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MOSA is Here to Stay: A Recap of the 2021 FACE™ and SOSA™ Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) Event

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I continue to be amazed by the promotion and advancement of The Open Group FACE™ and SOSA™ Technical Standards and Business Approach within the U.S. armed services. Nowhere was this more evident than at the recent FACE and SOSA Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) 2021, which was hosted by the U.S. Army, sponsored by TES-SAVi, and supported by over 45 exhibitors. This event proved decisively that the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) is here to stay.   

Enterprise Architecture Supporting the Agile Organization in a World of Continuous Change

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Organizations need to be resilient and agile to adapt to a market that is changing at a faster pace. Due to the increase in digital technologies available at consumers’ fingertips, organizations need to innovate and get the capabilities needed to support these new digital offerings that customers are demanding in an effective way.

Relating Capabilities to ‘Strategy’ and ‘Business Model’

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In our ongoing blog series on Capabilities and Capability-based Planning, we’ve mainly concentrated on the capability concept itself. We’ve discussed why capabilities are useful as a concept, how to define them, and how to structure Capability Maps. We’ve also looked at how you can use Capability Maps to support business challenges such as investment decision-making,…

How Senior Management Can Use Business Capability Maps To Make Better Investment Decisions

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Today we live in a rapidly changing world. Senior management is faced with various change initiatives to improve the different functions of an enterprise. All of these change initiatives are backed by well-informed arguments and compete for budgets. Although strategic management has access to a vast amount of information and tools to support strategic, tactical,…