Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal

by Dorene Dickman Enterprise Architecture is often judged by its outputs: capability maps, application portfolios, roadmaps, standards, and governance artifacts. But those outputs only create value when they help people make better decisions. That is why Enterprise Architecture soft skills matter so much. They are what turn architecture from documentation into decision suppor...

For more than a decade, visibility has been one of the defining promises of digital supply chain transformation. Organizations invested heavily in dashboards, tracking systems, monitoring platforms, control towers, analytics engines, and increasingly sophisticated reporting capabilities with the belief that greater visibility would naturally produce better operational outcome...

For many years, Enterprise Architecture conversations largely revolved around familiar themes: application portfolios, standards, governance models, target states, technology modernization, and strategic roadmaps. Even transformation programs, despite ambitious rhetoric, often remained bounded by departmental perspectives and isolated optimization efforts. Supply chain discus...

by Palak Dabral, Yutong Han, Qi Gao, Yuechuan Li, Rod Dilnutt and Lelia Meratian Esfahani Can EA and DevOps co-exist? Do they conflict with each other, or can they work hand-in-hand? Can DevOps fulfil its promise of faster development and delivery while working within the boundaries of EA frameworks such as TOGAF®? In this paper, students from the University of Melbourne exam...

by Nadzeya Stalbouskaya Despite heavy investment in artificial intelligence, most enterprises struggle to move AI initiatives beyond the pilot stage. Industry research consistently shows that 70–80% of AI projects never reach sustained production use. While this failure is often attributed to data quality, skills shortages, or immature tooling, these explanations only describ...