I made it to the Gartner BPM Summit 2013 in Washington DC today just in time for the 11am session that Betsy Burton gave on bridging the gap between strategic vision and operational excellence with business architecture (BA). I like her view on this: strategic vision really isn’t much good unless you have a plan [...]
Tagged GartnerBPMI reworked my presentation on BPM in an enterprise architecture context (a.k.a., “why this blog is called ‘Column 2’”) that I originally did at the IRM BPM conference in London in June, and presented it at the Building Business Capability conference in Fort Lauderdale last week. I removed much of the detailed information on BPMN, [...]
Tagged bbccon11I only have one day to attend CASCON this year due to a busy schedule this week, so I am up in Markham (near the IBM Toronto software lab) to attend the NSERC Business Intelligence Network workshop this morning. CASCON is the conference run by IBM’s Centers for Advanced Studies throughout the world, including the [...]
Tagged cascon2011Last day of the Building Business Capability conference, and I attended Louise Harris’ session on process and information architectures as the missing link to improving enterprise performance. She was on the panel on business versus IT architecture that I moderated yesterday, and had a lot of great insight into business architecture and enterprise architecture. Today’s [...]
Tagged bbccon11Forrester analyst Jeff Scott presented at Building Business Capability on what business architecture is and what business architects do. According to their current research, interest in business architecture is very high – more than half of organizations consider it “very important”, and all organizations survey showed some interest – and more than half also have [...]
Tagged bbccon11I just had to attend Claus Jensen’s presentation on actionable architecture with synergies between BPM, EA and SOA since I read two of his white papers in preparing the workshop that I delivered here on Wednesday on BPM in an EA context. I also found out that he’s co-authored a new red book on EA [...]
Tagged IRMBPM, IRMEACHere’s my presentation slides from the workshop that I gave on Wednesday here at the IRM BPM conference in London, entitled Architecting A Business Process Environment: Architecting a Business Process Environment View more presentations from Sandy Kemsley As always, some slides may not make much sense without my commentary (otherwise, why would I be there [...]
Tagged IRMBPM, IRMEACFor the first breakout of the day, I attended Dan Jeavon’s session on Shell’s business architecture practice. For such a massive company – 93,000 employees in 90 countries – this was a big undertaking, and they’ve been at this for five years. He defines business architecture as the business strategy, governance, organization and key business [...]
Tagged IRMBPM, IRMEACMichael zur Muehlen presented this morning on integrating BPM and enterprise architecture, based on work that he’s done with the US Department of Defense. Although they use the DoDAF architecture framework in particular, the concepts are applicable to other similar EA frameworks. Like the Zachman framework, DoDAF prescribes the perspectives that are required, but doesn’t [...]
Tagged BBC2010, BPF, BPMNEduardo Gonzalez of the adidas Group talked about how they are implementing BPM within their organization, particularly the transition from business process models to designing a solution, which ties in nicely with the roundtable that I moderated yesterday. The key issue is that process models are created for the purpose of modeling the existing and [...]
Tagged ba2010, BPM2010, IRMBPMI had a briefing on Metastorm’s M3 collaborative modeling and Smart Business Workspace two weeks ago, and last week we had a follow-up demo. This is the start of a push towards a full BPM suite in the cloud, providing collaborative process modeling and the end user runtime hosted on Azure, but Microsoft still needs [...]
Tagged mashupsBill Rosser presented a decision framework for identifying when to use BPA (business process analysis), EA (enterprise architecture) and BPM modeling tools for modeling processes: all of them can model processes, but which should be used when? It’s first necessary to understand why you’re modeling your processes, and the requirements for the model: these could [...]
Tagged Gartner, GartnerBPMI had a chance last week for a pre-release briefing from The Open Group’s Chris Harding, Forum Director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability, on two new standards that they are releasing today: the Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) and the SOA Governance Framework. These are both vendor-neutral (although several large vendors were involved in their [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture conference in Toronto (my coverage here), and ended up being invited to speak on Dana Gardner’s panel on how the cloud is pushing the enterprise architects’ role beyond IT into business process optimization. You can now find the podcast here, subscribe to the [...]
Tagged open-groupI was in a panel here on Monday, hosted by Dana Gardner and also including John Gøtze of the Association of Enterprise Architects, and Tim Westbrock of EAdirections, where we discussed the issues of extending the scope of architecture beyond the enterprise. This was recorded and will be included in Dana’s usual podcast series within [...]
Tagged open-groupI’ve never attended an Open Group event before, but apparently interactive customer requirements workshops are part of what they do. We’re doing a business scenario workshop to gather requirements for cloud computing, led by Terry Blevins of MITRE, also on the board of the Open Group. The goal is to capture real business requirements, with [...]
Tagged open-groupAnother flashback to Monday, when Jane Varnus of Bank of Montreal and Navdeep Panaich of Capgemini presented the results of a survey about TOGAF 9. They covered a lot of stats about EAs and their organizations, a few of which I found particularly interesting: Architects form 2-4% of IT staff (the fact that the question [...]
Tagged open-groupToday has an track devoted mostly to cloud computing, and we started with Ndu Emuchay of IBM discussing the cloud computing landscape and the importance of standards. IBM is pretty innovative in many areas of new technology – I’ve blogged in the past about their Enterprise 2.0 efforts, and just this morning saw an article [...]
Tagged open-groupAlso on Monday, we heard from Alain Perry from the CIO branch of the Treasury Board Secretariat on how enterprise architecture, supported by the use of TOGAF, is making its way into the Canadian government at all levels. The EA community of practice is supporting the use of TOGAF 9 in order to enable a [...]
Tagged open-groupI was taking notes in a paper notebook at the conference on Monday, and only now have had time to review them and write up a summary. The general sessions opened with Allen Brown of the Open Group discussing their own use of TOGAF in architecting their internal systems. Since they’re making a push to [...]
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