Leading Indicators for Change
Why architects and leaders should look beyond lagging metrics when guiding transformation.
2025
Leading Indicators for Change: Spotting Early Signals Before It’s Too Late
Lagging indicators show the past, but leading indicators give you the early signals that predict if change will succeed. Here’s how to spot and use them.
Service Design Blueprint for a Retail Mobile Experience
Exploring how EDGY service design thinking and capability mapping shape the next generation of retail apps.
TOGAF ADM in Practice – From Baseline to Roadmap
A concrete application of TOGAF ADM, enriched with the EDGY enterprise design language — using Capabilities, Assets, and Processes to make architecture trans...
From Blueprint to Execution: Making Finance Target Architecture Real
In this final post of the series, I explore how to turn a finance target architecture and design blueprint into reality. What does it take to move from visio...
From Finance Target Architecture to Design Blueprint
In my previous post, I outlined a modern finance target architecture with ERP, reporting, a finance data hub, and BI/analytics. This follow-up goes one step ...
Designing a Target Architecture for Finance
Modern finance functions are expected to deliver far more than accurate bookkeeping. Today’s CFOs, controllers, and analysts must ensure compliance, enable a...
Introducing the Finance Target Architecture Series
Finance systems are evolving. In this new series, I’ll explore how target architectures can bring together ERP, reporting, data hubs, and analytics to create...
Capability mapping is a team sport
A Modern Approach to System Design
2024
Unleashing the Power of Capabilities
A Modern Approach to System Design
2022
Autonomy and CI/CD Pipelines
CI/CD — continuous integration and continuous delivery as enablers of autonomy and transformation.
Information and Types of Integration
An overview of common integration styles — APIs, events, and information hubs — with their principles, rationale, and risks.