Architecture Inquiry
- Enterprise Architecture Inquiry
- A Presentation on ICT for Lawyers
- A Presentation on ICT for Lawyers
- Form Follows Function on SPaMCast 365
- First Do No Harm – the Practice of Software Development
- Enterprise Thinking
- Enterprise Architecture vs modelling the enterprise
- The crux of comparing
- Enterprise Architecture Management IS Collaboration – Gartner Doesn’t Get It
- A Personal Appeal
- IT4IT™ Reference Architecture Version 2.0, an Open Group Standard
- Enterprise Architecture at the Crossroads
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – Defining the application landscape
- The Open Group Edinburgh—The State of Boundaryless Information Flow™ Today
- Agile Development And Data Management Do Coexist
- Agile Development And Data Management Do Coexist
- Full Stack Enterprises (Who Needs Architects?)
- Savings
- Healthcare Interoperability, Standards and Data Science
- Business Patterns and EA
- Architecture Principles considered harmful
- The Business of Fun!
- Enterprise Architecture – the Eight Fundamental Factors
- Attribution error in architecture
- Locking Down the Prisoners: Control, Conflict and Compliance for Organizations
- The Open Group Edinburgh 2015: BAE Systems – Using TOGAF® for Operations Transformation
- The Entity Card
- The Entity Card
- Application Portfolio Management in Local Government
- Would you hire an Enterprise Architect?
- Risk
- Open Letter to TOG #3
- ArchOps
- Cartesian Dilemma Afflicts the EHR Incentive Program compromising the mission of Healthcare Interoperability
- False consensus effect
- Modelling a rich business service (What was wrong with that picture?)
- Strategic Planning – Ideas to Delivery
- 2nd Edition
- ArchiMateModeling in Practice – Reference models
- How to re-organise the enterprise around services (ii)
- The myth of the providential man
- Enterprise architect as business-anarchist
- How to re-organise the enterprise around services (i)
- Enterprise Stockholm syndrome
- Open Letter to TOG #4
- An Enchantment Tale
- Mac OS X El Capitan Achieves UNIX® Certification
- Base rate fallacy
- Renaming This Blog
- How to re-organise the enterprise around services
- Information Security Breaches Visualized
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – Fleshing out the MDM part
- The organisation of a Service Based Enterprise
- Key transformational steps of architecture away from ICT
- Managing The Complexity Of Hybrid Cloud: Learn From Leading Chinese Firms
- Managing The Complexity Of Hybrid Cloud: Learn From Leading Chinese Firms
- From Distinction to Value and Back
- Why service, function and capability
- The Open Group ArchiMate® Model Exchange File Format and Archi 3.3
- Gathering useful information
- Are Data Preparation Tools Changing Data Governance?
- Is culture-change the same as software-change?
- What is wrong with this picture?
- The Service Based Organization
- Course Format
- BiZZdesign’s House of Application Portfolio Management
- Congratulations to The Open Group Open Certified Architect (Open CA) on its 10th Anniversary!
