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Jeff Scott I spent the majority of my corporate career leading areas like innovation, architecture, strategy, and merger integration that required influencing those who didn’t directly work for me. I didn’t get much education in this area. For the most part, I learned how to influence others through trial and error. Though to be honest, it was […]
Jim Champy and Jack Calhoun will introduce the latest work Accelare is doing with clients to advance the development and practice of the Strategy to Execution Process. This free webinar is sponsored by Accelare and is open for anyone to attend. You can register here: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 – 10:00AM EDT or Tuesday, […]
Tactical thinking is characterized by making in-the-moment decisions without regard to the overall strategic plan. Most often, this occurs because demands of the day overwhelm the needs of the future requiring a temporary shift in prioritization. This happens in every organization on a daily basis. The key word here is “temporary”. A critical success factor […]
In today’s agile, fast-twitch, act-fail-iterate environment, strategic thinking often gets a bad name. One entrepreneur friend of mine told me: “Strategic thinking is just an excuse to slack off.” If you are an internet startup, have little revenue, and no profits, then keep iterating through tactical options until you succeed – or fail. For the […]
I will be presenting a webinar on Tuesday, June 4th and again on Thursday June 6th on the topic of selling business architecture. This free webinar is sponsored by Accelare and is open for anyone to attend. You can register here: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 – 11:00AM EDT or Thursday, June 6, 2013 – […]
Mike correctly pointed out in his comment to my last post, Strategy By Any Other Name, that I didn’t address the difference between strategy and tactics. Well let’s take a look now. First, I think there are really two questions here. One is “What is the difference between strategy and tactics.” and the other is […]
What is strategy? That question pops up a lot and everyone seems to have an answer. Just not the same answer. However, one thing is clear. Most people and I mean truly smart people often get strategy wrong. So wrong in fact that that many executives give up on strategy altogether. I once was in […]
One of the biggest challenges in building capability models is getting people to move from functional thinking (the things we do) to capability thinking (the ability we have to do things). The reason this is so difficult is that organizations generally create organizational functions around capabilities so they often look very similar. For example, most […]
Architects of all types like to peer into the future and I am no different. When my Forrester colleague, Gordon Barnett, mentioned he was working on a new report on the state of business architecture in 2020, I thought it was time for me to look into my business architecture crystal ball. For the record, […]
Assessing Business Capabilities Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is largely driven 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 activities […]
I just returned from the OMG/BA Guild Business Architecture Innovation Summit where there was a lot of discussion on the subject of business architecture value. No one had a good answer for either creating a business case or measuring value delivered. This is a challenging topic for a new profession where methods are not standardized, […]
Constructing Business Capabilities Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is largely driven 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 activities […]