The single most important process change that you can make in “climbing the ladder” from a tactical EA program to a strategic one is to connect business architecture with the PMO.

Supply chain/logistics meet most of the criteria required for a domain or application area when it comes to suitability for applying blockchain technology.

Confused and confusing conversations centered on “process” occur frequently at organizations large and small, with process efficiency, process governance, and process adoption all suffering as a result. It’s vital, therefore, to take the time to understand the root cause of the confusion and help people grasp the needs and perspectives of the other stakeholder groups.

Sooner or later, all industries will be impacted by digital disruption.

At a recent Cutter webinar, an attendee asked how blockchain is being implemented in the digital marketing space and how the technology's inherent transparency and security capabilities can benefit digital marketing and advertising in general. Since we are seeing considerable interest in the subject, I examine it in this week's Advisor.

In this Advisor, I describe the fundamental human causes of the growth of technical debt.

For the most part, the IT function is technically capable of designing and implementing solutions that remediate technology debt (TD). The challenge lies in obtaining non-IT executive sponsorship and funding for TD projects.

If your organization is interested in exploring the nature and uses of blockchain technology, joining with others who are similarly inclined might prove a valuable way to get up to speed quickly.

Quantifying the results of business architecture certainly has its challenges, but there are creative ways to do so, even with limited resources. This Advisor describes the benefits and challenges of measuring business architecture success and provides some practical approaches that can be used to accomplish this very important activity.

Loyalty rewards programs are considered one of the most effective means for companies to attract and retain customers, and for increasing customer satisfaction and experience overall. Blockchain initially looks promising for shaking up the loyalty rewards program industry, and a number of companies are working on solutions to try and make this happen. 

The IT governance task can no longer be seen solely as a compliance activity. As organizational structures become flatter, and interfirm partnerships become more commonplace, the onus is moving more toward a cooperative approach to IT governance. In this Advisor, we look at using a relationship-centered approach to a common IT governance situation in an IT outsourcing relationship.

The key element of competitive advantage lies in access to the data.

This Advisor considers what kind of architecture is required to support conversational interfaces.

Blockchain technology continues to capture considerable interest among organizations and the media. But what are the major issues organizations are encountering in their efforts to adopt blockchain? The latest results from our ongoing survey on blockchain adoption identify seven key issues and concerns organizations said are negatively impacting their blockchain efforts.

To successfully support the adoption of Agile and to scale Agile throughout the enterprise, progressive EA leaders must focus on finding ways to provide just-in-time, relevant, and useful input into the process.

For financial institutions, regulatory reporting has become something of a jigsaw puzzle — one that must be cobbled together into a coherent picture from several boxes into which the pieces from different puzzles have been put over time, for an audience that will never appreciate the pain involved in organizing that picture or the time and manpower required to build it.

For your EA program to “climb the ladder” to strategic relevance, one of the most important investments is in an integrated business architecture practice.

I predict that within the next three years the market for blockchain solutions will have progressed to the extent that the key infrastructure components will be available, security issues will be identified and mapped out, and experts available in applying the technology to specific applications and industries will start becoming available, thus providing the support for implementing and running blockchain applications on a daily operational basis.

This Advisor discusses how scaling architectural process and artifacts to suit Agile practices enhances the value of the architect's role.

Innovation's potential is brought to fruition only when it is complemented by back-end cloud technologies.

The EVM method was first developed to help manage complex R&D projects, which are mostly characterized by an unstable, volatile, and evolving scope. It is therefore no surprise that EVM applies to Agile projects.

Successful digital transformation requires strategic architecture thinking.

Upper management is starting to take a real interest in blockchain technology, and they are asking their technology and innovation people, “Hey, what can we do with this?”

For your EA program to “climb the ladder” to strategic relevance, one of the most important investments is in an integrated business architecture practice.

With constantly faster innovation cycles, turning digital artifacts into digital capital for better understanding of internal and external innovation performance is critical. To seize these chances, managers should rely on three key principles.