Dragon1 Textbook

What is in the Dragon1 Textbook?

Visual Enterprise Architecture, a textbook on the Open Method Dragon1, is a book for both upcoming and experienced architects and managers involved in starting up and managing companies, conducting business transformations, and driving innovation.

This textbook explains the added value of Visual Enterprise Architecture for steering and managing companies. Dragon1 can be used as a strategic steering tool and as an open method that can be easily embedded within a company. For example, in addition to its approach to working with architecture, Dragon1 provides a methodical interpretation, visualizing and communicating architecture to support imagery and decision-making.

Dragon1 has combined the power of three disciplines: architecture design, business administration, and information science. Dragon1 aims to achieve one thing with this: to highlight the advantages of enterprise architecture in the design and realization of sustainable and future-proof buildings, constructions, solutions, and reuse landscapes for the design and realization of complex and integrated business/IT building works within companies.

More than other methods, Dragon1 asks the architect a lot of creativity in the field of making designs for these structures and solutions in the company. The architect is encouraged by Dragon1 to create an architecture design at a conceptual level, in which they are accustomed to other principles. For example, conceptual principles are the explanations of the underlying mechanisms by which a concept works and produces results that make the solution profitable.

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