One Picture For All: Visualising Business-Technology Strategy

In the process of developing a Business-Technology Strategy, I wanted to create Gamestorming-like approach to help position business drivers, technology trends and IT responses. I've been reading 'The Agile Architecture Revolution' by Jason Bloomberg (highly recommended!) - I particularly was inspired by the…

Business Benefit – It’s not just about the money!

Business benefit can be manifest in many different ways. Whilst easy to equate benefit with profit and loss, there are other measures that can and should be applied. An unreasoned over-emphasis on finances can be detrimental. For many organisations the financial imperative,…

The Business Model Canvas: Know Thy Business

As Enterprise Architects we drive to maximize value in our companies. With most EA teams residing within an IT area under a CIO we can find ourselves bogged down by the technology weighing down on decisions. The challenge with that is one…

Optimising the Business.

In a business that has not established an Enterprise Architecture it is likely that, in spite of best efforts, there is an unacceptable degree of fragmentation and duplication existing that may result in waste, increased costs and increased time to execute.  All…

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…

The New Normal

Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux  Recently technology entrepreneur, lecturer and author Peter Hinssen delivered a keynote address at our annual worldwide conference. The premise of Mr. Hinssen’s presentation was based on his observation that we are beginning to embark on a new…

Driving towards simplicity!

All businesses have a degree of complexity inherent within them that needs to be managed. Business activities that are undertaken and the systems used to support them have multi-facetted interdependencies that may results in, even with a single change, cascading consequential effects…

Context Mapping, by Example

I will demonstrate a technique for Context Mapping that leverages David Sibbet/The Grove’s work on Context Maps. We will build up the map incrementally, using the comments on this post to gather input to the Context Map which I will create iteratively…

Strategy – Shaping the Business

Business Strategy is about the initiating of actions designed to attain one or more of the goals of the business. The strategy can be defined as: ‘A general direction set for the business and its various components to achieve a desired state…
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