Mark Paauwe Blogs

Application Rationalization Approach Tool How to Compile a List of Applications to Rationalize is one of the key questions in doing application rationalization.

Business Blueprinting at an insurance company lets them see patterns and opportunities to integrate systems to deduplicate functionality.

Can anyone do Visual Enterprise Architecture? EA is becoming more important as businesses become more dependent on data, information, and technology.

Many people who try to model and capture an organization's business and IT are stuck on how detailed they should go about creating the data model.

The question for CxOs (owners/clients) and architects is: Is the enterprise's structure fit for the future? Does it answer the enterprise's strategy?

What Are The Top 10 Architecture Principles Of The American Winner Enterprise? Many people would like to adopt that winner mentality in their own company.

13 Principles for Strategic Decision Making makes it easier for enterprise architects to collaborate with their CIO.

An Example Vision. What's the use of a blog on 'Vision' without a clear example of a vision? In this blog, I am using an example vision about campers.

Any vision is worth its weight in gold. How vital are vision and strategy to you? Are they based on your future images, or do you just copy them?

ArchiMate Business Services in Healthcare. A blog about defining and designing exemplary service for an organization as an enterprise architect.

Enterprise Architecture Principles Framework for helping thousands of architecture principles developed and documented to be used.

Application Rationalization with Dragon1: 10 Rules and Guidelines You Can Save Money With. These 10 rules are derived from design principles that I have collected.

ArchiMate defines a business layer as a set of business concepts in a meta-model. Dragon1 extends it with Service, Function, Activity, Person, Robot, and Capability.

Many projects in organizations go wrong without a need. Dragon1 Smart IT Project Checklist helps prevent IT Projects from failing.

Dragon1 enables you to work with Indicators in the Architecture Repository. Indicators provide specific information on a state or condition.

Why should we use a single source of truth repository in our company?

Architecture Principles are a total disaster. Let's face it. They are often produced but rarely used.

Chart your Project with a Project Landscape Map, a visualization of the project itself. This way, you can measure, check, evaluate, and change.

How to Design Architecture Principles—The word principle was originally used to explain how you know or believe something works (action-reaction, cause-effect).

Pure Logic: Making Archimate More Useful with the entity class of Activity. The Dragon1 Modeling language contains over 200 default and defined entity classes.

IT Managers have better things to do than create a business process model, application landscape, or IT infrastructure blueprint themselves. What if there is something to do for them?

What are the top priority views for creating your Application Landscape? You can create about 25 views of your Application Landscape for your stakeholders.

Application Landscaping with Icons and Colors blog is about managing old and outdated applications to save costs.

Document Enterprise Architecture using Conceptual Modeling. Dragon1 is the most innovative enterprise architecture tool in these cases.

With the basic elements of building and landscape architecture: Point, Line, Plane, and Volume, you can create any type of architecture or design.

Enterprise Architecture Framework Diagram, a First Aid Kit for Projects. Are you planning to create one for your stakeholders? The arguments why and how.

Generating Drill Down Application Landscapes on Dragon1. Using a 1-2-3 approach: Import, Setup Rules and Tune.

How does Dragon1 help out projects running out of time and budget? A GANTT Chart, a product and work breakdown structure, a project landscape map.

How To Do Quick Visual Problem Solving with Dragon1 is the question from Bart. "Do you always need a long, complex checklist and create big visualizations?"

Modern View of Business Capabilities as part of Business Architecture.

Never use the word Enterprise Architecture with Clients. Instead, use a blueprint with the strategy on the left, architecture in the middle, and transformation (projects, deliverables) on the right.

Seven reasons why enterprise architects should use EA tools when working with enterprise architecture are a priority on the agenda.

The next steps for certified TOGAF and ArchiMate Architects are the Dragon1 EA Method, Enterprise Architecture Training, Dragon1 Foundation, and Dragon1 Certified.

We have created a step-by-step guide to help you learn and use the Dragon1 software, deal with your challenges, and get support in your work.

The First 100 Days as an Enterprise Architect. Analyst firms, like Gartner, claim to provide a roadmap to being successful as an architect.

The Value of Enterprise Architecture is explained easily. What percentage of the projects were absolute successes in the past three years?

Value Streams are Pure Gold for Business Architecture. Visualize the flow of information and materials through the company.

What if organizations are fooled by enterprise modeling labeled as enterprise architecture? You can not expect to contribute thoughtfully to fundamental organizational changes.