Posts by: Jeff Scott

Webinar: The Strategy to Execution Process

Jim Champy and Jack Calhoun will introduce the latest work Accelare is doing with clients to advance the development and practice of the Strategy to Execution Process. This free webinar is sponsored by Accelare and is open for anyone to attend. You…

Tactical Thinking – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Tactical thinking is characterized by making in-the-moment decisions without regard to the overall strategic plan. Most often, this occurs because demands of the day overwhelm the needs of the future requiring a temporary shift in prioritization. This happens in every organization on…

Five Attributes of Strategic Thinkers

In today’s agile, fast-twitch, act-fail-iterate environment, strategic thinking often gets a bad name. One entrepreneur friend of mine told me: “Strategic thinking is just an excuse to slack off.” If you are an internet startup, have  little revenue, and no profits, then…

Webinar: Selling Business Architecture

I will be presenting a webinar on Tuesday, June 4th and again on Thursday June 6th on the topic of selling business architecture. This free webinar is sponsored by Accelare and is open for anyone to attend. You can register here:  …

Strategy and Tactics – Two Sides of the Same Coin

Mike correctly pointed out in his comment to my last post, Strategy By Any Other Name, that I didn’t address the difference between strategy and tactics. Well let’s take a look now. First, I think there are really two questions here. One…

A Strategy by Any Other Name

What is strategy? That question pops up a lot and everyone seems to have an answer. Just not the same answer. However, one thing is clear. Most people and I mean truly smart people often get strategy wrong. So wrong in fact…

Five Essential Capabilities Every Organization Should Have

One of the biggest challenges in building capability models is getting people to move from functional thinking (the things we do) to capability thinking (the ability we have to do things). The reason this is so difficult is that organizations generally create…

Ten Predictions for Business Architecture in 2020

Architects of all types like to peer into the future and I am no different. When my Forrester colleague, Gordon Barnett, mentioned he was working on a new report on the state of business architecture in 2020, I thought it was time…

Capabilities Demystified – Part 3

Assessing Business Capabilities Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is largely driven by three factors. First, business leaders at all levels find capabilities an appealing and useful way to think about growing their…

Why YOU Need a Business Architecture

I just returned from the OMG/BA Guild Business Architecture Innovation Summit where there was a lot of discussion on the subject of business architecture value. No one had a good answer for either creating a business case or measuring value delivered. This…

Capabilities Demystified – Part 2

Constructing Business Capabilities Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is largely driven by three factors. First, business leaders at all levels find capabilities an appealing and useful way to think about growing their…

Capabilities Demystified – Part 1

Defining Business Capabilities Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is largely driven by three factors. First, business leaders at all levels find capabilities an appealing and useful way to think about growing their…
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