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It’s interesting to note that Enterprise Architecture has made their way up to the boardroom just as a board-level talk of outsourcing did in the 1990s.

The CFOs and board are looking at the economics of enterprise architecture as a blueprint to business transformation. It has been established beyond doubt that successful organizations have achieved significant performance achievements based on architecture driven initiative resulting in reduction in IT ...

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It's few months since Zachman Framework version 3, was announced. Interestingly, this is the most EA-inclusive representation of the Zachman Framework over the last 40 years. The new version is the culmination of 4 decades of experience and it took nearly 12 months for Zachman International to prepare the " The Zachman Ontology for Enterprise Architecture".
There are several noteworthy changes in the new version which raises the understanding level and discards ...

Updated 23rd February 2012 at 03:37 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

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It's already 12 days since the New Year began. The need for managing change and demand for quick response to the ongoing challenges are mounting pressure on time and resource utilization. Though some of the disciplines like “management” (invented by Peter Drucker nearly 70 years back) and “enterprise architecture” (invented by John Zachman nearly 34 years) are handy, people around us make it difficult sometime ;-).

Time is one of the commodities which seem ...

Updated 12th January 2012 at 08:37 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

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This post took more time than I had planned. As most of the last week was spent traveling and attending tutorials with John Zachman.
It’s always enjoyable and great learning associated with such travels. We just covered four cities in India within five days. Not to mention CXO dinner meets in Mumbai & Bangalore, which went up to late nights.

In the first part of this series, I deliberated on how to define strategy models and the key factors to consider, transformation from ...

Updated 3rd June 2011 at 03:54 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

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Problem - How do you transform a business Strategy to IT implementation artefact?,

Let’s quickly look at some of the challenges?

1. Is there a connection between business strategy and the software programs?
2. What are the key abstractions for modelling business ideas?
3. What are the types of artefacts to capture the system models?
4. How to map business activities with the software component definition?
5. How easy is to transform the business models

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