Business Architecture

1 year, 8 months ago

Business Architecture Grid

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In some of my posts, I have used the terms vertical and horizontal in relation to Business Architecture. The purpose of this post is to analyse what these terms actually mean.Firstly, the word vertical is often associated with value chain thinking. Typ…

1 year, 11 months ago

Architecture is theory

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Those who denigrate architecture as ‘only theory’ are seriously missing the point, because the role of architecture is theory – theory to guide the practice of design. Without theory to guide practice, all that we’d have is design that’s built on untested …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Architecture basics: The structure of a task

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What’s the structure of a task? What do we need in a task to make sure that we do the right things right? It’s worth thinking about this in architectural terms – in terms of that tagline for enterprise effectiveness, …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Enterprise-architecture: Clawing our way out of limbo

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A year ago, I was at Heathrow, boarding a flight to Australia. My long years of eldercare had at last come to an end: it was time for a restart. It was a good plan. I’d worked on it for …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Assessing and Improving Your Change Capabilities with the BiZZdesign Maturity Model

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The 2020 BiZZdesign Connect Conference has concluded and we’re happy to say it was a tremendous success! Our theme and proposition for you this year was Designing Better Enterprises, and apparently the rest of the world found it really relevant. So man…

2 years, 3 months ago

Rethinking RACI

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Probably everyone knows the RACI responsibility-matrix – Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed. But what does it mean, in practice? For some years now I’ve been using a simple organisation-relative way to describe the organisation’s relationships with the broader shared-enterprise: organisation: the organisation itself, …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Sell this to your boss: Enablement Architecture

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The 2020 BiZZdesign Connect Conference has concluded and we’re happy to say it was a tremendous success! Our theme and proposition for you this year was Designing Better Enterprises, and apparently the rest of the world found it really relevant. So man…