Google’s about effective teams and the manager’s role
The ideal “One for All” team model looks more like “All for One” in real life.
Enterprise Architecture Development Matters
Google’s surprising discovery about effective teams is not so surprising (i)
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Google’s surprising discovery about effective teams
2. Dependability
“Team members get things done and meet Google high bar for technical excellence”
This “Google high bar for technical excellence” sounds a tad patroni
Google’s surprising discovery about effective teams is not so surprising
Here is the Google’s surprising discovery about effective teams. But Google has done extensive research too into the skills and character traits of a good manager. Let’s digest these findings.
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The Return on Business Architecture, (iv)
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But what are the key factors that help us estimate an architecture ROI? To evaluate ROI we need to assess the Costs and Benefits of the endeavour which depend on the EA development progress and its utilisation.
EA is a continuou…
The Return on Business Architecture, cnt’d (iii)
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Since ROI factors change in practice for each endeavour, the outcomes differ widely from project to project. Because of that, ROIs are hardly credible.
To confer them some trustworthiness we need to have a repeatable …
The Return on Business Architecture (ii)
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EA though, not only returns its own operational ROI, but may increase the ROI of any subsequent transformation, as long as it is maintained.
Typically, an enterprise transformation realises a business strategy. But a trans…
The Return on Business Architecture (i)
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It is only in the context of the wider Enterprise Architecture (EA), rather than that of Business Architecture, that we can properly evaluate the architecture ROI, since we need to determine the physical resources, availabl…
The Return on Business Architecture
In “What’s the ROI on Your Business Architecture Practice?” Daniel Lambert of IRIS stated that “for a while now for some kind of business case about Return on Investment (“ROI”) on Business Architecture and I have…
The Business Model represented as an Enterprise Architecture view
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A Business Model expressed as a Value Chain would show the sequence of high level processes that add to the margin and accumulate cost at each stage of the chain.
Two different Business Models for the same type …
The Business Model expressed as a Value Chain
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While a Business Model (BM) identifies the way a company (activities, resources, channels, partnerships… as described in the BM canvas) returns value/profit while delivering the product, the Value Chain identifies the company s…
The Business Model as a Value Chain
In the 1980s, Michael Porter proposed the Value Chain (VC) concept to illustrate the operation of a company.
A Value Chain is a set of activities that an organization carries out to deliver value to its customers and…
The Constitution of the Enterprise
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Values not practiced just pull the wool over the eyes of our stakeholders.
To make the Values happen, we should cascade them hierarchically, top down, from conceptual to practical, to Policies and Procedures. As a …