ArchiMate (Target) Operating Models

  • by Richard Heward
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  • 26 Apr, 2019
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How using ArchiMate can help define Operating Models

The need for a well understood Operating Model is important to the successful implementation of any business transformation. In fact it’s important to have such a model just to operate and even before any transformation. The change to the ‘Business Architecture’ is often overlooked or poorly articulated. A new Operating Model may drive a change to the organisation (such as consolidated boards, or new groups). Most organisations try to bolt on an Operating Model for a new structure rather than think about what the ideal ‘way of working’ should be first. The definition of an Operating Model is a powerful aspect of doing Enterprise Architecture. Using ArchiMate in its definition is extremely powerful.

This ArchiMate TOMs paper is my approach to using ArchiMate to define Operating Models.

Documenting architecture models using ArchiMate

by Richard Heward • 8 October 2019
This blog paper describes a method of defining documentation structures in the ArchiMate® notation and goes on to use a ‘driving view’ to generate output from the Archi® enterprise architecture modelling tool.

Managing Model Conformity in Archi

by Richard Heward • 26 June 2019
The ArchiMate notation allows for a large combination of concepts and relationships to be able to express what we need for full Enterprise Architecture modelling. However, a lot of organisations don’t initially need all this and it is sometime useful to semi-restrict what is expected. This paper defines a way of achieving this using the excellent Archi® modelling tool and its jArchi scripting language.

Enterprise Architecture Analysis in a Graph Database

by Richard Heward • 19 January 2019
For a long time I have wanted to be able to get data out of the excellent Archi tool into a place where I can perform meaningful queries on it. Queries such as how are items connected, which  are the most connected and so on? This blog describes the journey I went through, what I discovered and how I achieved what I wanted, and more.

Digitising The Strategy

by Richard Heward • 15 April 2018
How using ArchiMate can help understand a Strategy. The is an updated version of the post I made in March 2017. I've simplified some of the concepts.

Blockchain Demystified

by Richard Heward • 12 May 2017
I found this excellent youtube by Westpac Banking which clearly explains the Blockchain concept.

Hacking The Strategy

by Richard Heward • 12 May 2017
This post describes how it is possible to quickly build a solution to a real business problem, in order to see it is a viable strategic course of action. It was done to bring clarity as to what an enterprise solution might look like and how it might work, in order to stimulate stakeholder engagement and help strategic thinking: “Hacking a Strategy”.

Why Enterprise Architecture - What an EA does.

by Richard Heward • 13 March 2017
This video from Gerben Wierda is a great introduction as to why you need an EA. It doesn't fully cover the non technical aspects such as strategy and business, but it's 3 minutes 44 seconds well spent.