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Added 3 days ago Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Models http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/e-gov/fea/ FEA Reference Models include the Consolidated Reference Model Version 2.3 and Data Reference Model 2.0. FY10 FEA Reference Model Mapping Quick Guide. - Enterprise Architecture - Government EA - Reference Models -

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Australian Government Architecture Reference Models (version 2.0) http://www.finance.gov.au/e-government/strategy-and-governance/aga-rm/AGA-RM.html In developing the AGA we have adapted an established and proven framework based on the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) developed by the United States Government. This framework is being used in a number of other countries and some state governments in Australia. The framework and these reference models have been endorsed by the Australian Government’s Chief Information Officers’ Committee. - Enterprise Architecture - Reference Models -

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Complexity, chaos and enterprise-architecture http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/02/19/complexity-chaos-and-ea/ Tom Graves: Courtesy of a link by fellow enterprise-architect Sally Bean, I've just spent the past couple of hours viewing and then reviewing an online seminar on complexity by one of the thought-leaders on complexity-theory and practice, Dave Snowden. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Challenges for the Decade, Part 4: Enterprise Architecture - Anatomy of Agile Enterprise http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2010/01/challenges-for-the-decade-part-4-enterprise-architecture.php Janne J. Korhonen: In this series of blog posts, I have addressed some of the challenges that the emergence of extended enterprise paradigm entails in terms of strategy, governance, leadership, and, in this last article, enterprise architecture. - Enterprise Architecture -

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TOGAF 9 Quickstart http://www.objectarchitects.biz/TOGAF9/TOGAF9Quickstart.html As a community service objectarchitects offers a free short book on what an entprise architect can expect from TOGAF 9. Wolfang Keller. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Gary Doucet, John Gøtze, Pallab Saha, Scott Bernard (2009) Coherency Management: Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance http://slashdemocracy.org/book/1438996063 The book introduces the idea of Coherency Management, and asserts that this is the primary outcome goal of an enterprise's architecture. With submissions from over 30 authors and co-authors, the book reinforces the idea that EA is being practiced in an ever-increasing variety of circumstances - from the tactical to the strategic, from the technical to the political, and with governance that ranges from sell to tell. The characteristics, usages, value statements, frameworks, rules, tools and countless other attributes of EA seem to be anything but orderly, definable, classifiable, and understandable as might be hoped given heritage of EA and the famous framework and seminal article on the subject by John Zachman over two decades ago. Notably, EA is viewed as an Enterprise Design and Management approach, adopted to build better enterprises, rather than a IT Design and Management approach limited to build better systems. - Management - Enterprise Architecture - Strategy -

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Peter Weill, Jeanne Ross (2009) IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain http://slashdemocracy.org/book/1422181014 Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flatlining, even as technology spending has skyrocketed. These challenges call for new levels of IT savvy: the ability of all managers-IT or non-IT-to transform their company's technology assets into operational efficiencies that boost margins. Companies with IT-savvy managers are 20 percent more profitable than their competitors. In IT Savvy, Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross-two of the world's foremost authorities on using IT in business-explain how non-IT executives can acquire this savvy. Concise and practical, the book describes the practices, competencies, and leadership skills non-IT managers need to succeed in the digital economy. You'll discover how to: -Define your firm's operating model-how IT can help you do business -Revamp your IT funding model to support your operating model -Build a digitized platform of business processes, IT systems, and data to execute on the model -Determine IT decision rights -Extract more business value from your IT assets Packed with examples and based on research into eighteen hundred organizations in more than sixty countries, IT Savvy is required reading for non-IT managers seeking to push their company's performance to new heights. - Strategy - IT Governance - Enterprise Architecture -

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A Value Proposition for Enterprise Architecture http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/value Boris Lublinsky: In his new post - A Value Proposition for Enterprise Architecture - Richard Veryard discusses the role of enterprise architecture (EA). - Enterprise Architecture -

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Is your company an enterprise? The answer matters http://blogs.gartner.com/mark_mcdonald/2009/06/15/is-your-company-an-enterprise-the-answer-matters/ Mark McDonald, Gartner Group: People talk about the ‘enterprise’ all the time, particularly in IT. There are enterprise solutions, enterprise architecture, enterprise portals, enterprise security, etc. In this context the term enterprise is more often meant to mean all encompassing, across business units or geographies, the whole of our business operations. Just because we say something is enterprise level that does not mean that it applies to the entire company. When that happens you have to ask yourself the question - are we an enterprise? - Enterprise Architecture -

