Groupings in ArchiMate 3.0 By popular demand, the option to use relationships to or from groupings has been added to ArchiMate, which greatly enhances the practical value of this element. Grouping is no longer classified as a special kind of …
Imagine your personal information falling into the wrong hands, or your company's confidential data being exposed to hackers - a terrifying thought! But fear not, for cybersecurity compliance is here to save the day. It's like having a shield of …
Relating Business Strategy and Capabilities The relationship between business strategy and capabilities is a two-way street. On the one hand, the strategy of an enterprise is a way of configuring its capabilities and resources to achieve certain goals. …
This new reality presents a wickedly complex challenge for business leaders to understand and respond more quickly to this mix of threats and opportunities while simultaneously transforming their organizations to achieve business goals. Organizations must …
The Role of Abstraction in Enterprise Architecture Organizations today are facing a rapidly increasing pace of change. They adopt agile methods that impact the entire enterprise to drive faster transformation. Naturally, change must be communicated, but …
Business Model Analysis The Business Model Canvas is useful for describing how a business captures, creates, and delivers value. In this blog, we will elaborate on Business Models , introducing the subject of Business Model Analysis. Analyzing your …
What are reference architectures? Reference architectures are standardized architectures that provide a frame of reference for a particular domain, sector or field of interest. Reference models or architectures provide a common vocabulary, reusable …
Application Components in Enterprise Architecture Modeling Structural relationships model the static construction or composition of concepts of the same or different types. The application components viewpoint can be set up to show the hierarchy of …
The Capability-Based Planning Cycle Capability-Based Planning activities are structured in a cycle: Map, assess, plan, and control. It shows us where to begin and the next steps to gradually increase the impact on the organization. In the “Map” phase, we …
Serving Perhaps the most contentious one is the ‘serving’ relationship (or ‘used by’ as it was called before ArchiMate version 3.0 ). This points from the element that provides some functionality to the element that consumes it. For example, in the figure …
