“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” – Gustav Mahler

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” – Gustav Mahler

Three fundamental questions to understand Enterprise Architecture

“A good EA uses a holistic approach to translate strategy into a well-defined execution path, using appropriate analysis, planning, design, and implementation methods. The purpose of EA is to enable the Enterprise to most effectively achieve the mission, business strategy, and goals through cycles of planning, design, deployment, and delivery of change.” This is the […]

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Business Architecture:The Foundation for Business Process Management and Business Analysis

In TOGAF® standard, the phase B, of Architecture Development Method (ADM), is about development of a Business Architecture.This is a very important phase because this architecture is often necessary as a means of demonstrating the business value of architecture work to key stakeholders, and the return on investment. Roger Burlton, President of Process Renewal Group […]

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Process Simulation in Process Improvement

I think that Process Improvement goals can be shortly said these: increased efficiency, improved end-user experience, cost reduction, stronger adherence to best practices and regulations. To achieve these results, a process modelling tool with power simulation module, with feature to define real business scenarios, process runtime parameters visualization and, what if scenario view, is a […]

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Business Architecture

Business Architecture, one of main four large domains that TOGAF® propose for Entrerprise Architecture, is a representation of holistic, multi-dimensional business views of: capabilities, end-to-end value delivery, information, and organizational structure; and the relationships among these business views and strategies, products, policies, initiatives, and stakeholders. Enterprise architecture puts very strong emphasis on business architecture, since […]

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Business Scenarios

Business Scenarios were developed as part of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®), in order to quantify and document business processes.Business Scenarios are an important technique that may be used at various stages of developing the enterprise architecture, principally the Architecture Vision and the Business Architecture. They are used to help identify and understand business […]

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FROM STRATEGY TO EXECUTION AND BEYOND – PART 4

A four-part blog series: “From Strategy to Execution and beyond” by Harriet Hansen, offered by QualiWare in its site’s blog section, shortly presents relevant knowledge, timely actions and real results for an enterprise architecture program.In Part-1 and Part-2 it’s spoken about how to define a value proposition, how to obtain executive support and about the […]

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