It's no secret that Artificial Intelligence is here to stay and will continue to play an important and impactful role within the Enterprise Architecture space. This year's first guest is David Strickrodt, one of Bizzdesign's solution advisors and member of our AI task force team. David shares his insights on where he sees the trend of AI going this…

We've compiled the best 3 clips from our top downloaded episodes of 2023. The episodes include the fireside chat around The State of Enterprise Architecture from our annual BD Connect conference, Humanizing Enterprise Architecture with Dave Armes from Servicenow, and how to set up a successful Enterprise Architecture practice with Dan Warfield. If …

Today’s episode features a recording from our annual global event, BD Connect. This recording was taken from our 2023 edition featuring Matthjis Scholten entitled How to Build Better Workflows for Enterprise and Solution Architects. If you’re more of a visual learner, we do have an on-demand version of Matthjis’ presentation avialble on our website…

Eddie Walker, founder of Edifit which was recently acquired by Bizzdesign, shares his journey of growing a company along with his approach to Enterprise Architecture in which he calls the "Karate Kid Approach". Read the Edifit acquisition press release on our blog. Have an idea for our show? Email us at podcast@bizzdesign.com Explore Bizzdesign mor…

Mary Stevens is the Technology Architect for Technology Services at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In this episode, she'll walk us through how she approaches getting "buy-in" from leaders and stakeholders. While this episode is focused on the Higher Education space, the challenges and takeaways are applicable across all industries. Ha…

Aaron Tan, the group CEO of ATD Solution in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong and the Chairman of Iasa APAC, joins our Enterprise Architecture podcast to talk through the past, present and future of Enterprise Architecture. Have an idea for our show? Email us at podcast@bizzdesign.com Explore Bizzdesign more: Visit our website: Bizzdesi…

Episode Guest: Dan Warfield - Managing Director of CC&C Europe and Ajar Group Limited. Dan's IT leadership career spans more than 35 years, with senior roles in R&D, strategic planning, enterprise architecture, software product marketing and IT governance for Fortune 100 organizations including Lincoln Financial, Walmart, IBM and DXC. Dan has seen …

Bringing over 20 years of experience to the table, our very own Dan Belville joins us on our latest Enterprise Architecture podcast to discuss the challenges facing Enterprise Architects. Aside from the common challenges such as complexity, alignment, change management and more, Dan breaks down the biggest challenge facing Enterprise Architects, wh…

Hey there, and welcome to another episode of the Enterprise Architecture podcast produced by Bizzdesign. I’m Will Hardison, one of Bizzdesign’s marketing managers and if my recording sounds a little different than normal, well that’s because I’m sitting in my hotel room at Ceasars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada gearing up for Day 2 of the Gartner Appl…

Dave is the Area VP of Enterprise Architecture EMEA at ServiceNow. During his presentation, Dave focuses on “humanizing enterprise architecture” – staying mentally healthy, keeping in mind that humans use the systems we design, and embracing change. At ServiceNow they actually use the acronym LEAP which stands for “lean enterprise architecture for …

In this episode, I chat with Matthijs Scholten, otherwise known as the architect kid. He is the product and innovation manager at Bizzdesign and is responsible for Bizzdesign’s innovation portfolio, product vision, strategy, roadmap and product development. I hope you enjoy my conversation with the architect kid. Visit our website: Bizzdesign.com R…

Before we launch into 2023, I thought it would be a great idea to listen in on a few of our top podcasts from 2022. We’ll hear from Eddie Walker from Edifit on his top 10 tips for successful Enterprise Architecture, next we’ll listen in on a conversation between our Chief Strategy Officer Nick Reed and the President and Founder of Intellyx, Jason B…

In this episode, we speak to Mike O’Dell. Mike is president of XpertMinds and has previously held a number of full-time and fractional CIO positions across a range of industries. Mike gives us his insight on how enterprise architecture teams can best go about aligning themselves to the mission of the CIO.…

In this episode, we speak to Sunil Rananavere. Sunil is the Director of Digital Business & Technology Consulting at Cognizant, the global IT services and consulting firm, he is also a very seasoned enterprise architect. We cover a number of areas and specifically talk about Sunil's observations on the key mistakes that EA teams can make - and his r…

In this episode we speak to Simon Cross. Simon is a seasoned enterprise and security architect who previously held senior positions with organizations such as NatWest Banking Group, Lloyds Bangs Group, BAE Systems, and Hewlett Packard. Simon is now Head of Security Solutions here at Bizzdesign and today he introduces the initiative he leads here - …