- Your Next Business Transformations will require a Hybrid Cloud Architecture
- Your Next Business Transformations will require a Hybrid Cloud Architecture
- The future for enterprise architects
- The future for enterprise architects
- Enterprise Architecture Awards 2015 – Effectiveness And Innovation Lays The Path To Value
- Scrum masters are not project managers
- Upcoming EA tour in Australia
- The logical problem of security architecture
- Big-consultancies and getting it right
- The Service Based Organization rather than Holacracy
- On Holacracy, the organization paradigm (ii)
- Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture available as PDF
- The dark side of sensationalism in architecture
- Startup 101 – A great set of resources
- Startup 101 – A great set of resources
- 2015 HP Software South Central User Forum
- Big-consultancies and bridging the chasm
- Archimate Modeling In Practice – wrapping up the baseline architecture
- The Open Group to Host Event in Edinburgh in October
- Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture now available as iBook
- Pride and Prejudice
- Now is the Time to Prepare for Desktop-Class Tablets in the Enterprise
- Now is the Time to Prepare for Desktop-Class Tablets in the Enterprise
- So Long but Not Goodbye
- Data Governance and Data Management Are Not Interchangeable
- Productivity versus efficiency
- Seven sins and the Hype Cycle
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – Brainstorm
- Fly Your IT Higher to Avoid Turbulence
- Luddite, and proud
- The Top Technology Trends To Watch: 2016 To 2018
- On Holacracy, the organization paradigm (i)
- Enterprise Investment Certification Course
- BPM Professional Certification Training
- Strategic Enterprise Design seminar in Denmark
- The whole experience
- Perceptions of Time in EA Teams
- Perceptions of Time in EA Teams
- On Holacracy, the organization paradigm
- Why a bad architecture is better than a consensus arrived one
- My New EA Opportunity
- From the Editor: Combating Application Platform Entropy
- Exact Lives Save Change
- Autumn Events 2015
- Autumn Events 2015
- HP Software Mid-Atlantic Customer Forum
- Semiotics as the base how we model our world
- Open Letter to TOG #2
- The Open Trusted Technology Provider™ Standard (O-TTPS) Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard
- LeanCoach. Analysis – Value Stream Map
- Why did I become an Enterprise Architect?
- Going Digital & Agile Architecture
- Going Digital & Agile Architecture
- TOGAF ADM Planner – An Interactive Resource | Good e-Learning
- The danger of silo architecture
- WHITE PAPER: Strategic Stories
- Context-perspectives and enterprise-architecture maturity
- Enterprise Architects Must Prepare Their Organizations to Manage Big Data
- Enterprise Architects Must Prepare Their Organizations to Manage Big Data
- The Big Issue, the Business Architecture (ii)
- A worthwhile reality check
- More on IT Reporting Structure
- Seven sins, sensemaking and OODA
- Regression toward the mean
- The August Lull
- Another milestone: 200,000 views for the Mastering #ArchiMate blog
- The Big Issue, the Business Architecture (i)
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – picking up steam again
- Tools
- Engineering versus Management thinking
- The Big Issue, the Business Architecture
- When I’m Sixty-Four
- Is architecture art?
- Supporters not Customers
- Seven sins – a worked example (‘Natural rights’)
- On Stupidity – BYOD
- You May Not Need A CDO — But Wouldn’t You Want To Improve Your Odds Of Success?
- Seven sins – 7: Lost In The Learning-Labyrinth
- INFOGRAPHIC: 2014/15 Market Trends
- Seven sins – 6: The Reality Risk
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – project interruptions
- Seven sins – 5: The Possession Problem
- Similarities of Lawyers and Architects in starting a case
- HP Discover 2013 – The Intact Way
- From the Editor: Problems of Execution Versus Search
- Same as Magic
- New Introduction to ArchiMate Visual Modeling Available
- New Introduction to ArchiMate Visual Modeling Available
- Seven sins – 4: The Meaning Mistake
- Tim Westbrock to present Value of EA at AEA Ohio Chapter Meeting August 20
- Bifurcation
- DATA Act IT Infrastructure – Platform Consolidation, Virtualization & Collaborative …
- DATA Act IT Infrastructure – Platform Consolidation, Virtualization & Collaborative Governance as Change Enablers
- Seven sins – 3: The Newage Nuisance
- Certification Search
- Certification Search
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – continuing the baseline models
- The business innovation process
- Seven sins – 2: The Golden-Age Game
- Join Intact at FUSION 15
- Mind Map Summary of TOGAF’s Enterprise Continuum and Reference Models
- Mind Map Summary of TOGAF’s Enterprise Continuum and Reference Models
- A Mind Map with Tips on how to Succeed on the TOGAF Level 2 Certified Exam
- A Mind Map with Tips on how to Succeed on the TOGAF Level 2 Certified Exam
- Seven sins – 1: The Hype Hubris
- BOM Building
- Seven sins of dubious discipline
- Is impatience good or bad being an architect
- About Business Model innovation
- Web Site Maintenance
- Round the bend
- Should we talk about business model innovation or simply business innovation?
