Posts by: Jeff Scott

Will The Real Business Architect Please Stand Up?

  I will be presenting a webinar at noon EST September 25th on the role of the business architect. This free webinar is sponsored by IASA (The International Association of Software Architects) and is open for anyone to attend. You can register…

Creating a Powerful Vision

Organizations with a strong inspiring vision of who they want to become have higher levels of performance than purely goal-based organizations. If you aren’t sure you need to create a vision statement for you organization, go back and read “Why Most Organizations…

Why Most Organizations Have Weak Visions

We do a lot of strategy work with organizations big and small. It is very curious to me that few organizations create strong vision statements. A powerful vision statement clarifies management’s aspirations. It sets broad direction and inspires people to go beyond…

Five Steps To Becoming A Better Business Architect

If you are an established business architect you are most likely already doing most of these items. But if you are new to business architecture or are coming from IT or other operationally focused organizations, you should give each of these steps…

THE FIVE “Vs” OF LEADERSHIP

There are lots of models around describing leadership characteristics and roles. Here is one I have been using for a number of years to introduce the role of the leader. While not a complete model, it does get across some of the…

What Do Business Architects Do?

 NOTE: When I refer to “Business Architects” here, I am referring to anyone playing the role of the business architect. This could be business managers, enterprise architects, business analysts, strategists, etc. We don’t need the title of business architect to be one.…

IRM EA/BPM Conference Delivers

Last week I presented a keynote (“The Strategy to Execution Process”) at the London IRM EA/BPM conference. There were so many good ideas and new perspectives that after three days I thought my head would explode.   A melting pot of ideas –…

Six Attributes of a Powerful Business Architecture Practice

Business architecture is still new enough that highly successful practices are difficult to find. Most organizations are struggling to get off the ground and gain traction. However, we can learn a lot from the currently successful trail blazers. Powerful business architecture practices…

What Business Architecture Isn’t

There is a lot of effort going into creating, and arguing about, the definition of business architecture. This seems to me to be wasted energy as most efforts are focused on creating an accurate definition rather than a meaningful one. And, well,…

Not All Innovation Is BIG Innovation

A comment to last week’s post, “You call that innovation?” got me thinking about why most companies do so little innovating. Mark wrote:   On point 7 – Doing things that can’t be done. This is the realm of great innovation. This…
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