Architectural Thinking

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Architecture functions establish organizational capabilities and solutions for the digital challenges of the 21st century.
Architecture function
Architecture functions implement the central architecture disciplines of enterprise, domain, and solution architecture. They identify systematic deficits, opportunities, synergy, and innovation potentials as well as risks. They establish transparency and promote the reuse of conceptual and physical resources in the enterprise. They define a methodological and regulatory framework within which solution architects operate and ensure effective communication between all architectural disciplines.
Strategic portfolio decisions made by enterprise architects are realized and put into practice by solution architects. As change agents, architecture functions transform uncontrolled complexity into controllable complexity.
Architecture functions contribute to strategy, portfolio planning, and transformation in modern enterprises ...
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Strategic architecture innovation, baselining, and target planning as a contribution to strategy development.
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Early vision development as a contribution to demand management.
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Architecture alternatives development as a contribution to application, service, and project portfolio management.
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Architecture methodologies and governance as a contribution to enterprise and transformation management.
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Transformation design and planning as a contribution to service and project management.
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Architecture development as a contribution to the evolution of digital solutions.
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Architecture validation as a contribution to the quality assurance of enterprise solutions.
Exploit your architecture function potentials
Exploit your own architecture potentials by ...
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Establishing an architecture function or evolving your existing organization to ensure effective handling of complexity, transparency, and portfolio decisions. Details ...
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Systematizing the relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness of your architectural contributions by means of methodical stringency. Details ...
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Establishing a domain architecture discipline that enables smart portfolio decisions and views significant areas of your organization (i.e. domains) as a whole - i.e. as systems with their own architecture. Details ...
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Establishing a solution architecture discipline to realize your digital transformation projects efficiently and effectively. Details ...
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Make the continuous training and development of your architects in theory and practice a maxim. Details ...
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Integrate quality control into architecture development to ensure the evolutionary fitness of your business not only in the short term - but in the long term. Details ...