Benchmark Consulting, the creator of IRIS Business Architect, is proud to announce its partnership with Actone. Actone is a management consultant firm. Its mission is to help businesses realize their strategies and apply them into action. With active membership in international forums and communities in recent years, Actone experts have achieved a deep and [...]
IRIS Business Architect is not just another EA tool. It’s foremost a business-centric collaborative planning software application that includes business design, transformation architecture, initiative/project planning, and agile delivery for the entire planning ecosystem of an organization. It’s often owned by the Business Transformation Committee of an organization, not just the CIO. Here’s how our software [...]
I could not agree more with Nick Malik[1], that wrote: “Agile architecture. It not only can be done, but it is an essential skill for Digital Transformation.[2]” Agile architecture is necessary for dynamic and competitive environments, agile corporate planning ecosystems, and highly iterative initiative deliveries. Yet, agile architecture does not mean free for all. Far [...]
Delivering agile business architecture is becoming an essential skill for digital transformation, which is one of the greatest business challenges of our time. Delivering it successfully requires a level of agility that traditional enterprise architecture struggles to cope with. Planning and developing architectural concepts upfront are essential, but it needs to be done differently. Long [...]
Whitepaper by Daniel Lambert Product management is an essential ingredient to a successful customer-centric business transformation. For many mature organizations, product management will sometimes be involved in the creation of a new product, but much more frequently it will involve revamping existing products, or more precisely architecting appealing value propositions made of tailor-made products for [...]
Whitepaper by Daniel Lambert Here is the amazing story of Mela Apfel[1], a Business Architecture Director at Apple Republic[2], and how she and her team are assisting Apple Republic in completing a successful Merger and Acquisition using business architecture. Context Mela Apfel has been appointed about three months ago to the position of director – [...]
Enterprise architecture needs sufficient resources to plan and map proper customer-driven business architecture, but the 3 domains of IT architecture should not be neglected, which are application/service, information/data, and technology/infrastructure. The Importance of Value in Business Architecture The business architecture domain within enterprise architecture is not just about business capabilities and business processes. It is [...]
Whitepaper written by Daniel Lambert Structuring an Enterprise or a Business Architecture model without measuring any of its key elements is a pure waste of time. An enterprise architect practice that mostly limits itself to information technology (“IT”) architecture metrics has a very siloed point of view of the organization and will usually not be [...]
Whitepaper written by Daniel Lambert Most well-known and traditional businesses are deploying digital technologies on the cloud, using the Internet of things and mobile applications. More and more are testing and starting to deploy artificial intelligence within their operations. However, just a few of these established companies have been designed for digital from the beginning. [...]
Benchmark Consulting, the creators of IRIS Business Architect, is proud to announce its partnership with ACROSS & AHEAD. ACROSS & AHEAD is a specialist provider of advisory and training services in enterprise architecture, business architecture, business design, and digital transformation. Its mission is to help enterprises to look at business and operating models holistically and [...]
