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Business Decisions

Realising the Idea

May 16, 2018 by Kim Parker

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 →

Categories #eavoices, Business Benefit, Business Decisions, Business Process Improvement, Idea realisation, risk management Tags #eavoices

Business Measures

March 19, 2014 by Kim Parker

Lord Kelvin in 1883 said “I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in … Continue reading →

Categories Business Decisions, Business Measures, Mesurement

Enterprise Architecture: Differentiating wants and needs.

July 7, 2013 by Kim Parker

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 →

Categories Business Decisions, Business Needs, Business Wants, Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture: Closing the stable door before the horse has bolted.

July 1, 2013 by Kim Parker

There are likely to be times when a business will engage in some activity or make a product acquisition which, in hindsight, would prove to be less than beneficial. Perhaps in the enthusiasm generated through a vendor’s sales process the … Continue reading →

Categories Business Decisions, Business Impact, Enterprise Architecture, risk

Enterprise Architecture: Steering the business towards success.

June 30, 2013 by Kim Parker

Frequently business decision making leans towards the tactical and reactive rather than the strategic and proactive. This is exacerbated through: poorly applied governance and compliance; inadequate communication and consultation with key stakeholders; inadequate assessment of business and technical options; inadequate … Continue reading →

Categories Business Decisions, enterprise, Impact Assessment

Demystifying Enterprise Architecture.

June 28, 2013 by Kim Parker

Enterprise Architecture is not something of which a business should be wary. There is little concern apparent when required to use a word processor or a spreadsheet to support documentation or analysis activities within the business. Both are accepted as … Continue reading →

Categories Business Decisions, Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture – Supporting Business Change

April 30, 2013 by Kim Parker

All businesses are dynamic in so far as they need to respond to change drivers. How they respond is very much dependent on how well they know their business and its inter-dependencies. It is very well accepted that the change … Continue reading →

Categories Business Change, Business Decisions, Business Impact, Enterprise Architecture

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