Design Thinking in Business Capability Modeling
One of the most interesting and difficult challenges of Business Architecture is creating the capability model for an enterprise. In…
Does Academic Sloppiness Hurt EA?
There are surprisingly few researchers publishing articles about Enterprise Architecture from universities. Even well considered programs like Penn State and…
Self Organizing Enterprise Architecture
Our language can limit us. Our words can prevent us from thinking about our world in a clear way. This…
The concept of the “Nearest Common Manager” in Enterprise Architecture
I’m going to share a secret. Something that no one talks about, but is critical to understand if you are…
Disruption – why you need business architecture
Business Architecture is, on occasion, a difficult sell. In many companies, it can be tough to get senior leaders to…
The European EABOK and Enterprise Architecture Pattern Catalog
A number of years ago, I joined up with a small group of architects determined to create an EABOK (Enterprise…
Nick Malik speaking at BBC on ‘Building Demand for Strategy for Non-Strategy Organizations’
Heading up Vanguard EA as Founder and Principle Consultant is Nick Malik, with over a decade in enterprise architecture and more…
Enterprise Architecture and Threat Modeling
What should an Enterprise Architect know about threat modeling? I recently asked on a LinkedIn group about threat modeling and…
The human element to strategy
There is no shortage of business thinkers and authors who will tell us this statement is true: Anyone can create…
Welcoming Archimate to Enterprise Architecture
I’m going to get some heat for that title… I’m sure of it. Archimate has been a diagramming standard for…