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Digital Transformation and Enterprise Architecture - Starting at the business model

Architecture Enterprise-architecture Business-model-canvas Digital-enterprise Strategy February 01, 2022

(Originally published elsewhere in 2019) When an organisation begins thinking about digital transformation or when strategy and business objectives require focus on value delivery, new capabilities or new customer segments, then there is a need to model the desired state, as a vision clearly stating how to deliver to and meet these objectives. Where can you start? Bottom up, i.e. from the technology layer up may not realize the value if the business outcomes are not articulated beforehand. Technology for the sake of it will not realize value unless it aligns with a business need.

Digital Transformation opportunities and themes from the DTI (2019/03) - Maximizing return on Digital

Architecture Enterprise-architecture Digital-transformation Dti2019review February 01, 2022

(Originally published elsewhere in 2019) This post follows on from my previous review of WEF DTI Digital Transformation themes post on Digital Transformation opportunities and themes. The DTI assessment[1] from May 2018 noted a number of advanced technologies which would impact businesses, through enabling new capabilities and ultimately driving new value to customers and other stakeholders. This post touches lightly on one of the themes from the DTI assessment, and how it may further impact business and society.

Digital Transformation opportunities and themes 2019-03 - DTI review

Architecture Enterprise-architecture Digital-transformation Dti2019review February 01, 2022

(Originally published elsewhere in 2019) Since gaining my Togaf 9 certification (Togaf is a framework for enterprise architecture that provides an approach for designing, planning, implementing, and governing an enterprise information technology architecture) I have been consuming a large number of Open Group white papers and that led to a renewed interest in what themes are surrounding Digital Transformation in the current environment. I am particularly interested in how new and advanced technologies intersect with innovation and new business models to deliver outstanding experiences to customers.

AWS CloudFront Lambda at Edge cloudwatch logs

Architecture Cloud Amazon-web-services-aws Dns-domains-route-53 January 23, 2022

(Originally published elsewhere in 2019), Where are the AWS CloudFront Lambda@Edge logs and metrics.

AWS DNS Route 53 delegating responsibility of subdomain without migrating parent domain

Architecture Cloud Amazon-web-services-aws Dns-domains-route-53 January 23, 2022

(Originally published elsewhere in 2019) When you have a domain hosted at a register or other DNS service and want to create a subdomain hosted in Route 53 but do not want to move the parent domain then do the following.