Business & Enterprise Architecture

Residual Analysis Project Kickoff

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 02:11:51 -0500

This eight-hour virtual course will help your organization increase the likelihood of success in an early-stage project by applying residual analysis to manage complexity and improve system behavior early in the software systems design phase and build in robustness and resiliency along the way.

How to Create Value and Avoid Obstacles During Acquisitions

Gustav Toppenberg, Stefan Henningsson — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 03:07:41 -0400

Examine your organization's process for acquisitive growth and explore how advances in EA practices can not only help overcome obstacles, but also enable value creation.

Consulting

EA Skill Improvement and Mentoring

Mike Rosen — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 02:04:03 -0400

Your architects need inspiration, new competencies, and added expertise. Led by Cutter Senior Consultant Mike Rosen, these virtual training sessions provide an infusion of expert guidance and best practices that will help your business and enterprise architects improve their skills, find their direction, and remove roadblocks to their individual and collective success.

Created for Virtual Delivery

Propel Your Strategic Vision with Business Architecture

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 02:10:30 -0400

How can business architecture help execute strategic vision? This two-day workshop led by Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Brian Cameron explores the ways you can structure your business architecture to effectively facilitate strategy execution.

See you in September?

Kim Leonard — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 04:08:24 -0400

Why not take a moment to visit the Cutter upcoming events page and get one or more of our terrific autumn events into your agenda?

Architecting the Digital Business Platform

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 04:07:54 -0400

During this two-day workshop at your organization, Cutter Senior Consultant Mike Rosen will explore the requirements for the new digital economy and describe the new “Digital Business Platform” necessary to meet those requirements and sustain success. He'll lay out the overall architecture needed to create that platform and go into detail about the new business, information, application, technology, performance, and security architectures that comprise it. A detailed case study is woven throughout the workshop to illustrate the platform, architectural tradeoffs, and a wide variety of work products across all domains.

Applying Business Architecture for Improved CX

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 03:10:20 -0400

In this one-day workshop presented by Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Whynde Kuehn, you'll learn how to catalyze valuable collaboration between business architects and CX teams. You'll assess current integration efforts between these two distinct disciplines, and identify best practices and opportunities to work together on customer-focused initiatives for increased value.

Consulting

Cost Avoidance — Another Driver for Cloud Migration

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:06:43 -0400

Reducing infrastructure cost has traditionally been the driver for adopting IaaS cloud-hosting.

Enterprise Architecture Courses Online

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 01:11:05 -0400

Cutter Senior Consultant Roger Evernden has developed a comprehensive and integrated set of online modules and courses intended to help you develop your enterprise architecture knowledge and skills.

Created for Virtual Delivery

Why Bother with a Conceptual Reference Model?

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:10:27 -0400

Think about the challenge interpreters at the United Nations undertake. First, they need to understand the concepts being communicated. Next, they translate the concepts for people who speak different languages — without coloring the information with their own perspectives.

Strategy Execution Lifecycle Assessment and Recommendations

Whynde Kuehn — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 02:10:50 -0400

This engagement will help your organization increase the effectiveness of its strategy execution life cycle, starting with strategy and objective formulation and translation, to business and IT initiative planning, through project execution. You'll discover fast and effective ways to turn business strategy into action, ensuring not only survival, but prosperity.

Leadership

Consulting

Highly Regulated Industries Can Move to the Cloud

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 03:10:06 -0400

The cloud industry is loosely defined, unregulated, and quickly evolving. The typical cloud service provider (CSP) business model is very uniform.

Business Architecture is Here to Stay. Here’s One Example Why.

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:09:44 -0400

It seems clear that business architecture, as a discipline, is rapidly growing worldwide. Cutter Consortium’s business architecture experts William Ulrich and Whynde Kuehn are seeing the sophistication of how people are using business architecture expanding.

Conducting an Architectural Risk Assessment — Step 1

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 03:08:48 -0400

An architectural risk assessment is not a penetration test or merely a vulnerability scan. It is an engineering process with the aim of understanding, defining, and defending all the functional output from customers, line workers, corporate staff, and client-server interactions.

5 Steps to Connect EA to Strategy (a Very Short Summary!)

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 30 May 2017 10:05:42 -0400

Many enterprise architecture (EA) teams struggle with creating a program that demonstrates the level of strategic value that they believe EA should have.

What is the Role of the Business Architect?

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:04:14 -0400

There is a common set of questions burning in peoples’ minds when they think about the business architect role, whether they are new to the discipline or experienced but seeking to compare approaches.

Establishing and Maturing a Business Architecture Practice

Whynde Kuehn — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:03:10 -0500

This workshop covers how to establish and mature all aspects of a business architecture practice such as defining value proposition and measuring value, creating a roadmap for the practice, defining governance, selecting tools and defining organizational structures.

Consulting

Security Architecture and Design

Fri, 06 Jan 2017 02:01:23 -0500

From the design and development of individual applications to enterprise network architecture, our approach is to make security an integral part of the finished product, ensure it is cost-effective and acceptable to your employees, and that it differentiates your products from those of your competition.

Leadership

Consulting

EA Programs

Sun, 06 Nov 2016 02:11:23 -0500

An effective EA Program session is the best way to ensure that a project gets started correctly. Cutter's EA Program sessions help establish a project's team values, vision, mission, objectives, project community, measures of success, scope and boundaries, committed resources, and working agreements.

Consulting

Invest in Business Architecture

William Ulrich — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:09:49 -0400

Develop a common voice, shared vision, and a degree of transparency that enable innovative solutions to major business challenges with business architecture consulting led by William Ulrich.

Consulting