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Via email I receive infographics from many respected analist firms like as the Gartner, that claim to provide a roadmap to be a successfull as Enterprise Architect in the first 100 days at a new Organization.

If you think Enterprise Architecture Principles are very important, so important that you take the effort of developing or documenting them, you'd better have them used. Or else it has been a complete waste of time. Here's a framework for your enterprise architecture principles and patterns to get them right and used.

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Visualizing business transformations, do others 'see' and thus better understand.

Sales people work with CRM software (mainly SaaS). Enterprise architects work with PowerPoint. Who is more productive?

The added value of Enterprise Architecture: it all begins with visualizing concepts.

How to find the solution that is actually a solution to your problem? Pick up the right concepts and visualize them with the company's objectives and strategy.

Why not using a checklist for projects? It forces you to deliver project deliverables with the required quality, within budget and time. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Anyone who is responsible for executing the objectives of annual plans concerning the business strategy has an advantage by visualizing the impact of their own department.

Best practice for Application Rationalization providing guidance in controling your application landscape.

Your project needs structure and discipline of the team members, even before the project starts. Otherwise it wasted anyway your time and money.

Taking the right decisions every day in an dynamic enterprise is not the easiest thing to do for a CIO. Creating common overview of the current state of the organisation makes it less complex for him/her and the architect team.