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Rather, digital transformation means transforming the organization from having less agility to having more agility. In other words, being able to deal better with change overall. Fundamentally, digital transformation requires that organizations adopt change itself as a core competency. Makes sense, except that the devil is in the details. What does it mean for change…
“Many stakeholders consider their organization as unique.” Depending on the level of abstraction you take as viewpoint, you can argue this statement is either right or wrong. It is interesting from an enterprise architecture perspective to understand why stakeholders stress this uniqueness and what are the benefits of understanding where the organization really is different…
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“Don’t it always seem to go / that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” – so sang Joni Mitchell in ‘Big Yellow Taxi’, way back in 1970. Seems appropriate about enterprise-architecture too… A quick recap about what’s …
Those who denigrate architecture as ‘only theory’ are seriously missing the point, because the role of architecture is theory – theory to guide the practice of design. Without theory to guide practice, all that we’d have is design that’s built on untested …
The world has been getting a lot more complex, most…
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Yikes! Just realised that it’s only three months from now that I’ll be seventy years old! Time to think about plans for retirement… yay! Though those plans are going to have to be kinda constrained, because, to put it bluntly, …
I wanted to share some common issues I see when managing requirements in large projects. 1. The blur between the Architect and Project Manager Architects build architecture solutions, and if you read standards like ISO42010 its quite clear that designs have to meet the needs of the stakeholders and clearly stake how they do it. […]
Partner perspective The BiZZdesign partner network extends the range and depth of industry expertise available to our customers. In this blog post, our UK partner, Edifit, explains how they have applied their experience as architecture practitioners to extend the document production capabilities of Enterprise Studio. Automating document generation from your architecture model Eddie Walker Good…
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The 2020 BiZZdesign Connect Conference has concluded and we’re happy to say it was a tremendous success! Our theme and proposition for you this year was Designing Better Enterprises, and apparently the rest of the world found it really relevant. So man…
Last week I was asked for a standard definition of what administrative users are in our company. I wanted to talk a bit about user rights because admin or not admin as a way of thinking is dangerous. I wanted to share my thoughts on it, and an approach for defining user rights in architecture. […]
Probably everyone knows the RACI responsibility-matrix – Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed. But what does it mean, in practice? For some years now I’ve been using a simple organisation-relative way to describe the organisation’s relationships with the broader shared-enterprise: organisation: the organisation itself, …
Internal regulations governance has become more and more critical both because of exogenous pressures (e.g. an ever-changing legislative environment, increased scrutiny from regulatory institutions) as well as endogenous ones (e.g. frequent organizational changes and corporate acquisitions). A company’s own regulatory framework consists of various sorts of documents. Some have merely an informative purpose, others regulate…
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