Strategists, architects, process experts, software developers, data managers and other professionals involved in changing the enterprise often put substantial effort in creating all kinds of useful models of their designs. In many cases, such business models, enterprise architecture models, business process models, software models, data models and more are only used to specify some design, i.e., to describe what should be built. But there is much more value to be had from these models, by using powerful analysis techniques to create new insights. Read more
5 Key Practices in Implementing Digital Transformation
/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Innovation, Security Architecture /by Marc LankhorstDigital Transformation
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.
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Create your GDPR registers with BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio
/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Governance, Risk & Compliance /by Joost NiehofEnterprises 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.
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Why Business Outcome Journey Maps are a useful technique for business architects
/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Capability Based Planning, Enterprise Architecture /by Marc LankhorstBusiness 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.
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How to build an Adaptive Enterprise?
/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Capability, Innovation /by Marc LankhorstIn 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.
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Why adding a value stream element to ArchiMate® is key?
/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Enterprise Architecture, Resources /by Marc Lankhorst, Henk Jonkers and Adina AldeaIn 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.
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Powerful Analysis Techniques (7) – Risk, Security & Compliance Analyses
/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Security Architecture /by Marc LankhorstPowerful Analysis Techniques
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 Protec
tion 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
/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, SaaS /by Peter MatthijssenHow to bring your EA practice to the next level with our new portal
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
/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Architecture Management /by Marc LankhorstIn 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 analysis, and in particular on cost models.
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Powerful Analysis Techniques (5) – Business and Technical Value Analysis
/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Project Portfolio Management /by Marc LankhorstIn 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?
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The Business Architect’s Toolbox: Information Mapping
/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Innovation /by Marc LankhorstInformation Mapping – 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.
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Powerful Analysis Techniques (4) – Lifecycle Analysis
/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Enterprise Architecture /by Marc LankhorstNext 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
/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Governance, Risk & Compliance /by Marc LankhorstAs 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.
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Powerful Analysis Techniques (3) – Process Analysis
/0 Comments/in BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, BPMN, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Lean Management /by Marc LankhorstIn 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
/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture Management, Innovation /by Marc LankhorstDependency Analysis – 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.
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The Business Architect’s Toolbox: An Introduction
/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Capability Based Planning, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Architecture Management /by Marc LankhorstIn 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
7 Powerful Analysis Techniques to Get More Business Value from Your Models
/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Project Portfolio Management, Security Architecture /by Marc LankhorstStrategists, architects, process experts, software developers, data managers and other professionals involved in changing the enterprise often put substantial effort in creating all kinds of useful models of their designs. In many cases, such business models, enterprise architecture models, business process models, software models, data models and more are only used to specify some design, i.e., to describe what should be built. But there is much more value to be had from these models, by using powerful analysis techniques to create new insights. Read more
How organizations model their acquisition and divestiture – a real life example
/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Infrastructure Architecture Management, Lean Management /by Marc LankhorstIn my previous blog I wrote about the importance of models to successfully complete a merger, acquisition or divestiture. Of course, one organization’s divestiture may be another one’s acquisition. In this blog post I’ll share one my personal experiences as a consultant, supporting two government agencies that were in the middle of this process.
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How enterprise models contribute to successfully completing a merger, acquisition or divestiture
/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Project Portfolio Management /by Marc LankhorstOrganizations involved in major strategic changes such as mergers, acquisitions and divestitures often focus mostly on the financial and market aspects of the change. What is the impact on your market share? How can you increase buying power from your suppliers? What cost savings can be realized by exploiting synergies? Read more
Just launched: BiZZdesign Portal
/0 Comments/in BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog /by Peter MatthijssenWe are happy to announce an all new BiZZdesign Portal. This Portal offers an integrated solution with BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, and is really something special. It uses the latest technologies, is easy to use and offers users a great looking interface.
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Are You Ready for the GDPR? The Test Results
/0 Comments/in BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Security Architecture /by Marc LankhorstIn two previous blogs, I discussed the impact of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation and 8 things architects can do to help their organization comply with this far-reaching regulation. We also made available our ’How ready are you for the GDPR?’ test, which determines whether your organization is doing enough to prepare for the important regulation. Read more