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Jeff Scott “Context eats strategy for lunch.” This quote is typically attributed to Peter Drucker, one of the most revered management consultants and business authors of all time, whose writings made significant contributions to the foundations of today’s business corporation. Most of us know this to be true . . . yet, we often ignore it in […]
Do you want to be your company’s recognized expert in big data, business architecture, technology trends, negotiation, or just about anything else? With a little work, it isn’t all that hard to do. First, before you start What is a thought leader? We typically think of thought leaders as the small […]
Enterprise Transformation & Integration: Beyond IT/Business Alignment Accelare is collaborating with the Penn State Smeal College of Business and Gartner Inc. to produce a four-day program entitled Enterprise Transformation & Integration: Beyond IT/Business Alignment. The program covers how to apply current theory and research, leading edge industry experience, and proven best practices in order to […]
Many of my fellow business architects are incredibly excited about the value an architected approach to business design can offer. They believe in the model so strongly that the value is intuitively obvious. They believe so strongly, they expect the value to be intuitively obvious to everyone else. Unfortunately, it isn’t. Even with all the […]
The word “strategy” means different things to different people, much of which isn’t really strategy at all (see A Strategy by Any Other Name for more on this topic). But within the domain of well-defined strategy there are uniquely different strategy types. Here are three that come to mind. What strategy types do you see? […]
What is the role of the business architect? Interest in business architecture is growing dramatically. Though there is a great deal of discussion, there is little consensus about what business architecture is, how it should be pursued, and what value it delivers. There is also little consensus on who business architects are and what they do. […]
“If you do what you have always done, you’ll get what you have always gotten.” This quote is variously attributed to the self-improvement guru, Tony Robbins, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Mark Twain, and perhaps others. The fact that it is so often quoted points not to its truth but to its implication – we struggle […]
When I was a relatively new manager, I would occasionally get into disagreements with my peers. My CIO would call me into his office and tell me I should go fix the relationship. Being the good employee, I saluted and said, “Yes sir.” The third time this happened I pushed back. “Why are you always […]
Most of today’s business architecture initiatives are struggling to gain a sound footing in their organization. Part of the challenge is the immaturity of the business architecture profession and a lack of exposure in the business literature. However, architects are often part of the problem too, trying to implement the theory too explicitly. At Accelare, […]
Applying Capabilities to Business Challenges Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is driven largely by three factors. First, business leaders at all levels find capabilities an appealing and useful way to think about growing their organization’s impact. Second, capabilities are versatile, easily applied to high-level strategic […]
I am a business architect. I believe in its value and see it producing unimaginable results on a regular basis. However, I am also realistic about the challenges of starting a business architecture practice. Too many potential business architects are squandering their opportunities by not recognizing and accepting the challenges to selling the idea. They […]
I am excited about the new edition of our business architecture product, WhatFirst™. Here is the scoop. Accelare announces the general availability of WhatFirst™ 2013, the next generation of Strategy-to-Execution software on the Microsoft SharePoint 2013 platform. WhatFirst™ is designed as a planning tool to unpack strategy into executable packages of integrated work and provide […]