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – Two tracks
- Enterprise Modernization – The Next Big Thing!
- Enterprise Modernization – The Next Big Thing!
- The ethical architect
- IoT is the new normal
- Landmines on legs
- Photo
- Photo
- Microservices Architecture versus SOA
- The importance of open-mindness in architecture.
- IoT is the result of the Digital technology evolution
- Open Letter to TOG #1
- Auftragstaktik and fingerspitzengefühl
- Application Portfolio Management: Towards Value-Driven Architecting
- IoT security and regulation
- The Open Group Baltimore 2015 Highlights
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – Where are we going?
- From Last Week’s Open Group Conference: Always-On Services for Consumer Web, Mobile and the Internet of Things
- From Last Week’s Open Group Conference: Always-On Services for Consumer Web, Mobile and the Internet of Things
- From Last Week’s Open Group Conference: Effective Strategy Execution with Capability-Based Planning, Enterprise Architecture, and Portfolio Management
- Newly Updated: Using the TOGAF 9.1 Framework with the ArchiMate Modeling Language
- Abstraction: Achieving Alignment At 10,000 Feet
- Think A Data Lake Is THE Answer? Think Again. Here Comes Elastic Analytics
- Pervasives and the VSM algedonic link
- Abductive Reasoning
- What does IoT need to define first?
- Internationalization, Currency, etc.
- Internationalization, Currency, etc.
- Forrester’s Annual ECM Panel Survey, 2015. Call for Participation — Deadline July 31, 2015
- Forrester’s Annual ECM Panel Survey, 2015. Call for Participation — Deadline July 31, 2015
- What is our Enterprise Architecture mandate?
- What is, in fact, IoT about?
- Intro to EA: The Paradigm Problem
- European Interoperability Reference Architecture
- Information Security in the boardroom
- Basics on how an enterprise works
- Enterprise Modelling versus IT Enterprise Architecture
- Services and disservices – 6: Assessment and actions
- Archimate Modeling in Practice – Getting Started
- Navigating the Path to Value
- The Rebirth Of iManage: A New Company With A Familiar Name Re-Enters The ECM Market
- The Rebirth Of iManage: A New Company With A Familiar Name Re-Enters The ECM Market
- What would a Digital Office do for the enterprise?
- Let’s Break All The Data Rules!
- 2015 Excellence in EA Awards: Call for Nominations
- 2015 Excellence EA Awards: Call for Nominations
- On Stupidity – Patents
- Services and disservices – 5: Social example
- IT Project Insanity: Doing the Same Thing, Expecting Different Results
- Services and disservices – 5D: Social example (Implications for EA)
- Services and disservices – 5C: Social example (Media-examples 6-9)
- Services and disservices – 5B: Social example (Media-examples 1-5)
- Top 5 Data Architecture Challenges
- Services and disservices – 5A: Social example (Introduction)
- Why we are not working on a measurable outcome as architects
- 2nd Enterprise Design Retreat
- Figuring out the Why – Identify Strategic Change Opportunities
- EA 2015 Copenhagen
- A Tale of Two IT Departments, or How Governance is Essential in the Hybrid Cloud and Bimodal IT Era
- Is Zombie Data Taking Over?
- The New Needs of Digital Business
- The New Needs of Digital Business
- Learn to spot Unicorns
- Learn to spot Unicorns
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – Introduction Case Study
- On Stupidity – Outcome Driven Application Architecture
- EA Practice Advisor
- Customer Experience Architecture
- 2015 CRN Solutions Provider 500 (No. 471)
- Event based processing and capability architecture
- Event based processing and capability architecture
- On Stupidity – Governance
- BioIngine Platform :- Q-UEL / HDN / QEXL Driven Cognitive Computing for HealthCare
- Reference Architecture Models with ArchiMate
- Of Peanut Butter and Animated Pictures
- Of Peanut Butter and Animated Pictures
- Podcast: Securing Business Operations and Critical Infrastructure: Trusted Technology, Procurement Paradigms, Cyber Insurance
- The impact of Digital on the enterprise
- Services and disservices – 3: The echo-chamber
- The one business process that all architects need to know
- Happy Independence Day!
