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Behavioral Economics & Enterprise Architecture (2): Enterprise Architecture = Choice Architecture!

October 17, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Innovation, Lean Management, Security Architecture /by Tim Vehof

The promise of enterprise architecture is that it helps improve decision making. Typically, the role of the enterprise architect is to advise and enable other stakeholders to make better decisions. Therefore, Enterprise Architecture – more than anything else – is a social discipline, in that it demands social skills and interaction in order for practitioners to successfully engage with stakeholders and change their behavior. Read more

Planning and Roadmapping: Modeling in ArchiMate

October 9, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Innovation, Lean Management, Security Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst and Sven van Dijk

In our previous blog post on planning and roadmapping, we discussed the general idea of planning and roadmapping in the context of enterprise architecture and capability-based planning. We addressed different levels of roadmaps, ranging from short-term sprints of a few weeks to long-term, multi-year roadmaps. We also provided some first insights into the use of ArchiMate concepts for modeling roadmaps. In this installment, we want to go deeper into different ways of modeling the evolution of your architecture.

Planning and Roadmapping: Introduction

September 25, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Innovation, Lean Management, Security Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst and Sven van Dijk

A key driver for management in general and enterprise architecture in particular is to get a better grip on the future, on the evolution of your enterprise. A common technique to support this is roadmapping. A roadmap is a strategic plan that shows the main steps or milestones needed to achieve a desired outcome. It articulates the strategic direction of your enterprise and shows the path forward. It helps you identify what is needed and what the main dependencies and priorities are, and serves as a communication instrument to align the organization along a common course of action.

Organizing Architecture Governance With Workflow And Forms

September 12, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, Blog, BPMN, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Innovation, Lean Management, Security Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst

– Marc Lankhorst, Fabian Aulkemeier

In a previous blog post on the features of our collaboration platform, we have explained how you can support people in working together on architectures and other models via structured workflows. In that post, we looked ahead at future features to support this kind of collaboration. Time to update you on the latest developments!

The Consumerization of Enterprise Architecture: Everyone’s an Architect!

August 1, 2018/1 Comment/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Innovation, Lean Management, Security Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst

Enterprise architecture is often perceived as an abstract, conceptual, and somewhat esoteric discipline practiced by ‘high priests’ who provide guidance with their lofty ‘architecture principles.’ It’s true that architects are often concerned with overarching, cross-cutting concerns that are not always visible to the people ‘in the trenches,’ but this view of enterprise architecture is misguided at best and increasingly misses the mark.

Agile/DevOps Support in BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio & HoriZZon

July 26, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Resources /by Marc Lankhorst

-Fabian Aulkemeier & Marc Lankhorst
In our previous blog post, we outlined why Enterprise Architecture and Agile/DevOps are key in becoming an adaptive enterprise. We also described several use cases where EA can strengthen Agile and DevOps practices. Now, we want to focus on the ways in which you can connect these in practice, using architecture models and appropriate tool support.
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Continuous Architecture: Turning the Database Inside-Out to Improve Transformation Decision-Making

July 18, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Innovation, Lean Management /by Nick Reed

-Nick Reed and Bart Molenkamp

In today’s business landscape, effective transformation is critical for enterprises to stay competitive. By definition, transformation happens over time.

Enterprises (or some subsection thereof) have a current state which needs to change for the better. That change – however small or large – results in a different future state. With the widespread adoption of Agile working practices and DevOps-based continuous delivery, these changes can be very small and very frequent.

Enterprise Architecture and Agile/DevOps: Adaptive Enterprise Cornerstones

July 13, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, 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, Infrastructure Architecture Management, Innovation, Lean Management, Resources, Security Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst

Marc Lankhorst, Fabian Aulkemeier

Enterprise architecture, agile software development, and DevOps are sometimes seen as being at odds. We think they can fruitfully collaborate and interface, but how do you do that? How can you align the concepts and processes from these worlds and bridge the cultural gap?

Combine ArchiMate & TOGAF Standards to Support Digital Change

April 13, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Capability Based Planning, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software /by Bernd Ihnen

In the first blog of this series, I explained how important it is to raise your digital change capability to become an adaptive enterprise. I also highlighted the role of effective communication, as well as approaches to categorize and visualize enterprise architecture descriptions based on the TOGAF and ArchiMate standards. In this series, I also included guidance on which approach to select for modeling Architecture and Solution Building Blocks (both are types of logical or physical components). To round out this series, I will end by discussing the connection to Deployed Solutions.

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Using the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum to Classify Architectures Descriptions

March 7, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, Blog, BPMN, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture Management, Security Architecture /by Bernd Ihnen

Previously, I wrote about the need to digitize change capabilities and how enterprise architecture can support and provide value to your organization. I also discussed how to categorize architecture descriptions along different levels of abstraction. But there is one dimension I didn’t dive into: How generic or specific is the architecture description compared to your organization?

Over the past decade, reference architectures have been developed and many have been published. They are a very useful start describing an enterprise, and the architectures are more or less specific to our enterprise. I don’t want to lose myself in academic discussions about what should be classified as what, so I will focus on the big points of the idea behind. Read more

Language: The Basis of Successful Strategic Transformations

February 27, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools /by Bernd Ihnen

We are currently living in an interesting time. The digitization of all business capabilities has reached a new level and has had a huge impact on virtually every industry. Business models are being redefined and new companies have emerged to become global players. Today, companies must be more agile than ever before and the speed of change will only continue to increase.

Transparency: Key Foundation for Change

February 19, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, Application Portfolio Management, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Innovation, Lean Management, Project Portfolio 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.

How to Not Fail When Implementing Strategy

January 31, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, Blog, Business Architecture, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Infrastructure Architecture Management, Innovation, Resources, Security Architecture /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, BiZZdesign, 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.

Workflow Support in BiZZdesign’s Collaboration Platform

January 25, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, Blog, BPMN, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst

– By Marc Lankhorst and Fabian Aulkemeier
An enterprise architecture model, or any other model in your business design practice, contains input from numerous actors within your organization. Your architecture’s governance must continuously collect that input, validate its accuracy and retain a record of all interventions to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, architecture principles, technology standards and other constraints.

5 Key Practices in Implementing Digital Transformation

January 24, 2018/0 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 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.

How to build an Adaptive Enterprise?

November 15, 2017/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Capability, 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.

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

September 19, 2017/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, 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

Prepare your Organization for Change: 6 Key Capabilities

November 9, 2016/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Digital Transformation, Governance, Risk & Compliance /by Marc Lankhorst

Few companies have a systematic and reliable way of translating their business strategy into action across all relevant parts of the organization. Research on digital transformations by MIT Sloan [1] distinguishes between the ‘what’ (what does an organization want to achieve) and the ‘how’ Read more

In case you missed it: Combining ArchiMate® 3.0 with Other Standards & Techniques – Summary

November 3, 2016/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, Blog, BPMN, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software /by Marc Lankhorst

Since the release of ArchiMate 3.0 last June, my colleagues and I have written a series of blog posts about combining ArchiMate with other standards, methods and modeling techniques. This post summarizes what we have shown you.