In this interview, we speak with Dr. Michelle Supper, a senior advisory executive architect at Service Now. In this role, Michelle consults with a wide range of enterprises and their enterprise architecture practices to help them with their digital transformations. In this session, Michelle draws on her wealth of experience and gives her insights o…

In this session, we speak to somewhat of a legend in the Business Architecture community - Roger Burlton. Roger is President of the Process Renewal Group, and longtime chair of numerous industry conferences including Business Business Capability and IRM UK. He is also an accomplished author on the subject of business architecture and has recently p…

An interview with the legendary Sam Holcman and how he started his EA career and worked with the equally legendary John Zachman. Sam talks about the educational courses that the EACOE runs for EAs that go beyond the technical aspects of EA into the key skills EAs need to have to communicate and do their job in the enterprise.…

We speak to David Trafford, founder of Forimicio Ltd. David is an advisor, coach, mentor, and consultant on strategy and change to enterprises worldwide and a co-author of the great book - Beyond Default. In this session we talk about how enterprises can take a fresh look at how they formate strategy by thinking about strategy in the context of the…

In this session, we talk all about the need for enterprises to be customer-driven. We speak to Milan Guenther, President of the Intersection Group, and Jim Kalbach, Chief Evangelist at Mural. We talk about not only the importance of enterprises being customer-driven but how they can practically go about organizationally and architecturally achievin…

In this session, we speak with Morten Bjerregaard, and Thomas Rhode, both in the EA center of Excellence at Danske Bank, the largest bank in Denmark and a major retail bank in northern European. Danske bank was the Collaboration Winner of the 2021 BiZZdesign Change by Design Awards and in this session, we talk to Morten and Thomas all about the col…

In this session, we speak to Gin Wong Deputy Director of Technology Architecture and Policy at Singapore Pools (Private) Limited. Gin and her team won the 2021 BiZZdesign Change by Design Award for Innovation and we discuss how the Enterprise Architecture practice supports Singapore pools in accelerating and making better-informed business transfor…

In this session in we speak to Mahesh Kaka, Mahesh is Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture at General Dynamics IT (GDIT), we discuss how EA is positioned and seen within GDIT as an enabler rather than a rule enforcer. Mahesh talks about how he implemented a common ArchiMate and TOGAF based language within the EA team and how his team transiti…

In this podcast, we will be listening to the audio from a recent webinar with Nick Reed, Chief Strategy offices at Bizzdesign, and Jason Bloomberg from President and Found of the analysts firm Intellyx. Jason is a leading author, keynote speaker, and globally recognized expert in enterprise technology and digital transformation. In this session, Ni…

In this session, we talk to Peter Matthijssen, Chief Product Officer at BiZZdesign. Peter gives us a sneak peek into the major development areas of the BiZZdesign HoriZZon platform and also talks about how he and his team gather requirements from a variety of sources to inform BiZZdesign’s near and long term roadmap.…

In this episode, we speak with Eddie Walker. With Edifit, a provider of consultancy, support and training services for enterprise architecture teams, Eddie has a deep and rich background in enterprise architecture, working with teams and companies all over the world. Eddie will takes us over his top 10 tips for Enterprise Architecture success based…

In this episode we speak to Matthijs Scholten, Matthijs is the Product and Innovation Manager at BiZZdesign and we speak all about the Enterprise Architecture Data Ecosystem and the best practices for EA teams looking to harvest data from other adjacent systems of records such as CMDBs, PPMs and Issue management ad product development systems such …

In this episode, I speak to Mark Peters. Mark is Product Success Manager at BiZZdesign - and we talk about how BiZZdesign goes about conceiving, testing and building, with the HoriZZon platform, visualizations that are designed to deliver impactful messages and insights beyond the Enterprise Architecture department to the business and executive sta…

In this session, we will be talking to Regine and John at Auckland Transport about how EA is having an impact on the organization. Specifically, we talk about How the team breaks down the organization into 8 domains How the team collaborates to understand the goals and outcomes of the business and aligning transformation to meet those goals How to …

In this episode we speak to Angel Alonso, Team Lead for the GRC practice at Mnemonic and Nick Reed, Chief Strategy Officer for BiZZdesign. We talk about Enterprise Architectures Role within Cybersecurity for the Enterprise and how it is ideally placed to help enterprises assess and mitigate the technology risks that it faces. The Enterprise Securit…