- The Digital enables new business models and the “Virtual Value Chain”
- Expectations, Estimates and other Malarkey
- Conflict vs Empathy Story
- You choose: Internet of Everything or isolated intranets of things?
- Services and disservices – 2: Education example
- Using the Capability Inventory for municipalities
- Using the Capability Inventory for municipalities
- Housing Technology Manifesto
- Z Ride for Hope
- Grab a Hold of your Enterprise Future and Architect your Business Change Strategy
- Information Security: 7 worst practices
- Pluto has become my favorite non-planet
- Pluto has become my favorite non-planet
- Capability architecture and microservices
- Capability architecture and microservices
- Too old
- Services and disservices – 1: Introduction
- Global Cooperation and Cybersecurity: A Q&A with Bruce McConnell
- Professionalism, waivers and the hard questions
- The company that nearly destroyed non-SQL DBMS
- Best Practices in low-tech Information Security measures
- Catching ideas in flight
- Video: Digital Strategy Summit Presentation
- 10 Time-Saving BiZZdesign Architect Shortcuts
- How to Sell the Value of Design Thinking
- Failure by design
- Failure by design
- On stupidity – CRM
- Simplifying SCORE, again
- Using Risk Management Standards: A Q&A with Ben Tomhave, Security Architect and Former Gartner Analyst
- Information Security: What really works to build awareness
- On Stupidity – HCM
- Consider Digital evolution in your enterprise strategy
- John Zachman and the curate’s egg
- What is wrong with this #ArchiMate picture?
- The Definitive Guide to BiZZdesign Architect’s New Auto-layout Feature
- More on simplifying SCORE
- Enterprise Architecture is Like a Good Beer
- Enterprise Architecture is Like a Good Beer
- How to Scale Up Excellence in an Organization
- It is not so much the digitalisation of the enterprise but its acceleration
- The Data-Driven Optimist
- Simplifying SCORE
- New EAPJ blog post: Reverse Cloud (with two ArchiMate pictures)
- New EAPJ Column: Reverse Cloud
- The Capability Inventory
- The Capability Inventory
- An Ode to Laziness
- Hidden risks in business-model design
- On stupidity – Common Data Architecture
- Scotch Eggs and Feedback
- Scotch Eggs and Feedback
- Do not Stop-Start your EA
- BiZZdesign’s June 2015 Product Updates [Feature Roundup]
- Who you gonna call? Trustbusters!
- On Stupidity – Transparency
- What does mapping affordable housing teach us?
- Business ‘Fit’ vs. Technical ‘Fit’: The Crucible of Strategy, Architecture & Governance
- EA Profession: What’s Changing and What’s Not
- When EA & SOA Worlds Collide Presentation
- E-Government Trends, Common Practices and Benefits
- EA Frameworks: Pros and Cons – Inventory and Insights
- Embrace Enterprise Transformation as a Core Concept
- Tactical (yet Strategic) EA – Keeping Both Sides Happy
- Getting Started with Enterprise Business Architecture
- Managing Your Vulnerabilities: A Q&A with Jack Daniel
- Should we Stop-Start our EA every two years or so? (iii)
- Stories Are The Secret To Influence
- Critical Success Factors for EA Effectiveness
- Communication Planning for Enterprise Architecture
- Enterprise Patterns – Free Template
- How to save time automating repetitive tasks in BiZZdesign Architect
- What’s the scope of a business-model?
- Design Patterns for Event-driven Distributed Intelligence
- Design Patterns for Event-driven Distributed Intelligence
- Digital Strategy – But Where Is The Disruption?
- Apple Pay on London Tube Promises to Accelerate Contactless Transit Payment Adoption
- Should we Stop-Start our EA every two years or so? (ii)
- On stupidity – Follow analysts and take things for granted
- Power over WiFi: An Internet of Things Enabler
- Should we stop-start our EA every two years or so?
- Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2015
- Bricks, Bytes, Behavior, and Branding: Four Pillars of the Digital Workplace
- The Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters
- Political parties and organizational intelligence 2
- Political parties and organizational intelligence 2
- Tweet Monkey Shows That Anything Thing Can Join the Internet of Things
- The biggest problem with “going to the cloud” and how to solve it.
- An acronym for (enterprise) effectiveness
- The Enterprise Architecture manager role
- Looking Back on Year 4
- Looking Back on Year 4
- A tagline for enterprise-effectiveness
- Business as Art
- Shifting IT Operating Models
- Shifting IT Operating Models
- On Stupidity – Storytelling
- On Stupidity – Roadmaps
- Effectiveness for enterprise-effectiveness
- Enterprise Architecture and Agile Development: Opposites Attract?
- Enterprise Architecture und Agile Development: Gegensätze ziehen sich an?
- The Open Group Healthcare Forum Publishes First Whitepaper and Announces New Member
- SCAN and cultureSCAN
- Enterprise effectiveness
- BYOD – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
- On Stupidity – Consultants
- Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns (2)
- Enabling Successful Business Change with Enterprise Architecture
- The owner of Enterprise Architecture
- Idea-parenting
- Information Security: 7 communication tips to involve your business
- Capitalizing on Complexity and Uncertainty
- On Stupidity – Change
- Two words
- Update on The Open Group France: A Conversation with Eric Boulay
- Application portfolio management for beginners with SMART
- The Inventory Model
- The Inventory Model
- EA Manufacturing versus Engineering
- Who put the “Enterprise” in Architecture?
- On stupidity – Certification of Architects
- The Death of the Mail Man
- Never Waste A Good Crisis
- The Model Driven Enterprise
- Never Waste A Good Crisis
- BankSpeak
- BankSpeak
- “Force Generation” Architecture: Sustain and support
- On Stupidity – Industrialisation
- How IT Operational Maturity is Critical to the Future of Business
- Designing from the end
- The Conceptual System Landscape
- Putting Your Best Foot Forward
- RBPEA: Attachment, non-attachment, non-detachment
- Information Security: a necessity of life
- The Strategy Model
- The Strategy Model
- On Stupidity – Promoting an Architect
- Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns
- RBPEA: The other Bolshevism
- “Force Generation” Architecture: Warm phase
- On Stupidity – Data Standards
- RBPEA: “Love, live, work, hope”
- High-res versions of the pictures in the book available
- Why We Like ArchiMate®
- RBPEA: The dangers of ‘anything-centrism’
- In Praise Of Heuristics – or Saving TOGAF® From Its Friends
- Enterprise Architecture is an Enterprise issue, NOT an IT model-building exercise
- Enterprise-architectures for the real world
- On Stupidity – Digitalisation
- The Modelling of the Enterprise (ii)
- From Security Architecture to a Secure Architecture
- On Stupidity – Abstraction
- What’s Your EA End Game? Tales From TWC 2015
- The Modelling of the Enterprise (i)
- Fundamentals of a Shared Services Model
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice: Using a model repository
- RBPEA: Where’s the plan?
- The Great Escape: “EA is not about IT!”
- Agile Enterprise Architecture – A Good to Great Evolution
- What Does TOGAF Certification Really Mean to You?