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Griffith University Master of Enterprise Architecture http://www.griffith.edu.au/engineering-information-technology/enterprise-architecture To help bridge the gap between engineering, IT and management, Griffith University has created a new Masters program. The Master of Enterprise Architecture unites MBA and Masters of IT courses into a single degree. Enterprise Architecture at Griffith provides a comprehensive, modern postgraduate education in the principles and practice of Enterprise Architecture, a discipline unifying management and engineering knowledge. An Enterprise Architect has good understanding of strategy making and how strategies can be successfully implemented through a coordinated practice that harmonises business needs with the development of technology and the development of the organisation. Graduates will gain skills in analysis, problem solving, business modelling and systems architecture – both from information technology and business perspectives, as well as skills in change management, leadership and communication. - Enterprise Architecture -

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JISC Enterprise Architectures Group Pilot http://www.jisc.ac.uk/enterprisearchitectures JISC has funded four projects to investigate an enterprise architecture approach to service oriented development at institutional level through the application and evaluation of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). This initiative is funded as part of the e-Learning Capital Programme building on the e-Framework aspects of the programme. It is recognised that enterprise architecture has a wider applicability than e-Learning and therefore this initiative aims to address institutional architecture rather than just that of e-Learning. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Why There is Scope for More Research in Enterprise Architecture http://www.cioforum.co.za/publiccioforum/topic_012.htm Roderick Lim Banda: Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an evolving discipline. There is a need for ongoing research to ensure that we keep up with global trends. More importantly we need to gain a better understanding of our own local context in order to develop the architecture of the South African and African enterprise. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Why Companies Do Need Enterprise Architecture at Downturn? http://www.ariscommunity.com/users/koiv/2009-06-14-why-companies-do-need-enterprise-architecture-downturn Konstantin Ivanov, ARIS BPM Blog: Take it or leave it, but often EA is referred as a lengthy initiative with very unclear and practically not very applicable results. Like a set of references architectures, which in practice turn to be 80% different from architectures of actually deployed solutions or a set of principles of building new data centers, which are too high-level and theoretical, so any solution built do comply with them. - Enterprise Architecture -

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The Open Group ArchiMate 1.0 Technical Standard http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/doc/ts_archimate/ Architecture descriptions are formal descriptions of an information system, organized in a way that supports reasoning about the structural and behavioral properties of the system and its evolution. They define the components or building blocks that make up the overall information system, and provide a plan from which products can be procured, and subsystems developed, that will work together to implement the overall system. It thus enables you to manage your overall IT investment in a way that meets the needs of your business. To provide a uniform representation for such architecture descriptions, the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modeling language has been developed. It offers an integrated architectural approach that describes and visualizes the different architecture domains and their underlying relations and dependencies. In a short time, ArchiMate has become the open standard for architecture modeling in the Netherlands, it is also fairly well known in the international enterprise architecture community, and recently it has been brought under the aegis of The Open Group. - Enterprise Architecture -

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The Open Group Introduces ArchiMate 1.0 Standard Language for Modeling Enterprise Architectures http://www.opengroup.org/press/21apr09.htm Press Announcement April 21, 2009: New Standard Paves the Way for First Truly Global Enterprise Architecture Description Language. The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced that it has adopted ArchiMate version 1 as a standard global language for modeling enterprise architectures, including the industry standard architecture framework, TOGAF. Administered by The Open Group's ArchiMate Forum, ArchiMate 1.0 is a new language designed to provide enterprise architects a common vocabulary for describing, analyzing and visualizing enterprise architectures. By creating a single, common language, the ArchiMate Forum intends to help simplify the processes used within the enterprise architecture community for more effective work outcomes, as well as improve architecture tools offered by vendors. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Pallab Saha (2008) Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture http://slashdemocracy.org/book/160566068X Over the past two decades, the government sector has emerged as the area of largest implementation of enterprise architecture - a critical success factor for all types, scales, and intensities of e-government programs. Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture is a seminal publication in the emerging and evolving discipline of enterprise architecture (EA). Presenting current developments, issues, and trends in EA, this critical resource provides IT managers, government CIOs, researchers, educators, and professionals with insights into the impact of effective EA on IT governance, IT portfolio management, and IT outsourcing, creating a must-have holding for academic libraries and organizational information centers. - eGovernment - Enterprise Architecture - Government EA -

