“BiZZdesign allowed us to reduce the time to model a global application landscape with 50%, increasing the knowledge within the company and supporting fast decision-making.”
As a Head of Enterprise Architecture (EA), you provide crucial support to the technology and business decision makers in your organization. Based on a thorough understanding of the organization’s current business architecture and IT landscapes, you provide senior and C-level management the necessary insights into their various options and alternatives. You need to deliver optimal guidance and direction to lead your organization through business improvements and transformations necessary to execute its strategy. You are also constantly advocating for simplicity to keep the ever-growing complexity of your enterprise in check.
A key challenge to enterprise architecture is delivering business value at speed and providing short-term business outcomes while also executing on a longer-term strategy. Communicating clearly with management about options and alternatives in a complex environment is not easy. To control this complexity, you need to have all the relevant facts at your fingertips, but these are often spread out across many different sources and systems. So, the question becomes: How do you ensure your architecture practice is well-aligned with stakeholders’ needs and the organization’s strategy?
BiZZdesign’s platform provide enterprise architects with a single, model-based source of truth on your enterprise architecture and all relevant related domains, including:
• Business process management
• Application architecture
• Data management
• Strategy models
• Project, program, and IT portfolios
• Business enterprise architecture
Our user-friendly HoriZZon portal offers clear dashboards for decision makers. Our standards-based implementation also makes it easy to link up with other systems to create an integrated view of your enterprise.
Behavioral Economics & Enterprise Architecture (2): Enterprise Architecture = Choice Architecture!
/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 VehofThe 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 […]
Planning and Roadmapping: Modeling in ArchiMate
/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 DijkIn 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 […]
Planning and Roadmapping: Introduction
/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 DijkA 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 […]
Organizing Architecture Governance With Workflow And Forms
/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 […]
Data Analysis with Dashboards in HoriZZon
/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Architecture Management /by Marc Lankhorst and Rob KroeseIn my recent blog post on stakeholder communication, I described various basic forms of communication about architecture, with diagrams, tables, heatmaps and the like. What I did not touch upon in that post is how you can enrich your architecture (and other) models with additional data and display the results in various dashboards. That is […]