- The lie of reuse
- The Scenario Canvas
- Agile versus Architecture
- State of the EA Union, Part 1
- The Art of Scoping: 5 lessons to be learned
- Positive critical thinking
- QualiWare Conference Coming Up
- Sharing the Solution Domain Taxonomy
- The Open Group Madrid 2015 – Day Two Highlights
- Sharing the Solution Domain Taxonomy
- Agile and Wilful Blindness
- Agile and Wilful Blindness
- “Force Generation” Architecture: Transition phase
- Two appearances: Gartner EA Summit (UK) and MBT Conference (NL)
- Two appearances: Gartner EA Summit (UK) and MBT Conference (NL)
- The Open Group Madrid 2015 – Day One Highlights
- Emergent Architectures
- Tripling the Odds of Transformation Success: A Critical Role for Business Architecture
- Arguing with Drucker
- Arguing with Drucker
- Survey Shows Organizations Are Experiencing an Identity Crisis When it Comes to IT Risk Management
- RBPEA: Feelings are facts
- The tool trap
- Score! Using Performance Indicators in practice
- D4 – being in control of your deployed reality
- RBPEA: Object, subject and ‘should’
- Do we need an Enterprise Architecture Theory? We do.
- Join Intact at HP Discover 2015
- Does Enterprise Architecture really enable the enterprise transformation?
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice: 3 solution model example cases
- Microservices and the role of the digital business architect
- Risk, Security and the Internet of Things: Madrid 2015 Preview
- RBPEA: Basics and fundamentals
- The failure of actor lead system thinking
- The Infatuation with “Building Blocks”
- Essential Balances in Organisations
- 5 steps to optimally use your process models
- 101 Lessons From Enterprise Architecture
- Analytical versus Big Data Architecture
- Used-By Redux
- The Smart Watch is Much More than a Smaller Smartphone
- Bridging the EA & Solution Architect Gap – Case Study
- The #ArchiMate Wish List: Group
- Why Embrace a Process- and Content-Driven Approach to EA?
- Why Embrace a Process- and Content-Driven Approach to EA?
- The Digital Race, Enterprise Edition
- The Open Group Madrid Summit 2015 – An Interview with Steve Nunn
- “Force Generation” Architecture: Cold Phase
- And Australian sexism again…
- The banking industry challenge today
- Do you trust your doctor ?
- Why new technology requires non technical orientated architects, but not Business Architects.
- Architecture for fun
- What is the Enterprise Lifecycle?
- Zachman Enterprise Engineering – Primitive vs. Composite Review
- The Open Group Johannesburg 2015 – Conference Highlights
- Introducing the ZeroLAFF framework
- RBPEA: Constraints and corollaries
- Balance exploitation & exploration within your organization with TOGAF
- The Strategic Staircase – Case Study
- The QualiWare international conference 2015
- Is Database-as-a-Service in your IT Services Catalog?
- Is Database-as-a-Service in your IT Services Catalog?
- Architecture in a two speed IT department
- Setting up the system landscape
- Enterprise modelling in three dimensions
- ArchiMate doesn’t make communication to management easier
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice: 3 tips for your solution models
- The need for more data integration architects
- 5 Take Aways from the Enterprise Architecture Conference – 15-18 June 2015, London
- Enabling the Boundaryless Organization the Goal of The Open Group Madrid Summit 2015
- “Force Generation” Architecture: Core Objectives
- The Annual Digitalization Reunion
- The future of work, and money
- Future Ideas: harnessing worldwide innovative power
- Why digitalisation fails!
- How do we assess strategy?
- Business Architecture is Critical for Organizations that Predate the Digital Economy
- Enterprise Architecture and Systems Thinking – by Ian Glossop
- Smart use of Data: how to design a supply chain and use it properly!
- The Microservices Pattern
- The Microservices Pattern
- The hype to end all hypes 🙂
- About analysis of ArchiMate models
- Building Blocks in Enterprise Architecture
- Zachman Framework Rows. What are they?
- Managing Complexity with Enterprise Architecture
- Architects, It’s Your Time
- A tale of three toolsets
- “Force Generation” Architecture: a case study
- Do We Need A Bit More Anarchy in EA?
