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On human ‘applications’ in EA models

Posted on 5 November 2012 by Tom G — No Comments ↓

In enterprise-architecture, how should we model a human-based ‘application’ such as a customer-service line or reCaptcha or Amazon‘s ‘Mechanical Turk‘? [Note: on a first glance, this all looks really simple. As soon as we delve anywhere beneath the surface, though, it’s…

Tagged with: archimate, Business, business architecture, business-IT divide, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, mechanical turk, metamodel, model
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture

On Archimate 2.0

Posted on 29 February 2012 by admin — 4 Comments ↓

Archimate 2.0 is now available – its formal release was at the end of January 2012, during the Open Group conference in San Francisco. I’ve been a bit busy in the meantime, so this is the first chance I’ve had…

Tagged with: archimate, Business, business architecture, business-IT divide, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, togaf
Posted in Business, Enterprise architecture

More on that enterprise-architecture 'help needed'

Posted on 15 August 2011 by Tom G — 7 Comments ↓

Given the responses to my previous post ‘Guess I could do with some help here…‘, seems it’d be useful if I clarify a bit more what kind of help I most need. (Or we need, rather, as an industry and…

Tagged with: archimate, Business, business architecture, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, Knowledge, metamodel, metaphor, methodology, narrative, narrative knowledge, paradigm, taxonomy, toolset, user-experience, user-interface, values
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge

Two kinds of Why

Posted on 5 August 2011 by Tom G — 14 Comments ↓

What is ‘Why?’ And why, anyway? “Oh no, not again“, do I hear you cry? Actually, it’s not as bad as that: it’s not going to be yet another of those long tedious technical posts – honest! (It is a…

Tagged with: archimate, Business, complexity, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, metamodel, mythquake, narrative, paradigm, story, taxonomy, values, worldview
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures, Knowledge

Unravelling the anatomy of Archimate

Posted on 4 August 2011 by Tom G — 20 Comments ↓

The Archimate notation aims to be the standard to be used by everyone in enterprise-architecture and related fields. But what exactly is its anatomy – its underlying structure? And if it’s aimed at enterprise-architecture, what is it about that structure…

Tagged with: archimate, Business, business architecture, business-IT divide, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, IT-architecture, IT-centrism, marc lankhorst, metamodel, taxonomy
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture

Assets and Resources

Posted on 1 August 2011 by Tom G — No Comments ↓

More on translating Business Model Canvas to Archimate etc. (Yes, it’s another of those long, interminable technical posts – my apologies, though they are necessary…) This one picks up on a couple of sort-of-mistakes that I’ve made in the previous…

Tagged with: archimate, Business, business architecture, business model canvas, enterprise, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture

Questions on business-model to enterprise-architecture

Posted on 31 July 2011 by Tom G — 2 Comments ↓

Following up on one of the previous posts on Business Model Canvas and Archimate, British/Dutch enterprise-architect Stuart Boardman sent in a comment with a stream of questions that it seems would be worthwhile to reply to in detail here. You…

Tagged with: archimate, Business, business architecture, business model canvas, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, peter bakker, stuart boardman
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture

Why business-model to enterprise-architecture?

Posted on 27 July 2011 by Tom G — 3 Comments ↓

Yes, I admit it: I’ve been kinda pouring out the posts lately. Sorry… But why all this fuss about business-models and enterprise-architecture? What’s the point about the bottom-line not being the baseline to work from? If everyone’s selling something to…

Tagged with: archimate, Business, business architecture, business model, business model canvas, business-IT divide, effectiveness, enterprise, Enterprise architecture, enterprise canvas, Futures, metamodel, narrative, operations, strategy, tactics, togaf
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture, Futures

Business Model Canvas to Archimate (the short version)

Posted on 26 July 2011 by Tom G — 8 Comments ↓

The previous post, ‘From business model to enterprise-architecture‘, turned out to be another of my monster essays. Sorry… The detail’s there if you need it, but if you just want to do the translation from Business Model Canvas to Archimate,…

Tagged with: archimate, Business, business architecture, business model canvas, enterprise, Enterprise architecture
Posted in Business, Complexity / Structure, Enterprise architecture

From business-model to enterprise-architecture

Posted on 26 July 2011 by Tom G — 7 Comments ↓

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…