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I receive infographics via email from respected analyst firms like Gartner that claim to provide a roadmap to success as an Enterprise Architect in the first 100 days at a new organization.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 11/5/2017 12:00:00 AM
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Single source of truth in the company.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 11/3/2017 1:22:58 PM
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Many people who try to model and capture an organization's business and IT are stuck on how detailed they should go about creating a data model of the organization. This blog reveals what you should do.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 10/23/2017 9:42:57 AM
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Decades ago, people started visualizing the business processes in manufacturing. They called this value stream mapping.
What they did was visualize how the flow of information went through the company and next how the flow of materials went through the company. Recently business architects have discovered that value streams also work for them.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 4/13/2017 9:13:32 AM
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How to Design Architecture Principles—The word principle originally meant explaining how you know or believe something works (action-reaction, cause-effect). Today, too many enterprise architects don't know how to design architecture principles effectively. Their approaches define principles wrongly as general rules or guidelines. Here's how to do it right.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 4/9/2017 1:07:52 AM
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Architecture Principles are a total disaster. Let's face it. They are often produced but rarely used.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 4/6/2017 8:52:59 AM
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If we look at successful American enterprises, we encounter a Winner mentality. Many people, not everyone, would like to adopt that winner mentality in their own company. This blog is a first search for the top 10 architecture principles.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 4/4/2017 10:12:41 PM
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If you think Enterprise Architecture Principles are very important, so important that you develop or document them, you'd better use them. Otherwise, it has been a complete waste of time. Here's a framework for your enterprise architecture principles and patterns to get them right and used.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 4/1/2017 10:49:03 PM
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With the essential elements of building architecture and landscape architecture: Point, Line, Plane, and Volume, everything you see in the photograph was designed. But when we talk about Enterprise Architecture, these four elements do commonly play the same role. Is this because of a lack of education or can't you use them to create enterprise architecture? Let's find out.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 3/22/2017 2:35:42 PM
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Managers don't have much time, and they have better things to do than create a business process model, application landscape, or IT infrastructure blueprint. Dragon1 provides templates so you can be ready in seconds!
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 3/11/2017 12:17:58 PM
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You are 7 clicks away from your first process model or business model on Dragon1. Learn Dragon1 Quickly with this Step-by-Step guide. Just follow the 30 steps grouped into four modules. You will learn to sketch, model, share, communicate, publish, comment, generate, and report. And lots and lots more on Dragon1.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 2/18/2017 8:50:42 PM
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As long as you produce great-looking visualizations, like layered blueprints, that show understandable business solutions they need for their strategy, it is okay. BUT....the moment you introduce the word Enterprise Architecture or Architecture Principle, it all goes wrong.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 1/31/2017 3:00:51 PM
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Do you need to create a blueprint quickly, within 4 weeks, to manage your digital transformation? In that case, Dragon1 is the digital platform you can rely on to get the job done. By using a visualization template, Excel sheet, and example, you will have guaranteed satisfying results after one month.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 1/30/2017 6:38:00 PM
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On the Dragon1 digital platform, we have made it very easy to generate drill-down application landscapes. You can publish the landscape views to make them viewable on any device, anywhere. Read the blog, create an evaluation account, and see for yourself how wonderful this works.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 12/20/2016 11:23:20 AM
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Archimate is a meta-model that is used by some architects to model architecture. The Open Group names all of its products Open Group Standards, but also standards in short, and so Archimate is also called a standard by the Open Group, making many people think it is complete and can be used for everything, unedited. The problem with Archimate is that it misses many core entity classes, preventing it from doing things other than high-level business process-application landscaping, like business architecting. The reason for this and how we have extended the meta-model of Archimate to make it more useful is explained in this blog.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 12/17/2016 12:28:15 PM
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Business Capability Studies are done very frequently in organizations. Only their impact is often not as big as it could be or should be. Dragon1, as an open Enterprise Architecture method, promotes an approach to significantly increase the effectiveness of the results and outcomes of a capability study. One of the unique aspects of this is that Dragon1 differs between Capability, Ability, and Disability. This provides you with three new views of the business architecture. This enables you to analyze and decide more specifically on what to change in order to increase business capabilities.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 12/16/2015 11:02:26 AM
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Why are services considered products? A coffee machine is a product. It will not make a cup of coffee for you. You can ask your colleague (or hire someone) to do it for you. Your colleague provides the service for making you a cup of coffee. In this way, services make everyone’s life easier.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 12/16/2015 8:33:59 AM
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Fundamental strategic transformation can only occur if one starts at a conceptual level. Preferably with Enterprise Architecture.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 12/15/2015 8:09:00 AM
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Enterprise modeling is not wrong. However, you and your manager can not expect to contribute seriously to fundamental organizational changes.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 12/11/2015 1:39:29 PM
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Dragon1 provides the necessary extensions with new concepts for business modeling.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 7/2/2015 10:38:21 AM
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Managing your software applications with indicators turning them from red to green.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 6/29/2015 2:47:49 PM
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You will see a generated overview of the current status of your application landscape at a glance. Red-colored applications are outdated, orange-colored applications are too expensive, and yellow-colored applications don’t have an owner.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Why not use a checklist for projects? It forces you to deliver project deliverables of the required quality within budget and time. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Salespeople work with CRM software (mainly SaaS). Enterprise architects work with PowerPoint. Who is more productive?
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Making the right decisions every day in a dynamic enterprise is not the easiest thing for a CIO. Creating a common overview of the organization's current state makes it less complex for him/her and the architect team.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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An architect's knowledge does not stop with a certification in TOGAF and/or ArchiMate. The next step is to learn how to visualize enterprise architecture at a conceptual level.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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How do you find a solution that actually solves your problem? You pick up the right concepts and visualize them with the company's objectives and strategy.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Your project needs the structure and discipline of the team members even before it starts. Otherwise, it will waste your time and money.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Anyone responsible for executing the objectives of annual plans regarding the business strategy has an advantage in visualizing their department's impact.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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The types of views depend on your client or stakeholder who needs to decide on your visualization. Here's a list of the various possible views.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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It is good to manage projects themselves. For example, visualize your project on a map and use it as a management report view.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Best practice for Application Rationalization guides in controlling your application landscape.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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The added value of Enterprise Architecture: it all begins with visualizing concepts.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Developing a vision as part of your strategic management, how to begin?
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 4/10/2015 1:52:38 PM
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Be inspiring. Share your vision on issues you care about with your colleagues and supervisor.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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The benefits of creating an Enterprise Architecture Framework are explained.
Posted by Mark Paauwe on 11/20/2013 12:00:00 AM
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Best practice for Application Rationalization.