- Enterprise Architecture, Dynamic and Distinctive Capabilities – by Ian Glossop
- The Internet Is Not The Answer
- Join Intact at HP Government Summit 2015
- Two goodbyes
- Efficient Collaboration within Agile Methods
- An Interview with John Zachman
- Get a Free Copy of the Zachman Framework 3.0
- Drawing (even poorly) to See via The Book of Life
- How do you feel about using the same toothbrush as a stranger…
- How do you feel about using the same toothbrush as a stranger…
- Is the Digital Workspace New? Lessons from Building 20
- Cybersecurity Standards: The Open Group Explores Security and Ways to Assure Safer Supply Chains
- Elevator Speech for Enterprise Architecture
- Swedish EA Summit
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice Top-down: App and infra models
- Celebrating the First 40 Years of Enterprise Architecture
- The relation between Design Thinking and Enterprise Architecture
- The Technology Landscape
- Losing a Limpet – What happens when we don’t have Enterprise Architecture?
- The (not so obvious) path to a solution
- Implementing a Data Governance Capability
- Cloud Computing, ownership matters
- Cloud Computing, ownership matters
- Is the Value Chain concept still valid today? More than ever.
- The Open Group San Diego Panel Explores Synergy Among Major Frameworks in Enterprise Architecture
- All Data as a Service (DaaS/BDaaS) – Who’s Your D-a-a-S Enabler?
- All Data as a Service (DaaS/BDaaS) – Who’s Your D-a-a-S Enabler?
- Microservices Unplugged
- Microservices Unplugged
- What’s A Strategy?
- What’s A Strategy?
- Mastering ArchiMate
- Enterprise Portfolio Management – Getting Started
- Enterprise Design – Fad or Wicked Opportunity?
- A Wiggly Path To Transformation
- A Wiggly Path To Transformation
- Become a Certified Enterprise Architect
- The digital enterprise at all costs does not pay
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice. Top-down: Business architecture models
- Mobility and Cloud Computing and the need for a new security concept
- Mobility and Cloud Computing and the need for a new security concept
- Why the digital enterprise, is it inevitable?
- The Secret Behind Selecting The Right Enterprise Architecture Tool
- Using Big Data to Build a Strategy Toolbox
- Changing Business Value Models
- A World Without IT4IT: Why It’s Time to Run IT Like a Business
- How to develop and document business policies and decision logic?
- How would the digital enterprise look like from a business angle?
- Powering a Renewable Future with Architecture Thinking
- Framework for Success – Survey
- More on the ‘Why’ for new toolsets
- Hoist by their own petard (again)
- Enterprise Portfolio Management User Perspectives
- Let’s make Enterprise Architecture SOLID
- What Exactly are the Benefits of TOGAF?
- What’s the Difference Between Scope and Partition?
- Using the ArchiMate® Language to Model TOGAF® Architectures
- When Monopoly goes beyond a game…
- What’s Wrong with Best Practices?
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice Top down vs bottom up
- ArchiMate Modeling in Practice Overview
- Alternatives to the EPSC Model
- Alternatives to the EPSC Model
- A Business Model is not solely a sales paradigm
- New ‘On Slippery Ice’ column at EAPJ: “The (Forgotten) Other Half of SOA”
- Hidden perils of co-branding
- “Lean” Enterprise Architecture powered by TOGAF® 9.1
- TOGAF Principles Template – An Interactive Guide
- On modelling ‘self-service’ with Archimate
- Tackling Digital Disruption from the Top
- The ten commandments of a successful digital transformation
- 2015 Strategy and Industry Perspectives
- Enterprise Portfolio Management Deciding on Investments
- On business capabilities, functions and application features
- Informing the pursuit of digital era ambitions and challenges
- It’s My Data and I’ll Do What I Want With It….
- Modelling Self-Service in #ArchiMate
- “I, Robot” – there is no such thing as ‘Customer Self-Service’
- The Open Group San Diego 2015 – Day Two Highlights
- Yes, yes, but what do you do?
- TOGAF 9 Poster #44 – TOGAF and ArchiMate
- The Open Group San Diego 2015 – Day One Highlights
- Free TOGAF 9 Trial
- Lessons from an IT transformation failure (iv), accountability
- 3 Steps to define requirements for business rules and decisions
- From tools to toolset
- Designing and Managing a Multichannel Architecture
- A Historical Look at Enterprise Architecture with John Zachman – An Interview with The Open Group
- How brand-thinking can kill you, and capability thinking can save you
- The rise of Rapid Application Delivery through Model-Driven PaaS
- How brand-thinking can kill you, and capability thinking can save you
- How well do you know TOGAF definitions?
