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Design To Win

by Arron Rouse October 30, 2023April 16, 2025
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Arron’s STORM Pattern

by Arron Rouse January 25, 2016April 16, 2025
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How to recognise a Capability

by Arron Rouse October 31, 2019April 16, 2025
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Video: Enterprise Architecture: An Introduction

by Arron Rouse June 12, 2018April 16, 2025
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Strategic Design Summary

by Arron Rouse January 7, 2021April 16, 2025
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Design To Win

by Arron Rouse October 30, 2023April 16, 2025

Can one book really be for both beginners and experts? Yes. For beginners, the book explains things as though you’re a smart person who wants

Architecture Strategy

Arron’s STORM Pattern

by Arron Rouse January 25, 2016April 16, 2025

A world first — it is a practical pattern for implementing any strategy. It will not make your strategy any good. It will not guarantee that your strategy is affordable. But it will allow you to model the business architecture of any strategy.

Architecture Strategy

How to recognise a Capability

by Arron Rouse October 31, 2019April 16, 2025

An updated version of this article is in my book “Design To Win”. You can still just learn it from here. However, there’s a vast

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Video: Enterprise Architecture: An Introduction

by Arron Rouse June 12, 2018April 16, 2025

Short enough for execs and long enough to get some of the bigger points across.

Architecture Strategy

Strategic Design Summary

by Arron Rouse January 7, 2021April 16, 2025

“Enterprise architecture a well-defined practice for conducting enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation, using a comprehensive approach at all times, for the successful development and

Architecture

The Routemaster Philosophy

by Arron Rouse January 15, 2015April 16, 2025

As enterprise architects we often find the solution to major business problems using bespoke development. That seems like a curious choice given how often bespoke

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Build on the Regulations

by Arron Rouse December 20, 2014January 24, 2022

New regulations can seem like a major hurdle in any industry. The problems come from a lot of directions. Take the existing regulations. The Compliance

Architecture Comment

Stakeholders are the Key

by Arron Rouse December 9, 2014January 24, 2022

Stakeholders are the key to successful enterprise architecture. One of the first things that you have to do in any architectural endeavour is decide who

Architecture Comment

Artefacts of a Civilisation

by Arron Rouse December 18, 2014January 24, 2022

Understanding the structure of an enterprise When you first approach enterprise architecture for a large organisation it can seem like an impossible mess. The usual

Architecture Comment

View to a Skill

by Arron Rouse December 9, 2014January 24, 2022

One of the most important words in enterprise architecture is View. A normal architect who designs a new office building has lots of drawings. There

Architecture Comment

A Failure of Enterprise Architects

by Arron Rouse December 9, 2014January 24, 2022

Unless we do something, pretty soon a gathering of enterprise architects will be called a Failure of EAs Articles like the one below worry me:

Architecture

Simple Comprehensive Metamodel

by Arron Rouse January 7, 2021April 16, 2025

Someone asked me what I thought would be the simplest metamodel that could describe any enterprise operating model. This is a refined version of what

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Thoughts of the Day 2025

by Arron Rouse January 1, 2025May 18, 2025

01 Jan 2025 — When people, process and resources turn inputs into outputs, that is a Function. Whereas a Capability is the desired effect of

Architecture Thoughts of the day

Thoughts of the Day 2024

by Arron Rouse January 1, 2024April 16, 2025

01 Jan 2024 — Start with the assumption your stakeholders are smart people who configured their department the best way they knew how. 02 Jan

Architecture Thoughts of the day

Thoughts of the Day 2023

by Arron Rouse January 1, 2023April 16, 2025

01 Jan 2023 — A quarter of a century ago, Enterprise Architecture merged with business strategy, business planning and business process management. Most IT architects

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Thoughts of the Day 2022

by Arron Rouse January 1, 2022April 16, 2025

01 Jan 2022 — “It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great

Architecture Thoughts of the day

Thoughts of the Day 2021

by Arron Rouse January 1, 2021January 27, 2022

01 Jan 2021 — If all you do is believe in yourself, you may never get anywhere. Success comes to those who take action whether

Architecture Thoughts of the day

Thoughts of the Day 2020

by Arron Rouse December 24, 2019April 16, 2025

23 Dec 2019 — EA helps turn an enterprise from a chaotic system into a deterministic system. Markets are mostly chaotic rather than deterministic. The

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Welcome to ClassiQ

by Arron Rouse November 21, 2014January 24, 2022

ClassiQ is a small firm of enterprise architects with a long history of helping business people understand and get the best from tools around them.

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