Posts Tagged "business"

Types of Cost

When planning and measuring business benefits there are three basic contributing elements: revenues, costs and intangibles. If you look for guidance on “types of cost” most sources decompose cost types in accounting terms like those shown in the very good extract from…

Tom Graves – The Business of the Business

An article by Tom Graves defining the scope of “business” every organisation is also ‘a business’ the business of an organisation is whatever the organisation does, for whatever business-reasons and business-drivers every organisation has a business-architecture that describes the structure and story…

Enterprise Architecture Benefits

Author: Alex Matthews – Twitter: @remembermytweet Here is a free, un-formatted slide deck that describes some of the key benefits that can be gained from applying Enterprise Architecture. It can be freely distributed and used with or without attribution to Alex Matthews…

Top 10 Tips for Data Warehouse Developers

I’ve been reading some excellent material lately about the perilous task of building data warehouse capability. It cause me to reflect on my own learning from running large enterprise data warehouse, business intelligence and advanced analytics projects. So I have thrown together…

The Future of Money

Alternative Forms of Currency Alternative forms of currency have existed for a long time. Frequent flyer miles are transformable forms of value, they can be exchanged for goods and services. Loyalty card points are also transformable forms of value, they can be…

A week in Tweets: 26 December 2010 – 01 January 2011

Managing to keep up to date at present, so here’s the list of Tweets and links for the week (and year) just past. Usual categories, of course. Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business strategy and suchlike: tetradian: [post] Where is the information when we need…

A kind of change-of-year review

Yes, it’s that time of year again, when it’s worthwhile reflecting on the old adage that we overestimate what we can do in a week, or a month, but underestimate what we can do in a whole year. Right now I’m in…

Jeanne W. Ross on Enterprise Architecture Webcast

Jeanne Ross author of the very popular book among Enterprise Architects, Enterprise Architecture as Strategy  just released a webcast today that is interesting. If you have access to this resource it is worth a watch. Link: http://ow.ly/3vDBl   Technorati Tags: EA,Enterprise Architecture,MIT,CISR,CIO,Strategy,Business

A week in Tweets: 19-25 December 2010

A somewhat smaller collection of Tweets and links this time – mainly because people are heading off into their various holiday-seasons, I guess. Same categories as usual, though, preceded by the usual ‘Read more…’ link. Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and similar business…
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