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Towards Measuring Success of Enterprise Architecture Decisions: Survey among Practitioners…
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The ability to flesh out an idea and its potential efficient realisation is absolutely vital for a vibrant, growing and evolving business. Ideas rarely spring up fully formed and many may never see the light of day. The business should … Continue reading →
When exploring multiple new opportunities, it is common business practice to ‘pick the low hanging fruit’, or, identify the ‘quick wins’. Whilst it is easy to rationalise that these will benefit the business and provide a faster return on investment, … Continue reading →
Having an established set of Business Values is crucial to keeping an organisation focused on how it is going to achieve what has been defined in its goals and objectives. Adherence to Business Values will strongly influence the behaviour 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 →
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 →
With any initiative that is offered for consideration, within a business, for inclusion within a program of work it is very easy to oversell the benefits that it can deliver and the ‘ease by which it may be accomplished. Often, … Continue reading →
Business benefit can be manifest in many different ways. Whilst easy to equate benefit with profit and loss, there are other measures that can and should be applied. An unreasoned over-emphasis on finances can be detrimental. For many organisations the … Continue reading →
An Enterprise Architecture, by the time is becomes useful to the business, has consumed considerable time and effort to develop and populate. Often the principle deliverable of an Enterprise Architecture specific or Transformation Project the transition to a ‘Business As … Continue reading →
When establishing a business architecture all of its components must be taken into consideration. Whilst it may be tempting to ignore technology as being out of scope (by saying it will be covered within a Technical Architecture) it is absolutely … Continue reading →
A complete Enterprise Architecture that effectively supports the business cannot be purchased as a fully realisable off-the-shelf commodity. This statement should of course be qualified by at least considering the possibility of acquiring a hypothetical ‘business-in-a-box’ with everything already defined … Continue reading →