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2nd Edition

October 8, 2015 by Roger Evernden

My first book about enterprise architecture was published in 2003. It was called: Information First – Integrating Knowledge and Information Architecture for Business Advantage. Around 2013, being the tenth anniversary of publication, I planned to do a re-write and produce a second edition. I didn’t think it would take too long! Well here we are…

Zachman Version 3.0 John Zachman recently announced a new version of his framework….
What’s wrong with IFW? I created Information FrameWork (IFW) as an architecture framework –…
Language and Controlled Vocabularies Enterprise Architecture is an abstract discipline – because it deals in…

ArchiMateModeling in Practice – Reference models

October 7, 2015 by Bas van Gils & Sven van Dijk

Fleshing out the co-existence pattern was hard work for the team: Brenda had to coach them through the project, staying away from the technical details such as deployment until the concept is clearly understood and the actual go-ahead from …

How to re-organise the enterprise around services (ii)

October 7, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

To minimise risks, costs, effort, failures plan for an opportunistic transition that should introduce services when existing platforms or technology turn obsolete, need costly upgrades or the transition produces minimum disruption to operation.

The myth of the providential man

October 5, 2015 by Michel Goës

Enterprises are sometimes confronted with stagnating situations or projects. These situations may arise because the enterprise might not be able to address them with its own means (organization, infrastructure, methodology, people) and it then requires an external contribution to make things evolve. For example, the enterprise can hire one or more external persons who it hopes will […]

Enterprise architect as business-anarchist

October 5, 2015 by Tom Graves

I seem to have acquired the half-joking job-title of ‘business-anarchist’. Huh? Anarchist? You mean like those crazy bomb-throwing guys from the past? Uh, no… – not quite… Quite a long way from ‘”not quite”, actually. You did notice that word ‘business’,…

How to re-organise the enterprise around services (i)

October 5, 2015 by Adrian Grigoriu

Autonomy should work both ways, for both the enterprise and the unit. And interfaces are key for autonomy,

Enterprise Stockholm syndrome

October 5, 2015 by Cay Hasselmann

Properly most of us have heard about the Stockholm syndrome in hostage cases were the the victim develops positive feelings against their captor or tormentor, often even to the point that they will stop the police from capturing their tormentor. The point known to only a few is that the syndrome actually happens most often … Continue reading Enterprise Stockholm syndrome →

Open Letter to TOG #4

October 11, 2015October 4, 2015 by Gerben Wierda

Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few … Continue reading →

An Enchantment Tale

October 2, 2015 by Stuart Boardman

It was my birthday but that’s only relevant, because it’s one reason I was in a very relaxed mood and perhaps therefore more open to noticing than usual. That and the radically improved weather. In Amsterdam we have a lot of canals. Everyone knows that from the picture postcards but probably not that, outside of […]

Mac OS X El Capitan Achieves UNIX® Certification

October 2, 2015 by Open Group

By The Open Group The Open Group, an international vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, has announced that Apple, Inc. has achieved UNIX® certification for its latest operating system – Mac OS X version 10.11 known as “El Capitan.” El Capitan was … Continue reading →

Base rate fallacy

October 2, 2015 by Cay Hasselmann

Most architects that I have met have a great belief in numbers as they claim that there is something stable on numbers and on logic. The really funny thing however is that most people that heavily rely on numbers are also subject to the base rate fallacy. The classical example of this is DNA testing … Continue reading Base rate fallacy →

Renaming This Blog

October 2, 2015 by Leo de Sousa

I started my blog “Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education” in May 2007 to share the EA work my colleagues and I have done. My goal was to share the practical approaches that we implemented to move our organizations forward. I hope that you have seen value and found ways to use some of our ideas to move your […]

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