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Business Activity is absolutely central to how a business operates: supporting what a business does by delivering on business capability. It is imperative that the business has a real understanding of how activities are structured; what information they require; what … Continue reading →
Digital Disruption Lesson #1: Unleash the IQ of your employees. This is the first in a five part series on Digital Disruption.
What does it take to be smart? Are you born smart? Are some people just brighter than others? How can a 10-year veteran co…
If – as we’re often told – business-design is about the relationships between people, process and technology, what is it that links all of themes together? Answer: a story. Okay, yes, this is a theme I’ve explored a lot here on…
By Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group I recently wrote that I had heard and read the opinions of a number of people about what is Business Architecture, as I am sure many of us have but I wanted to understand it from the perspective of people who actually had Business Architect in … … Continue reading →
There is probably no time when there are not competing forces influencing the direction in which a business travels and how it operates. The response that a business makes to these competing influences is a measure of its maturity. When … Continue reading →
Risk-Driven Audit, Risk-Driven Design, Risk-Driven Project Management… Being “risk-driven” is expected from many functions or activities of the organization. Functions that used to be regarded as mainly “performance-driven” now have to explicitly combine performance and control. Obviously, this can be … Continue reading →
It is extremely tempting when designing the framework supporting an Enterprise Architecture to embed functionality that requires the inclusion of so much detail that it makes its application within the business nonviable. An Enterprise Architecture, when used effectively, supports the … Continue reading →
This post is the seventh in a series of ten about real life experiences of using business model thinking as a foundation for planning and delivering change. Writing this post I’ve had the help of a true friend and admirable colleague (Eva Kammerfors) whom I’ve shared many of the referred to business model experiences with. […]
Hard to add to the self explanatory picture above! Even though I am a technologist at heart, the discerning reader will surely appreciate the hogging of real estate by the word “Business”. After all, that is what it is all about.But please, please, ple…
Hard to add to the self explanatory picture above! Even though I am a technologist at heart, the discerning reader will surely appreciate the hogging of real estate by the word “Business”. After all, that is what it is all about.But please, please, ple…
Enterprise Architecture frameworks are simple in their essence, that is how a framework should be – SIMPLE !! Before you are drowned in a plethora of EA frameworks and jargon, I believe that everything good in life is generally simple and can be …
Many organizations are looking for ways to improve business agility and innovation enabled by information technology. Moreover, they are concerned about the increasing Cyber Threat, to core business systems, that comes with new technologies.The challen…