Edzo Botjes

Open University of the Netherlands | OU · Department of Information Science

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) becomes more important and non-evident when confronted with the growth of complexity. The evolvability of the EAI solution itself decreases over time due to Lehman's law. This case report describes and evaluates the architecture (model and principles), governance, solution design, and realisation, which are...

This whitepaper describes part of our vision we call Sensemaking Architecture. A vision that is based on our understanding as experienced enterprise architects about sensing and perception, managing complexity, applying ethical thinking. In this paper we add to this vision a way to translate the purpose of an organisation to a way of working for en...

The current VUCA worlds demands from organisations to be resilient and sometimes even antifragile. The domain focusing on staying relevant is that of risk management. Information security is a sub-domain of risk management where the threats and response to the threats are very well documented. Within the sub-domain of information security there is...

Organizations operate in a socioeconomic context, and alignment with this context is key for business success. The rate of change and impact of these changes on the operating model of the organization appears to be increasing. Major trends are the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, the "VUCA" aspects (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, am...

The .com crisis of 2000, the financial crisis of 2008 and the COVID-19 crisis of 2020 show us the importance for organisations to become resilient or even antifragile to survive (unexpected) external stressors. Research states that the current VUCA world will expose enterprises to more and more stressors. Resilience is the way how a system bounces...