In this episode, we will be speaking to Martijn van Glabbeek from Alliander and Joe Geary from BiZZdesign. We will be talking about how business capability maps can be developed and then used in the enterprise to create a "Rosetta" sone for IT and the Business to communicate better and identify investment and risk priorities.…

In this episode, we are joined by Milan Guenther, Co-Author of Enterprise Design Patterns and President at Intersection Group, and Marc Lankhorst, Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign. We discuss the emerging trend of increasingly blurred organizational boundaries between supply chain, partners and the customers, and the overall enterprise eco…

In this episode, we interview Chris Dalby, Continuous Improvement Lead at MS Amlin. Chris has deep and rich tenure in the areas of Operational Excellence and regulatory compliance in the financial services space. In this podcast, Chris talks us through how his group is leveraging the power of Enterprise Architecture to develop the process and tools…

In this episode, we speak to Sian Van Es, Senior Enterprise Architect at CGI. CGI is one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. Sian tells us of her insights in not only working internally with CGI - but with CGIs clients as will. Sian also gives some fascinating insight and tops tips for how EA can successfully oper…

In this episode, we speak to Ian Anderson at Ellucian. Ian has deep experience in Enterprise Architecture in the Higher Education space and begins by drawing the parallels between Higher Ed and Enterprises - noting that both are businesses and in that respect very similar in how they operate - the only difference being that Higher Ed talks about Fa…

In this podcast, we speak to Cameron Spence at Thames Water. Cameron speaks about a range of issues, from implementing an application management system at Thames Water to the need for EAs to be able to translate all the different languages in the business to how to crystalize the value of EA to the non-EA executive in the organization.…

In this interview we speak to Marc Lankhorst, Marc is Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign. In this role he works with EA teams all over the world. In this interview, Marc talks about how EA teams can position themselves with the C-Suite - and how to talk about what they do in a manner that resonates and demonstrates value to the Non EA Busine…

In this episode, I speak to Joe Geary, VP of Customer Success at BiZZdesign. Joe has over 30 years of experience as a true IT and EA practitioner. Today his focus is working with EA teams, large and small, mature and just starting, in a range of industries - helping them identify how to drive value, early and often, to their organizations.…

In this episode we will be talking to Jeremy Viner from the Royal Bank of Scotland, Jeremy takes us through a journey of change at the bank, retiring legacy systems and replacing with new standards, process and tools to increase the impact of EA at the bank. But we don't just talk software, instead Jeremy talks us through the change process he unde…

In this podcast, we speak to Nick Chodarow, CIO at Arctic Glacier. Arctic Glacier is North America's leading manufacturer and direct-to-store distributor (DSD) of premium quality packaged ice, ice equipment, and related services. We talk about how the COVID 19 pandemic has effected Arctic Glacier and how they looked at the right technologies to sup…

Alko is the national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly in Finland. It is the only store in the country which retails beer over 5.5% ABV, wine, and spirits. In this episode, we speak to AJ Kangas about how the pandemic affected its retail operations in Finland.By BiZZdesign

In this podcast we speak to Claus Jensen, Enterprise Architect at Novozymes. Novozymes is a global biotechnology company headquartered in Denmark and focuses on the research, development, and production of industrial enzymes, microorganisms, and biopharmaceutical ingredients. We begin talking about how the COVID 19 pandemic has effected Novozymes a…

In this podcast, I speak to Kishore Koduri, Director of EA and Resiliency at Ameren. Ameren is a Fortune 500 American power company serving Illinois and Missouri. Kishore talks about how Ameren's resiliency plans were activated and pressure tested in the face of the pandemic. He goes on to talk about how the role of EA will change as a result of th…

In this podcast, I speak to Kunal Das, Chief Architect at SouthState bank. Specifically, we discuss the bank's response to the COVID 19 pandemic and Kunals views on how he sees this event transforming how we go to work and how customers interact with the bank going forward. If you would like to be featured on the show - contact us at podcast@bizzde…

In this episode, we will be speaking to Kirk Keller, Director of Enterprise Strategy and Architecture at the University of Missouri and how the Coronavirus pandemic has affected and accelerated the universities' digital transformation. About the podcast: In these podcasts each week will be talking to leaders in the area of enterprise architecture a…