ACROSS & AHEAD - Key Persons
Daniel Simon is the Founder and Man aging Director of ACROSS & AHEAD. His passion is to guide enter prises on their business design and trans for mation journeys. He has extensive experience in estab lishing archi tecture practices, developing archi tecture blueprints (e.g., capability maps), and facilitating business design and transformation activities.
Daniel is also a long-time trainer in the field. He has delivered business archi tecture (based on, e.g., the BIZBOK® Guide) and enterprise architecture courses (e.g., on ArchiMate® and TOGAF®) to more than one thousand delegates to date (approx. 150 courses with more than 350 training days). He holds several certifications. Among others, he is a Certified Business Architect® and an ArchiMate® Practitioner.
Daniel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne. He is the (co-)author of several publications on enterprise and business archi tecture, including, e.g., "IT Land scape Management Using Network Analysis" (CONFENIS, 2012), "The Nature and a Process for Develop ment of Enterprise Archi tecture Principles" (BIS Conference, 2015), and "Enter prise Archi tecture Manage ment and its Role in Cor porate Strategic Management" (Information Systems and e-Business Management, 2013).
The aforementioned journal article introduced a framework that Daniel developed to embrace business archi tecture in a comprehensive way, across three fundamental parts: business motivation, business model, and business execution. This framework served as the basis for the anthology "Business Archi tecture Management - Architecting the Business for Consis tency and Alignment" (Springer, 2015) that Daniel as the lead editor managed to take to publication.
Daniel also regularly speaks at confer ences and events. Past talks include "Making Architecture Stick" (IRM UK Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Conference, London, 2023), "Translating Strategy into Execution Using Business Architecture" (Enterprise Architecture Summer School, Copen hagen, 2023), "ArchiMate® Applied - Insights from Real-Life Cases" (The Open Group Conference, London, 2016), "EA Principles: Guide Rails or Laws? An Insurance Industry Case Study" (The Open Group Con ference, London, 2013), and "Business Architecture - The Trans formation Cockpit for the Enter prise" (The Open Group Conference, Stockholm, 2010).
Daniel is also host of the "Business Architecture Meets Sustainability" webinar series and organizer of a business architecture roundtable event series in Germany.
In addition to that, Daniel is a lecturer at the University of Bamberg. He is respon sible for the enterprise architecture management module in the information systems degree program.