Enterprise Architecture Made Simple: Using the Ready, Set, Go Approach to Achieving Information Centricity

Learn how to institute and implement enterprise architecture in your organization. You can make a quick start and establish a baseline for your enterprise architecture within ten weeks, then grow and stabilize the architecture over time using the proven Ready, Set, Go Approach.

Reading this book will:

  1. Give you directions on how to institute and implement enterprise architecture in your organization. You will be able to build close relationships with stakeholders and delivery teams, but you will not need to micromanage the architecture's operations.
  2. Increase your awareness that enterprise architecture is about business, not information technology.
  3. Enable you to initiate and facilitate dramatic business development. The architecture of an enterprise must be tolerant of currently unknown business initiatives.
  4. Show you how to get a holistic view of the process of implementing enterprise architecture.
  5. Make you aware that information is a key business asset and that information architecture is a key part of the enterprise architecture.
  6. Allow you to learn from our experiences. This book is based on our 30 years of work in the enterprise architecture field, colleagues in Europe, customer cases, and students.

We do not pretend to cover all you need to know about enterprise architecture within these pages. Rather, we give you the information that is most important for effective and successful guidance. Sometimes, less is more.

If your company is about to make a major change and you are looking for a way to reduce the changes into manageable pieces--and still retain control of how they fit together--this is your handbook. Maybe you are already acting as an enterprise architect and using a formal method, but you need practical hints. Or maybe you are about to set up an enterprise architect network or group of specialists and need input on how to organize your work.

The Ready-Set-Go method for introducing enterprise architecture provides you, the enterprise architect, with an immediate understanding of the basic steps for starting, organizing, and operating the entirety of your organization's architecture. Chapter 1: Ready shows how to model and analyze your business operations, assess their current status, construct a future scenario, compare it to the current structure, analyze what you see, and show the result in a city plan. Chapter 2: Set deals with preparing for the implementation of the architecture with governance, enterprise architecture organization, staffing, etc. This is the organizing step before beginning the actual work. Chapter 3: Go establishes how to implement a city plan in practice. It deals with the practicalities of working as an enterprise architect and is called the "running" step.

The common thread through all aspects of the enterprise architect's work is the architect's mastery of a number of tools, such as business models, process models, information models, and matrices. We address how to initiate the architecture process within the organization in such a way that the overarching enterprise architecture and architecture-driven approach can be applied methodically and gradually improved.

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Enterprise Architecture Made Simple: Using the Ready, Set, Go Approach to Achieving Information Centricity

Learn how to institute and implement enterprise architecture in your organization. You can make a quick start and establish a baseline for your enterprise architecture within ten weeks, then grow and stabilize the architecture over time using the proven Ready, Set, Go Approach.

Reading this book will:

  1. Give you directions on how to institute and implement enterprise architecture in your organization. You will be able to build close relationships with stakeholders and delivery teams, but you will not need to micromanage the architecture's operations.
  2. Increase your awareness that enterprise architecture is about business, not information technology.
  3. Enable you to initiate and facilitate dramatic business development. The architecture of an enterprise must be tolerant of currently unknown business initiatives.
  4. Show you how to get a holistic view of the process of implementing enterprise architecture.
  5. Make you aware that information is a key business asset and that information architecture is a key part of the enterprise architecture.
  6. Allow you to learn from our experiences. This book is based on our 30 years of work in the enterprise architecture field, colleagues in Europe, customer cases, and students.

We do not pretend to cover all you need to know about enterprise architecture within these pages. Rather, we give you the information that is most important for effective and successful guidance. Sometimes, less is more.

If your company is about to make a major change and you are looking for a way to reduce the changes into manageable pieces--and still retain control of how they fit together--this is your handbook. Maybe you are already acting as an enterprise architect and using a formal method, but you need practical hints. Or maybe you are about to set up an enterprise architect network or group of specialists and need input on how to organize your work.

The Ready-Set-Go method for introducing enterprise architecture provides you, the enterprise architect, with an immediate understanding of the basic steps for starting, organizing, and operating the entirety of your organization's architecture. Chapter 1: Ready shows how to model and analyze your business operations, assess their current status, construct a future scenario, compare it to the current structure, analyze what you see, and show the result in a city plan. Chapter 2: Set deals with preparing for the implementation of the architecture with governance, enterprise architecture organization, staffing, etc. This is the organizing step before beginning the actual work. Chapter 3: Go establishes how to implement a city plan in practice. It deals with the practicalities of working as an enterprise architect and is called the "running" step.

The common thread through all aspects of the enterprise architect's work is the architect's mastery of a number of tools, such as business models, process models, information models, and matrices. We address how to initiate the architecture process within the organization in such a way that the overarching enterprise architecture and architecture-driven approach can be applied methodically and gradually improved.

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Enterprise Architecture Made Simple: Using the Ready, Set, Go Approach to Achieving Information Centricity

by Hakan and Aderinne Edvinsson, Lottie Aderinne
Enterprise Architecture Made Simple: Using the Ready, Set, Go Approach to Achieving Information Centricity

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Learn how to institute and implement enterprise architecture in your organization. You can make a quick start and establish a baseline for your enterprise architecture within ten weeks, then grow and stabilize the architecture over time using the proven Ready, Set, Go Approach.