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Jan A.P. Hoogervorst (2009) Enterprise Governance and Enterprise Engineering http://slashdemocracy.org/book/3540926704 Achieving enterprise success necessitates addressing enterprises in ways that match the complexity and dynamics of the modern enterprise environment. However, since the majority of enterprise strategic initiatives appear to fail – among which those regarding information technology – the currently often practiced approaches to strategy development and implementation seem more an obstacle than an enabler for strategic enterprise success. Two themes underpin the fundamentally different views outlined in this book. First, the competence-based perspective on governance, whereby employees are viewed as the crucial core for effectively addressing the complex, dynamic and uncertain enterprise reality, as well as for successfully defining and operationalizing strategic choices. Second, enterprise engineering as the formal conceptual framework and methodology for arranging a unified and integrated enterprise design, which is a necessary condition for enterprise success. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Doing Enterprise Architecture: Enabling the agile institution http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/services/techwatch/reports/earlyadopters.aspx At the beginning of 2008, JISC funded a pilot project which set out to explore the applicability of Enterprise Architecture (EA), a strategic management technique for enabling large companies to adapt to change, to the higher education operational context. Although largely unknown in the education sector, EA has been widely adopted over the last 15 years in the commercial world and in public sector organisations. EA provides an evolving, dynamic way of describing and aligning the functional aspects of an organisation: its people, activities, tools, resources and data/information, so that they work more effectively together to achieve the organisation's business goals. Three universities - Cardiff, Liverpool John Moores and King's College London - were the early adopter organisations that were considered suitably 'EA ready' to undertake a 12-month evaluation of EA in the context of their own institution. In particular they road-tested TOGAF, a non-proprietary framework for undertaking EA which has been developed by The Open Group. During the course of the project a small group of staff from each institution was exposed to the work of The Open Group, trained in the use of TOGAF and associated tools and techniques, and supported in the development of the first stages of an architecture for their institution. - Enterprise Architecture -

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IT and finance people must learn to work together http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/12554/technology/it-and-finance-people-must-learn-to-work-together Gartner: The CIO and CFO have to devote time to aligning the economic architecture and the enterprise architecture of the business. In order for CFOs and CIOs to ally closely, they must come to a shared view of value. The most powerful tools for achieving this alignment are portfolio management and enterprise architecture. - Enterprise Architecture -

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The Enterprise Architecture Conference 2009 http://www.irmuk.co.uk/eac2009/ 8-10 June 2009, London, UK. With John Zachman, Andy Mulholland, John Gøtze, Sally Bean, Chris Potts, Tim Shoubridge and many others. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Turf buster: Enterprise architecture does the trick http://fcw.com/articles/2009/02/23/enterprise-architecture-recreation.aspx Creating a Web site that combines information from multiple agencies is always difficult, especially when agency leaders become territorial about the data they supply. But the Interior Department, the spearhead of Recreation.gov, combined a well-developed enterprise architecture with a set of strong policies to make it happen. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Coming soon: The ultimate industry architecture http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=333320 The hotel industry is the first to be applying enterprise architecture concepts across an entire industry. When completed, the industry architecture (IA) will describe nearly all the business processes, applications, data and technology required to operate a hotel or resort. Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), a global consortium of the industry's major stakeholders, is leading the effort. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Understanding Your Enterprise Architect: A Guide for Managers http://www.cio.com/article/print/478931 JP Morgenthal: You've spent months considering the right person for your open requisition for an enterprise architect (EA). You've had the job candidate meet with representatives from the business and IT, you've extended a job offer, he's accepted it - and now your new enterprise architect will be joining your company. Since the EA is typically a senior role, this is a highly-visible hire and you want the EA to be successful for the company's sake and for your own. Thus, the next step is critical. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Enterprise Architecture Resolutions for 2009 http://blog.cutter.com/2009/01/26/enterprise-architecture-resolutions-for-2009/ Mike Rosen, Cutter Consortium:As 2009 brings dramatic change to the economy, politics, and IT, some consistency might be in order. So, as I have in past years, I'm making suggestions for New Year's resolutions for enterprise architects. - Enterprise Architecture -

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Federal Segment Architecture Methodology (FSAM) http://www.fsam.gov/ The Federal Segment Architecture Methodology (FSAM) is a step-by-step process for developing and using segment architectures that was developed by distilling proven best practices from across Federal agencies. Use of the FSAM should result in more complete and consistent segment architecture products and will result in greater reuse of segment architectures by providing key information that informs downstream processes for capital planning, security (e.g. certification and accreditation), and the system development life cycle. - Enterprise Architecture -

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