Ton Baas

How to Develop and Document Business Policies and Decision Logic?

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Changing regulations, business strategies and compliancy standards require new business policies to be developed constantly. Consequently, new decisions will be made which need to be managed properly. However managing these new decisions is (of course) not without challenge. The field of decision management has steadily become more popular – first focusing on it being a better way to manage business rules, but lately shifting its focus to predictive analytics.

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Jens Goossens

3 Things Everybody Ought to Know About the Benefits of Decision Management

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Be honest, do you consider yourself a great decision maker? I believe, with a few exceptions, that many people are not able to make optimal decisions. Why you might ask? Well, the answer is quite simple: people don’t have the time to collect and analyze all the available data and information from information systems in your organization, suppliers, customers and other external sources.

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David van Eck

Business Process Modeling: Top-down or bottom-up processing?

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During Business Process Management trainings, people often ask me about the best modeling technique: How to model a process model? Where do I begin? Top-down or bottom-up process? Questions that many of you have asked yourselves when beginning to design a process model. In this blog I would like to take you along with me to the world of top-down or bottom-up modeling. Let me start by clarifying some frequently used terms. Then, I will share several personal experiences and my preferred method of working.

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Marc Lankhorst

Rapidly Delivering Business Value with TOGAF

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The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is the most popular framework for developing an enterprise architecture (EA). It is an open standard and may be used freely by any organization wishing to develop an enterprise architecture for use within that organization. BiZZdesign believes in an EA approach that is based on open standards and frameworks. We combine and pre-package frameworks and standards like TOGAF and ArchiMate as an accelerated approach to jump-start customers’ EA programs. In this blog we will explain how we use TOGAF as framework, apply it in practice, with the goal of doing business-outcome-driven EA.

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David van Eck

How to be Successful with the Process Design Team: Five Tips

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Over the past years many organizations have been working with an Agile method for software development, providing the design team and development team with a particularly important role. Within several projects in which I was involved I had the chance to experience this from up close. In this blog I would like to share five top tips to help a design team efficiently and effectively perform within an Agile environment. Read more

Henk Jonkers

Enterprise Architecture-Based Risk Assessment with ArchiMate

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Until quite recently, IT security was exclusively the domain of security specialists. However, in the last couple of years, organizations have started to realize that IT-related risks cannot be seen in isolation, and should be considered as an integral part of Enterprise Risk and Security Management (ERSM). ERSM includes methods and techniques used by organizations to manage all types of risks related to the achievements of their objectives.

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Marc Lankhorst

Towards Value-Driven Architecting

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In my previous blog post on Enterprise Architecture at BiZZdesign in 2014, I described how the true value of architecture lies in its relationship with other disciplines within the enterprise.

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Henry Franken

Strategic Use of Business Models: Implementation

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In my previous blog posts, I discussed the way I see strategy work and the types of models that can be used, and how the business model canvas should be the focal point for architecture work. In this blog post, I will show that enterprise architecture is the tool to go from strategy and business model to execution.

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Suleiman Shehu

Business Performance Management, Balanced Scorecards and The Decision Model

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The Decision Model (TDM) is a rapidly growing framework for modeling and executing the business logic behind business decisions. When I first read the book “The Decision Model – A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology” by Larry Goldberg and Barbara von Halle, I was impressed with how TDM models the business logic behind operational business decisions.  Read more

Suleiman Shehu

Three Decision Model Predictions and The Decision Modeler

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The Decision Model (TDM) is a new and rapidly growing methodology and framework for modeling the business logic (business rules) behind business decisions, using a powerful graphical notation, that is easy for both business and IT to understand and implement.

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