Bizzdesign’s Approach to Capability Governance Tailored to Customers’ Needs (Part 2 of 2)

Bizzdesign’s Approach to Capability Governance Tailored to Customers’ NeedsBizzdesign’s approach to Capability Governance is similar to BIZBOK’s but more pragmatic. Most importantly, it takes into account that many business architecture initiatives start from the IT organization as well as from a lower level of maturity. We often see that the core of a capability mapping team comes from some architecture department or team…

Capability Governance: The ‘Who’ Dimension of Capability-based Planning (Part I of 2)

Capability Governance: The ‘Who’ Dimension of Capability-based PlanningOur blog series on Capability-based Planning focused on the why, what, and how of this subject matter. We’ve discussed the meaning and value of the concept ‘capability’, its use in decision-making and planning, the design of Capability Maps, and how to model capabilities and other business architecture concepts in coherence, among other subjects. This blog…

The Power of Using EA to Optimize BPM

Business processes are at work in our everyday lives when we order products from the Internet, buy goods from a store, or check into a hotel. The list goes on. There are many definitions of Business Process Management (BPM) on the Internet, and this discipline essentially focuses on delivering the organization’s products and services to…

Directing Strategic Change With Capability-Based Planning

A topic attracting increasing attention from architects and executives alike is: How to use Capabilities to inform strategic planning. The previous blog articles in our series on Business Capability Design and Management focused on “How to assess Business Capabilities” and “How to Measure Business Capability Aspects”. These articles describe the overall four-stage Capability-based planning process…

Architecture for Everyone: How Enterprise Architects Can Scale Data Management Across the Organization

When you ask any Enterprise Architect what their number one goal is, they often respond that it’s to optimize the architecture to support organizational change. Our enterprise architecture platform is geared toward doing this: Bizzdesign Horizzon helps organizations thrive through change. In line with our mission, we’ve recently added a Data Contribution feature to our…

What makes Solution Architects tick (and how they can be successful)

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been on a mission to interview almost a thousand Solution Architects. Bizzdesign has experienced a growth in Solutions Architects using our platform, and I wanted to discover how we could connect Solutions Architecture to Enterprise Architecture to design better solutions. A day in the life: Solutions Architect During…

Data-centric project requirements?

Several times this week, in different circumstances, I was asked a question having these three words close together. That’s not new. It happened previously. But this concentration triggered the write-up that follows. Nothing original and neither is the reason to write it: Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no […]