Architecture

What is the right reporting level for Enterprise Architecture?

Where should the Chief Enterprise Architect sit within the organization? The two most common places where you will find Enterprise Architecture is either reporting into the CIO or into one of the direct reports to the CIO – like the head of application development.  In the data from the Enterprise Architecture Survey with more than […]

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The Invisible Architect: Why Enterprise Architecture Struggles to Make an Impact

In the realm of business strategy, the concept of a sales funnel is well-known. To sell a product, you need to guide potential customers through stages of awareness, interest, desire, and ultimately, purchase. Enterprise Architecture (EA) faces a similar challenge. We’re not selling cars, but rather, a vision of a more efficient, resilient, and innovative

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Business Capabilities: Office decoration or action plan?

In the post from last week I shared some thoughts on business capabilities and why they are important. Let’s discuss about how to use them. Before talking about how to use them here is my definition of a business capability: Business capabilities are atomic elements that in different combinations can deliver all the business processes

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Why you need granular business capabilities despite having business processes

As this is a topic of much debate in theory and practice I would like to emphasize the rational why something like business capabilities is necessary for most enterprise architecture setting: Grouping In Enterprise Architecture a key decision to make is to group resources together. These resources could be Labeling We need labels that signal

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