10 rules and guidelines for Application Rationalization with Dragon1

Anyone can save money with Application Rationalization

Often when cutting budgets someone yells: Well can’t do we something with Application Rationalization? Do we really need all those applications? And that’s when Application Rationalization starts.

Why create your own list with rules and guidelines for Application Rationalization

Here are ten rules for Application Rationalization derived from design principles which I have collected during the past 20 years, when I have been busy with one thing called: application.
Next to these 10 rules and guidelines I work with a list of 100 rules and guidelines and an approach of Application Rationalization in the open Dragon1 EA Method. And I urge you to do the same, document the rules and guidelines for your own use!
Of course there is more to Application Rationalization than these 10 rules and guidelines, but it is a fresh start and with what I have seen in practice always one or more of these ten rules and guidelines are overlooked. So, see this as your own Application Rationalization Cheat list.

What is Application Rationalization?

Application Rationalization is an organization's strategic process...

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Enterprise Architecture is about CxOs making the enterprise future proof

Following up a discussion I had with several lead enterprise architects, in this blog I am trying to put down in a condensed way what Enterprise Architecture is about  and thus why in my opinion Enterprise Architecture is worth the effort to cope with tomorrow’s challenges.

Enterprises like buildings can be viewed as structures

A building can be considered as a multi system with constructive, operative and decorative dimensions. This multi system of a building we call a building structure or structure.
Likewise we can view an enterprise or organization as a structure: An enterprise has also a constructive dimension (formed by the application of concepts like departments and units), operative dimensions (formed by the application of concepts like procurement and production) and decorative dimensions (formed by the application of concepts like image building, media campaign and data-hiding).

The question for CxOs (the Owners/Clients) and architects (the Designers) is: Is the structure ...

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Invest in XL Sports Camper Vehicles now! – An Example Vision

An Example Vision

What's the use of a blog on vision without a clear example of a vision? I'm emphasizing this is just an example vision!

Suppose I am the chief of a car rental company in The Netherlands. And I just have been on a camper holiday to Australia. Back in Europe I see more and more elderly people selling their homes and buying a camper. In the professional literature it is all sorrow and misery in the car rental business. And what I see in travel guides is that a lot of camping sites are still focused on young families with backpack tents.

Sitting back in a rocking chair with some vintage wine I am thinking how the future of Europe, traveling and my company will be like in 2020. I am desperately trying to find something to make sure my company will still exist or will be necessary in the future. Or else ...

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