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Okay, I think I’m finally getting somewhere, on looking for a way to connect a business-model to enterprise-architecture, to provide a full link between top-down intent and bottom-up real-world constraints.
This specific part goes from the business-model downwards, from Business Model Canvas to Archimate, and thence to BPMN, UML and other detail-layer models. (There’s another part […]
Back on business-models again, this time with more of an emphasis on the implications for enterprise-architecture, rather than solely for business-architecture.
The initial challenge posed by my colleague was to describe my own business model, by which he meant “how do I make money?”. But there’s a bit more to it than that, which is what […]
How do I make money, in my business? What’s my own business-model?
That was part of a follow-on to my previous post on ‘What do we mean by ‘business-architecture’?‘, in a great phone-conversation with a colleague last night, who challenged me to describe my own business-model and business-architecture.
To him, he said, a business-model is a kind of […]
A consideration that is now growing in many markets is how outsourcing and off-shoring has been affected by the emergence of Cloud Computing as a kind of alternative option to hosting services. Continue reading →
There is no question that businesses need Business Architects. There is no question that business architecture in an important set of activities. The question is, really, where do we get them? I’ve seen no lack of interest in this field….
As my readers may know, I published a metamodel for business architecture about 18 months ago in the Microsoft Architecture Journal. Calling it the Enterprise Business Motivation Model, I based my model on a combination of a number of standard an…
You approved the budget. You greenlit the initiatives. The organization is in motion. And somewhere between that boardroom decision and the front lines, your intent got lost. Finance sees approved investments. Leadership sees dashboards. Teams see projects. No one sees how those views connect to the outcomes the work was funded to produce.
“You can think of an enterprise as a physical algorithm for creating value.”
The question of how well you understand your own enterprise has always mattered. But it has never mattered more than now. As organizations race to embed AI acro…
By Vasily Yamaletdinov, Enterprise Architect, Raiffeisen Bank Over recent decades, the concept of a “business process” has been the cornerstone of any organization’s operating model, defining an ordered sequence of interconnected acti…
The hardest part of portfolio management isn’t generating ideas — it’s choosing which ones truly deserve investment, and in what order. As demand grows and capacity remains constrained, portfolio leaders face constant pressure to make confident, defensible trade-offs. Yet in many organizations, prioritization still relies heavily on influence, urgency, or fragmented data rather than a…
By Eric Barroca Enterprises are falling in love with their models. A frontier LLM benchmarks well. Developers tune prompts around its response patterns. Business users grow comfortable with its outputs. Confidence builds. Workflows move into […]
Abstract:
In this presentation, Alan unpacks the risks, benefits, and costs associated with each of four IT operating models. He shares how leading organizations’ IT functions support business units whose performance is heavily IT and AI dependent. Th…