Hi, I'm Damian Hickey, the founder of Orthogramic. I've been designing businesses for a long time. I'd become extremely frustrated with business architecture but could not articulate why. I decided to do short term business and solution architecture contracts and seeing a range of business really struggling with their business architecture got me thinking about a better way. At that time I had not talked to many other business architects and did not understand how paralysed most feel (including myself at the time) are and how they and their organizations have built a whole language of justification around their lack of effectiveness.
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I was doing a contract helping set up a business architecture practice at Worksafe Victoriafor a client. Due to a change of legislation requiring urgent organizational reform, the stakeholders I was to interview became unavailable. I decided to see if it was possible to parse documents to gain business architecture insights.
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So I started to experiment with automations and hunting for that elusive goal of a real-time holistic business architecture.
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We have come a long way and very quickly. It's clear there is a better way than BIZBOK and TOGAF's inclusion of business architecture. I will always be grateful to the team at Worksafe Victoria for letting me experiment with the use of this approach. So this is why Worksafe Victoria is the default organization in Orthogramic Insights.
Moving forward together
As fellow BIZBOK oriented architects, we understand the foundations—but we must acknowledge that today's businesses move too quickly for methodologies designed for a slower era.
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