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Jeff Scott On any given week I am in a number of conversations with business leaders, business architects, or others who want to become business architects. They ask a lot of questions. And while all questions are good questions, some are better than others. Here are the two questions I get most often and what I think […]
Last week I attended the Business Architecture Innovation Summit sponsored by the Business Architecture Guild. One of the most common hallway topics was how to demonstrate value. I had a number of interesting conversations that led me to the following four business architecture value propositions: Return on investment. An ROI approach may be necessary […]
Am I kidding? Well, no. The chances are good your company really does not want a business architecture – even if you have a business architecture practice. I don’t mean that the management team has carefully examined business architecture as an approach to better business design and rejected it. Nor do I mean that […]
I get many questions about demonstrating the value of business architecture but a few weeks ago I was in a discussion with some fellow business architects who had a more specific question, “What is the value of a roadmap?” After thinking about this a while, I came to the conclusion that we often miss the […]
A couple of weeks ago, Accelare collaborated with Penn State and Gartner Research to produce a 3 ½ day executive education workshop entitled “Enterprise Transformation and Integration: Beyond IT/Business Alignment”. I taught one of the sections but I also learned a lot from the other faculty members. Last week I posted a piece entitled Four […]
A couple of weeks ago, Accelare collaborated with Penn State and Gartner Research to produce a 3 ½ day executive education workshop entitled “Enterprise Transformation and Integration: Beyond IT/Business Alignment”. One of most interesting presentations was by Al Vicere, Executive Education Professor of Strategic Leadership for The Smeal College of Business on the 21st century […]
The elusive high-performance organization I have recently turned my thinking to high performance organizations and how to create them. Though most of us have worked in good organizations (and a few bad ones along the way), few have firsthand experience of really great, high-performing organizations. They are in fact very rare creatures. We know they […]
I know many of my readers are not officially business architects and might not want to be. They simply want ideas to help them be better leaders and managers. However, I also know there is a large contingent of you who are business architects or are interested in becoming business architects as well as some […]
This survey is now closed. Information coming soon. How do you learn about business architecture? Our survey on business architecture education resources is closing on Feb 5th. All participants will receive the research report detailing our findings of what sources business architects find most valuable in learning more about their profession. For free copy […]
Today’s business architects play a variety of roles. Some are already delivering on the vision of business architecture. Others are on their way, rapidly working their way up the value contribution ladder. Still others have a smaller vision for business architecture and are happy working at a lower level of value contribution. One of the […]
“Transformation” has become a highly overused, misused, and abused term. Many organizations seem to “transform” on a regular basis. We consultants are also guilty of overusing the term, partly because it represents some of the most interesting work we do, and partly because it is the rare company that can successfully pull off transformational change […]
In previous posts, I have identified four types of contextual elements. Management: Understanding the Management Context Structural: Understanding Structural Context Cultural: Got Culture? Personal: Personal Context: The ME Factor In my 30 years of managing and consulting, I have seen some really bright, talented, driven people fail, some quite spectacularly, by ignoring or misreading their […]