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Transparency: Key Foundation for Change

February 19, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, Application Portfolio Management, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Innovation, Lean Management /by Marc Lankhorst

In modern enterprises, change is no longer a simple, top-down affair. All levels of the organization need to be involved, and everyone from shop-floor employees to the CEO need to work on local improvements to business processes. Lean projects and agile product development teams must rapidly innovate digital environments, strategists need to invent and experiment with new business models, project and program portfolio managers have to decide on investment allocations, and those responsible for domains like risk management and regulatory compliance have to do their part. This “all hands on deck” approach requires enterprise-wide transparency and visibility of plans, structures, opportunities and constraints.

7 Key Strategy Views in Enterprise Studio (part 2)

February 15, 2018/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Enterprise Portfolio Management /by Marc Lankhorst

In my previous blog post, I described how Enterprise Studio supports the Business Model Canvas, Ecosystem maps, Balanced Scorecards including SWOT, PESTEL and Five Forces analysis, and heatmaps to highlight salient information for your organization. Now, I want to focus on more advanced views and analyses that help you evaluate the viability of your strategy and business models and then take steps towards their implementation.

7 Key Strategy Views in Enterprise Studio (part 1)

February 8, 2018/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Innovation /by Marc Lankhorst

A survey conducted by The Open Group in cooperation with BiZZdesign and other partners found that the largest difficulty in strategy process (for over half of the 500+ respondents) is bridging the gap between strategy development and implementation.

How to Not Fail When Implementing Strategy

January 31, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, ArchiMate, Blog, Business Architecture, Digital Transformation, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Infrastructure Architecture Management, Innovation /by Marc Lankhorst

Defining a good strategy is difficult, especially in this rapidly moving digital world. But realizing your strategy is even more complicated. After all, how do you ensure a strategy is implemented in a coordinated, coherent way? How do you manage all of the moving parts?

Change the way you change

January 30, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, Blog /by Peter Matthijssen

2018 will be either an exciting or a terrifying year for many organizations. Which one will depend entirely on each organization’s ability to change. “Adapt or Die” is the mantra we must hold true today, and because the rate and magnitude of market disruptions are greater than ever before, we need to change the way we change.

5 Key Practices in Implementing Digital Transformation

January 24, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Decision Model Management, Digital Transformation, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Innovation /by Marc Lankhorst

The effective use of digital technologies is paramount in a competitive environment. To succeed, you don’t need a separate digital strategy; you need a business strategy for the digital age. But digital transformation is difficult to manage because it requires you to change many moving parts of your enterprise, much like redesigning and rebuilding an airplane while in flight.

Create your GDPR registers with BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio

December 19, 2017/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Governance, Risk & Compliance /by Joost Niehof

Enterprises need to create and maintain registers of why, where and how they are processing personal data from EU citizens. Creating and maintaining these registers in BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio helps to ensure you create consistent and coherent registers that conform to your baseline enterprise design. In this blog I would like to show you how you can use Enterprise Studio to support this specific GDPR use case: the creation and maintenance of the registers of all personal data.

Why Business Outcome Journey Maps are a useful technique for business architects

December 5, 2017/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Capability Based Planning /by Marc Lankhorst

Business Outcome Journey Maps are a new technique that help you focus on the key aspects of value creation in your enterprise. Here we show you what they are, why they are useful and how they are supported in BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio.

How to build an Adaptive Enterprise?

November 15, 2017/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Innovation /by Marc Lankhorst

In today’s turbulent business environment, organizations need to be excellent at designing and implementing change. The ‘Digital Enterprise’ requires continuous innovation, which means that organizations are in a constant state of flux. At the same time, they need to stay in control. They have to deal with regulatory pressure, financial constraints, and the risk of disturbing their going concern while implementing major change.

Why adding a value stream element to ArchiMate® is key?

October 25, 2017/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst, Henk Jonkers and Adina Aldea

In recent years, the concept of ‘value stream’ has become increasingly popular. It is a useful element in the toolbox of business architects, and is advocated in, for example, the Open Group Guide to Value Streams and the BIZBOK® from the Business Architecture Guild®. Though ArchiMate® has had a value mapping element since its inception, until now it does not have a value stream element. In this blog we propose to add a value stream element to ArchiMate in a way that supports approaches such as those described in the Value Stream Guide and the BIZBOK, is coherent with the language structure, and minimizes the impact on the rest of the language.

