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What are your thoughts on how to align BA and IT architecture?

We recently posted a white paper which promotes a common understanding of business architecture. The white paper is called "Defining Requirements for a Business Architecture Standard" and can be downloaded by using this link - http://brainstorm.leveragesoftware.com/group_file.aspx?FileID=884ae5b82f...read more
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JD - I hope no one implied that BPMN should be a business architecture model. As you said, it is too detailed. The metamodel is overloaded on purpose because there are certain aspects of detail...read more
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How do we store the information? Would a metamodel support a way to connect and align?

We recently posted a white paper which promotes a common understanding of business architecture. The white paper is called "Defining Requirements for a Business Architecture Standard" and can be downloaded by using this link - http://brainstorm.leveragesoftware.com/group_file.aspx?FileID=884ae5b82f...read more
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What are the ways to visualize the domains of the business that fall inside BA?

We recently posted a white paper which promotes a common understanding of business architecture. The white paper is called "Defining Requirements for a Business Architecture Standard" and can be downloaded by using this link - http://brainstorm.leveragesoftware.com/group_file.aspx?FileID=884ae5b82f...read more
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What are the domains of the business that fall inside BA?

We recently posted a white paper which promotes a common understanding of business architecture. The white paper is called "Defining Requirements for a Business Architecture Standard" and can be downloaded by using this link - http://brainstorm.leveragesoftware.com/group_file.aspx?FileID=884ae5b82f...read more
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Any RESTafarians out there?

Hi, I'm new to the list and I'm looking to connect with folks who are exploring REST for its potential as a distributed system architecture. Our company has a patent pending Resource Oriented Framework that supports truly dynamic processes (run-time composition based on context) with activity-based...read more
Authored by: Dave Duggal |  Originally published on March 13 2010 | 0 total posts

What's Up With Business Architecture Vendors?

The Jan. 2010 bulletin has an upcoming article that I wrote titled "What's up with the business architecture tool vendors?" In this article, I have outlined the current state of BA tooling and what steps vendors should take this year in order to provide more useful tooling to the business...read more
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posted 3 years 14 weeks ago
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There are, however, best practices that vendors can draw from. Most tools have too many artifacts for the business architect, due to their enterprise architecture roots. However, using the work done...read more
Authored by: William Ulrich |  Originally published on January 6 2010 | 2 total posts

Capability Model

Use of the Capability Model in Business Architectureread more
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posted 3 years 26 weeks ago
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I am starting this thread as a follow up to Greg Suddreth's presentation on Capbability model at Brainstorm New York. I really enjoyed this presentation and would like to learn more about it. I...read more
Authored by: Bonnie Yau |  Originally published on November 12 2009 | 4 total posts

Do you have a business architecture team or center of excellence?

Many orgnizations now have business architecture teams or centers of excellence. How are you organized? Do you have a single team or multiple teams? If you have multiple teams, how do they collaborate? Is your team under the IT organization or under business (non-IT) ownership? Let us know...read more
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posted 2 years 36 weeks ago
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My division has business architects embedded in the business units. We colaborate with technical architects on an ongoing basis and it has simple become how we do business.read more
Authored by: William Ulrich |  Originally published on October 29 2009 | 1 total posts

Defining Business Architecture

The following definition of business architecture is posted to the Business Architecture Institute.org (BAI) homepage, OMG Business Architecture Working Group homepage (http://bawg.omg.org) and even on Wikipedia (but don't hold that against it). "A blueprint of the enterprise that provides a...read more
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posted 2 years 46 weeks ago
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Colin The business architecture does represent the entire ecosystem. I built a business architecture for a 5-company ecosystem where the companies were partners, suppliers and even competitors to...read more
Authored by: William Ulrich |  Originally published on October 29 2009 | 56 total posts

Challenges to adopting business architecture

What are the challenges facing adoption of a business architecture approach? How do you overcome resistance and how do you demonstrate the value to business leaders?read more
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posted 3 years 28 weeks ago
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Business Architecture is a new discipline without a track record and a strong voice (think Michael Porter or Grady Booch). Consequently, its reputation will be built on the successes of projects...read more
Authored by: Tom Dwyer |  Originally published on October 29 2009 | 1 total posts

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