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Tag Archives: Enterprise architecture
High-level IT Blueprint
What does a project on a high-level operating model need to say about IT? And what does it need to deliver to the IT architecture team? This is the focus of this blog. The detailed work on IT architecture and … Continue reading →
Capability Maps vs Process Maps: Horses for courses
Those who have been following this blog will know that I have devoted four or five entries to the issue of capability maps. Mainly because I have not seen the need for them and because they can obscure the core … Continue reading →
Posted in Capabilities, Value chain
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Tagged activities, business architecture, capabilities, capability maps, DDay, DODAF, Enterprise architecture, MODAF, processes
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Value chain, capability chain or operating chain?
Over the last year I have been going round in circles in my thinking about language. I am convinced that the best place to start when doing operating model work is with a stakeholder map that helps identify the stakeholders … Continue reading →
What is “architecture” in business design?
The IT community use the terms Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture to describe the activity of “setting up” the business or the IT systems. As a business strategist I have always found this language difficult. I first came across it … Continue reading →
Working on an operating model
In a recent LinkedIn discussion, Don Hutcheson raised the question of the role of organisation charts in Enterprise Architecture (which for me is just operating model work!) There were some interesting responses, which stimulated me to add this post (edited … Continue reading →
More on Business Models and Business Architecture
I thought it would be helpful to add some of the further comment from the LinkedIn thread on diagrams for operating models. This is for those interested in the issue of language. See the first blog on this. In the … Continue reading →
Operating model diagrams
Not many people write simply about a subject like operating models. So I am reproducing here a blog by Jonathan Hammond of Knadel. Jonathan does a great job of demistifying the task of generating a good diagram of your operating … Continue reading →
Posted in Design tools
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Tagged activities, BPMN, business model, capability maps, Data management, Enterprise architecture, Operating Models, Organisation Models, target operating model, TOGAF, TOM, Zachman
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Do small companies have operating models?
The following is stolen from a post by Peter Murchland in a discussion group in LinkeIn’s The Enterprise Architecture Network. Thank you Peter and apologies for the changes I have made to your insightful comments. In a new organisation, the … Continue reading →
Enterprise architecture, frameworks and operating models?
There has been a long discussion on LinkedIn about Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF – more than 400 comments! What follows is stolen mainly from a comment by John Tieso – thank you John. For those who do not normally use … Continue reading →