Powerful Analysis Techniques (7) – Risk, Security & Compliance Analyses

October 19, 2017/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Governance, Risk & Compliance /by Marc Lankhorst

In the final installment of this blog series, I want to address the domain of risk, security and compliance, an area of increasing importance for architects, process designers and others. As an example, in some previous blogs, I have already outlined the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its impact. In one of my posts, I used a simple example of data classification and how you can use this to assess your application landscape. Read more

HoriZZon: How to bring your EA practice to the next level with our new portal

September 19, 2017/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, SaaS /by Peter Matthijssen

I am very excited to announce the new version of Enterprise Studio and an all new Web Portal. This release includes many new capabilities making our software suite more powerful than ever. Next to our excellent modeling, repository and analysis capabilities (top in the market according to Gartner*), our software suite now includes a state-of-the-art Portal. The visualization, analysis and collaboration capabilities enable a much wider range of stakeholders to gain insights across the enterprise, covering a broad range of transformation stakeholders. We proudly name our Portal HoriZZon. Read more

Powerful Analysis Techniques (6) – Financial Analysis

September 7, 2017/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, ArchiMate, Blog, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Architecture Management /by Marc Lankhorst

In my previous post, I discussed how you can analyze the business and technical value of your applications, and how architecture models are key in calculating metrics such as the business criticality or strategic value of applications. In this post, I want to focus on financial analyses, and in particular on cost models.

Powerful Analysis Techniques (5) – Business and Technical Value Analysis

August 29, 2017/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance /by Marc Lankhorst

In the previous installment in this blog series, we looked into planning and analyzing change in the enterprise by linking the life cycles of elements such as applications and projects. But how do you decide what to do with, for example, your application landscape? Which applications need to be improved, re-platformed, functionally upgraded, or phased out?

The Business Architect’s Toolbox: Information Mapping

August 22, 2017/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Innovation /by Marc Lankhorst

Business Blueprints are an essential instrument in every business architect’s toolbox. The Guide to the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge (BIZBOK Guide®) defines four core business architecture domains: Value Streams, Capabilities, Organization and Information.

Powerful Analysis Techniques (4) – Lifecycle Analysis

August 16, 2017/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Enterprise Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst

Next to this analysis of the enterprise as it is today, addressed in the previous blog posts, we can also plan, design and analyze change in and of the enterprise. To this end, you can give anything in your architecture model a lifecycle. The specific stages in those lifecycles can be defined depending on the types of objects you model. Read more

The Business Architect’s Toolbox: Organization Mapping

August 10, 2017/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance /by Marc Lankhorst

As discussed in the introduction of this blog series, the maturation of the business architecture discipline makes the role of model-based support for design, analysis and decision-making increasingly important. Therefore, we introduced you to several useful techniques for business architecture modeling and how they are supported by BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio. In this blog, we will discuss an approach to modeling a blueprint of one of the core domains of business architecture: Organization Mapping.

Powerful Analysis Techniques (3) – Process Analysis

August 7, 2017/0 Comments/in BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Lean Management /by Marc Lankhorst

In my two previous blog posts, I described dependency analysis and impact analysis. These two kinds of analysis focus on what you might call the steady state of your enterprise, or the enterprise at rest. But there is also the enterprise in motion, where we look at the behavior of the enterprise, in particular its business processes.

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Powerful Analysis Techniques (2) – Dependency Analysis

July 31, 2017/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture Management, Innovation /by Marc Lankhorst

In my previous blog post, I outlined the value of using analysis techniques to get more business value out of your models. I described one of the most common analysis techniques, impact analysis, and showed how color views and heat maps can be used to depict, for example, the use of applications to support capabilities.

The Business Architect’s Toolbox: An Introduction

July 25, 2017/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Capability Based Planning, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Architecture Management /by Marc Lankhorst

In recent years, we see the audience and attention for business architecture steadily increase. A business architecture provides a business-oriented abstraction of the enterprise in its ecosystem, which helps the organization in decision-making and direction-setting. This maturation of the business architecture discipline makes the role of model-based support for design, analysis and decision-making also increasingly important. In this series of posts we will introduce you to useful techniques for business architecture modeling and how they are supported by BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio. Read more