Martin Owen, CEO, Corso
I recently spoke with an editor about the state of enterprise architecture today. One of the topics that came up was the increasing overlap between the disciplines of portfolio management and enterprise architecture. What is the difference between the two? Will these roles merge in the future?
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Pragmatic roadmapping in Enterprise Architecture
Martin Owen, CEO, Corso It's no secret that organizations are in an almost continual state of change. Thankfully, the new implementation and migration extension within ArchiMate® 2.0 is designed to provide concepts that model the transition of enterprise architecture over time.This is indeed a great step forward. However, from a pragmatic point of view, it's not quite enough. We see many enterprise architecture initiatives struggle in three main areas when roadmapping due to the lack of support from methods and tooling in this area:
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6 reasons why you should be using ArchiMate®
Jamie Knowles, CTO, Corso
Describing the assets of the enterprise in a clear and structured way can be a difficult task. And communicating stakeholder needs when making changes to that architecture can seem impossible. Often, enterprise architects will use a variety of custom or homegrown solutions, but there is a better way - the standard language from the Open Group known as ArchiMate.®
ArchiMate is a structured language with a notation that describes all aspects of the enterprise in terms of business, IT, and applications in a rigorous way. It allows you to keep information in a form that can be easily managed and used to answer a range of questions. Let's look at the benefits in more detail...
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Flying without Forms
Many years ago in the early 90s, I was doing some early enterprise architecture work around application portfolio management at Airtours.
Airtours was a UK based travel operator that was undergoing major change and about to be acquired. The company had grown substantially due to the advent of the internet and the ability for customers to book travel themselves online.
The main issue they had was understanding their IT estate, which had grown in an ad-hoc manner over time. The key questions were:
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Hi, I’m Martin Owen, CEO of
Corso. Welcome to our new blog.
Business and IT are changing rapidly and we hope to make this an open forum for discussing the challenges and opportunities of strategic planning.
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