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Kim Parker The terms Goals and Objectives are often used within a business interchangeably. They do however have different attributes and purposes. Scope Goals are expressed in broader terms than objectives. A Goal describes a general intention and is neither specific nor … Continue reading →
A mission statement supporting a business talks about HOW the business intends to get where it wants to be. Defining the purpose and primary objectives relating to both customer needs and team values a mission statement also addresses such questions … Continue reading →
What is a vision? It’s not as esoteric as it sounds. A vision, simply put, is a picture of what success will look like at a particular time in the future. It encompasses answers to a range of questions such … Continue reading →
It is absolutely essential, when either building a business from scratch or extending one that already exists, that a specific set of objectives be established. Supporting and aligning to a business vision and mission statement concrete goals and objectives strongly … Continue reading →
I have now published my book ‘Enterprise Architecture: unlocking business potential’. This publication came about more by accident than design having being encouraged to take the more or less numerous random entries I had made in ‘The Knowledge Economy’ blog … Continue reading →
Intellectual Capital within a business is an asset that should be enhanced whenever possible. Frequently, when undertaking activities that lead to increased capability, improved business processes or perhaps more efficient operations and where external resources are utilised, the opportunity of … Continue reading →
All businesses, ranging from the ‘one man show’ through to multinationals and governments, can succeed or fail on the back of the decisions that they are constantly on call to deliver. The quality of the decisions that are made has … Continue reading →
Business driven Agile development is achieved by Breaking tasks into small increments; Applying only the minimum of planning. Iterating over short time frames (timeboxes). Involving a cross functional team working in all Software Development LifeCycle functions. At the conclusion of … Continue reading →
Many members of a business community with access to an Enterprise Architecture see it as an overhead that ‘gets in the way’ of them ‘doing their job. As an overhead it is seen as something apart from their ‘Business As … Continue reading →
To succeed, a business needs to transition its goals into beneficial outcomes. Goals, in being realised, need to be supported by business capability which describes what a business is able to do and services which leverage combined capabilities to define … Continue reading →
A Business will often decide that they ‘need’ to undertake certain activities so as to solve particular problems that they perceive themselves as having. Once these activities have been completed and the ‘problems’ solved the business expects to reap the … Continue reading →
Indecision in selecting which of a number of options is the best one to throw at a business problem or situation which demands a response can be rife when insufficient information is available to the person responsible for its making. … Continue reading →