- Professional Training Trends (Part Two): A Q&A with Chris Armstrong, Armstrong Process Group
- Toolsets for associative modelling
- Want better answers? Ask better questions.
- Lessons from an IT transformation failure (iii)
- Federal Agencies Innovate with Enterprise Intelligence: Eliminating Threats and Inefficiencies
- Professional Training Trends (Part One): A Q&A with Chris Armstrong, Armstrong Process Group
- How Digitization Is Creating a Fork in the Road for Banks
- Business Transformation: Dealing with Change in a Lean and Agile Way
- How to make data your source of sustained growth
- What are Soft Controls ?
- John Zachman to Present at The Open Group Conference in San Diego
- The Pathologies of Silo-fighting
- Z202: Zachman Certified 4 Day Level 1 Workshop – Colorado Springs 09/2015
- Z202: Zachman Certified 4 Day Level 1 Workshop – Colorado Springs 09/2015
- Z202: Zachman Certified 4 Day Level 1 Workshop – London 03/15
- Z202: Zachman Certified 4 Day Level 1 Workshop – Colorado Springs 03/2015
- IRM UK January 2015 Newsletter
- Free excerpt of Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture available
- Tools and metatools
- Reviewing with music
- The Book is available
- Database Triggers in #ArchiMate — And a Wish
- Public Sector Digital Strategy Meets Public Safety – in Northern Virginia, Fairfax County
- Public Sector Digital Strategy Meets Public Safety – in Northern Virginia, Fairfax County
- A Historical Look at Enterprise Architecture with John Zachman
- Insourcing again
- Harry Potter Meets Die Hard Meets Troux (or When implementing an architecture tool, take it slow)
- Harry Potter Meets Die Hard Meets Troux (or When implementing an architecture tool, take it slow)
- TOGAF Poster #43 – The Sandwich Diagram
- Catching Up with The Open Group Internet of Things Work Group
- More on theory and metatheory in EA
- Challenges of an Enterprise Architect; the fear of change
- Lessons from an IT transformation failure (part ii)
- Theory and metatheory in enterprise-architecture
- Moving Towards a Theory of Enterprise Architecture
- Platform, toolset and tool
- Lessons from an IT transformation failure (i)
- Two Competing Decision Model standards or one Composite Model?
- Moving Towards a Theory of Enterprise Architecture
- Toolsets, pinball and un-dotting the joins
- The lessons from a digital transformation failure (i)
- Link: Why Nordstrom’s Digital Strategy Works (and Yours Probably Doesn’t) – HBR
- Declaring the assumptions
- Putting Information Technology at the Heart of the Business: The Open Group San Diego 2015
- And more on toolsets for EA
- The GODS generic business map
- Reimagining the Digital Workplace
- Business Transformation: Coordinating Enterprise Portfolio Management with Other Disciplines
- On (not) changing the world
- DOTS, the enterprise structure in POET-PEAF EA method, which is GODS
- How to Successfully Communicate Your IT Project
- More notes on toolsets for EA
- The Role of Meaning and the Meaning of Roles
- From Coincidensity to Consilience
- From Coincidensity to Consilience
- Je suis Charlie
- 3 things everybody ought to know about the benefits of decision management!
- Digital enterprise and change capability
- Pinball-wizard
- A Walk Down Memory Lane: The Troux Blog Hall of Fame
- The Capability Canvas
- Open FAIR Certification for People Program
- Enterprise Architecture for decision makers: seven tips
- New toolsets for enterprise-architecture
- Understanding Agile Adoption Failure
- Understanding Agile Adoption Failure
- Language and meta-language for EA
- The Brand Canvas
- Exploring a new world – Raspberry PI
- Exploring a new world – Raspberry PI
- Reframing the way I work