The difference between business architect and business analyst

[Author’s note: within an hour of posting the following article, Kevin Brennen of the IIBA dry-roasted the post on his own blog.  You can find a link to his entry here: Business Architecture is Business Analysis.  I have made an attempt…

The Future of Money

Alternative Forms of Currency Alternative forms of currency have existed for a long time. Frequent flyer miles are transformable forms of value, they can be exchanged for goods and services….

Exposing the value of BPM

Inefficient processes can make or break your organizations ability to succeed. Each year organizations dish out hundreds, even millions, of dollars leveraging the wrong resources to try and improve ineffective business processes. Companies that are unable to adapt to new industry regulations, changing business models and competitor innovation are facing the reality of failure. The […]

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5 Real Innovation Opportunities in 2012

Co-authored with Devin Henkel For years we’ve heard the challenge “innovate or die.” Companies are taking that idea to the extreme in 2012 – we are currently working with several companies that are re-thinking their approaches to innovation. To survive, they are “innovating innovation.” Some companies are letting outsiders in on their innovation processes. That old paradigm of company researchers toiling away in back rooms on secret innovations for months is going up in smoke […]

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Must-See Live Webinars for February

February might be the shortest month of the year, but that’s not holding us back. Our calendar this month is jam-packed with informative webinars on a variety of topics around business process management (BPM) and enterprise architecture (EA). Check out the list below to see what we have to offer and be sure to register! […]

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Knowledge-base wiki for whole-enterprise architecture

A kind of announcement, really: a knowledge-base wiki for whole-enterprise architecture is now available and ready for content and use. I’ve given it a temporary home on my Sidewise server: http://ea.sidewise.biz No doubt it should have a proper domain of its own, but that’ll do for now to get us started. [By the way, this […]

On Semantic Technologies

A conversation with Eddy Vanderlinden Semantic technologies have been some temptation for me for quite a long time. That was mainly due to my growing frustration about the utilisation of data resources both inside corporations and outside, on the Internet. Then all mainstream modelling methods used for analysis or for database design and application development, […]

Standing up for the value of our work

How do we prove the value of our work? How we defend that value against unprincipled attack? These are real questions that we all need to face, especially in inherently-’unprovable’ disciplines such as enterprise-architecture. So let’s put these questions into practice. Several people have asked me for a detailed worked-example of the sensemaking-technique of context-space mapping […]