Reading this book will:

  1. Give you directions on how to institute and implement enterprise architecture in your organization. You will be able to build close relationships with stakeholders and delivery teams, but you will not need to micromanage the architecture's operations.
  2. Increase your awareness that enterprise architecture is about business, not information technology.
  3. Enable you to initiate and facilitate dramatic business development. The architecture of an enterprise must be tolerant of currently unknown business initiatives.
  4. Show you how to get a holistic view of the process of implementing enterprise architecture.
  5. Make you aware that information is a key business asset and that information architecture is a key part of the enterprise architecture.
  6. Allow you to learn from our experiences. This book is based on our 30 years of work in the enterprise architecture field, colleagues in Europe, customer cases, and students.

We do not pretend to cover all you need to know about enterprise architecture within these pages. Rather, we give you the information that is most important for effective and successful guidance. Sometimes, less is more.

If your company is about to make a major change and you are looking for a way to reduce the changes into manageable pieces--and still retain control of how they fit together--this is your handbook. Maybe you are already acting as an enterprise architect and using a formal method, but you need practical hints. Or maybe you are about to set up an enterprise architect network or group of specialists and need input on how to organize your work.

The Ready-Set-Go method for introducing enterprise architecture provides you, the enterprise architect, with an immediate understanding of the basic steps for starting, organizing, and operating the entirety of your organization's architecture. Chapter 1: Ready shows how to model and analyze your business operations, assess their current status, construct a future scenario, compare it to the current structure, analyze what you see, and show the result in a city plan. Chapter 2: Set deals with preparing for the implementation of the architecture with governance, enterprise architecture organization, staffing, etc. This is the organizing step before beginning the actual work. Chapter 3: Go establishes how to implement a city plan in practice. It deals with the practicalities of working as an enterprise architect and is called the "running" step.

The common thread through all aspects of the enterprise architect's work is the architect's mastery of a number of tools, such as business models, process models, information models, and matrices. We address how to initiate the architecture process within the organization in such a way that the overarching enterprise architecture and architecture-driven approach can be applied methodically and gradually improved.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935504634
Publisher: Technics Publications
Publication date: 11/01/2013
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 180
Product dimensions: 1.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

How to derive the architecture and its governance 4

What is the problem? 5

Ready, Set, Go overview 8

Conventions used in this book 10

About the authors 11

Chapter 1 Ready 13

City plan basic elements 14

1.1 Initiating the assignment 16

Purpose of EA and EA awareness 17

Executive sponsor and management commitment 20

Participants 21

Risks 23

Gathering knowledge and getting started 25

Checklist: Results of the initiation 28

1.2 Modeling the business processes and information 29

Modeling business processes 29

Modeling the business information structure 34

Oh no, not data modeling! 35

Business information modeling basics 36

How to produce a business information model 39

Documenting a business information model 41

Expressing business expectations 43

Expressing business expectations using Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas 45

Expressing business expectations using Ross's Operating Model 47

Linking business processes to objectives and values 50

1.3 Analyzing consequences and opportunities 53

Identifying entity groups 55

Determining information life cycle type 57

Category information 58

Resource information 59

Business event information 59

Detail operational transaction information ("big data") 60

Distinguishing between resource and event entity groups 61

Describing the processes' need of information 66

Describing existing systems 69

Analyzing opportunities and assessing benefit 71

1.4 Designing the optimum architecture 77

Using business capabilities 77

Understanding the process and system matrices 81

Forming ideal blocks in the architecture matrix 87

Forming a realistic architecture 93

1.5 Planning the enterprise architecture deliverables 99

Short-term EA planning 100

Long-term EA planning 100

Establishing a roadmap 102

Compiling a city plan 104

1.6 Summary of the Ready step 104

Chapter 2 SET 109

Getting set 110

2.1 Identifying stakeholders and target groups 111

Conducting a SWOT analysis: analyzing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats 113

Formulating targets for EA 113

Securing support from management 114

2.2 Forming an EA-oriented development environment 115

EA activities in business development 115

EA activities when forming an IT vision and IT strategy 117

EA activities to perform when forming EA and IT plans 117

EA activities when executing development projects 118

2.3 Forming the EA ownership 121

Entity owner and entity manager 123

Who decides, who influences? 126

Form a decision process 128

2.4 Organizing the enterprise architects 130

Describing roles, mandates, and responsibilities 130

Describing competence needs and recruiting 131

Establishing prioritization rules for projects 133

Identifying triggers and warnings 136

2.5 Identifying requirements for EA tools 138

Forming meta-models 138

Identifying rules for models 141

2.6 Communicating and planning 142

Key success factors 142

Chapter 3 GO 145

3.1 Conducting enterprise architecture work in practice 146

Participating in projects 146

Working with information models and conceptual models 150

Working with information models for the architecture and for requirements specification 153

Supporting projects relating to requirements specifications 154

Providing support for systems acquisitions 155

Developing triggers and actions 157

Trigger: a start date for a project is reached 157

Trigger: a project runs out of control 157

Trigger: a new business model, strategy, or plan is published 158

Trigger: a new ERP system is acquired 159

Trigger: a new or updated business plan is published 160

Trigger: a new person is appointed to a key decision-making role 160

Trigger: a company is acquired 160

Trigger: a new product or way of doing business is introduced 161

Trigger: a new (unplanned) project is initiated 161

Trigger: a new systems development method is selected 162

Trigger: a new key partner needs to be chosen by management 163

Managing models 163

Communicating target achievements 163

Developing standard/generic models 164

3.2 improving the EA work 164

Monitoring the external environment 164

Fine-tuning entities and processes 165

Improving regulations 165

Appendix: The Zachman Framework and Our Ea Process 167

Further Reading 171

Index 173

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