Worked-Examples for EA Practice

ARCHITECTURE EXAMPLES: INTRODUCTION

EVERYDAY CHALLENGES

Data-assets and insurance

How do regional differences impact EA?

Capabilities, reference-models and job-descriptions

New economics models – what impact on enterprise architecture?

Tools in action

RBP-EA: From ‘Really Big Picture’ into real-world practice

1. A bit of background
2. The Really Big Picture
3. Putting this into practice

From business-model to enterprise-architecture

1. Step 1: Develop a business-model
2. Step 2: Re-map the overall business-model as related services
3. Step 3: Expand the detail of the overall business-model
4. Step 4: Expand the Key Activities to Archimate ‘Application’ detail
5. Step 5: Expand the Key Resources to Archimate ‘Infrastructure’ detail
6. Step 6: Apply enterprise-architecture disciplines to review the business-model

Business Model Canvas to Archimate (the short version)

1. Step 1: Start with a business-model on Business Model Canvas
2. Step 2: Separate out the players on the business-model
3. Step 3: Expand the detail for the interfaces of the business-model
4. Step 4: Expand the Key Activities
5. Step 5: Expand the Key Resources
6. Step 6: Apply enterprise-architecture disciplines as required

Upwards and sideways from business-model (short version)

1. Investors and beneficiaries
2. Guidance – direction-services
3. Guidance – coordination-services
4. Guidance – validation-services

Upwards and sideways from business-model

1. Investors and beneficiaries
2. Guidance – an overview
3. Guidance – direction-services
4. Guidance – coordination-services
5. Guidance – validation-services

Enterprise Canvas as service-viability checklist

1. As-is, to-be and gap-analysis
2. A note on layers
3. The service itself
4. Nature of service
5. Service-provision
6. Consuming other services
7. Guidance service-relationships
8. Guidance – direction
9. Guidance – coordination
10. Guidance – validation
11. Investors and beneficiaries
12. Iteration and recursion
13. It’s all about story

Enterprise, organisation and the Olympics

1. Olympics as organisation
2. Olympics as market
3. Olympics as enterprise
4. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Enterprise-architecture and organisational health

Costs of acquisition, retention, de-acquisition

1. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

Healthcare and information-flow

Three EA gigs in Mexico

Governance is not an end in itself

Enterprise Canvas for government regulator

On mass-uniqueness

On modelling ‘self-service’ with Archimate

Building effectiveness in a small business

Things I learned while doing 24/7 eldercare

Anthropomorphise your applications?

Enterprise-architecture and the Cloud

PROBLEM-CASES

The cyclist-shopper’s tale

What happens when kurtosis-risk eventuates

The stench of systemic decay

Glitch…

Where is the information when we need it?

Financial-architecture and enterprise-architecture

“Please don’t touch the touchscreen”

CoIT: another architectural disaster unfolds?