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The progress of Digital technology brings in the enterprise new business models.
Companies increasingly market, sale and service over net channels, rent their resources from the cloud and let partners provide…
Services serve the needs of someone. Disservices purport to serve the needs of someone, but don’t – sometimes through incompetence or failure in operation, sometimes through incompetence in service-design, and sometimes even by intent. And therein lie a huge range of problems…
Services serve: they serve the needs of someone, or, in a broader ecosystem, the needs of something. Services serve – that’s why they’re called ‘services’. Yet what do we call something that purports to serve some need, but doesn’t? I’d suggest…
“Never expect someone to get it if their income, job or status depend on not getting it” – that’s a challenge that enterprise-architects and others face every single day… Within the enterprise, we’re tasked with finding ways to implement and support…
While a digital strategy is now a mandatory requirement for corporations the world over, there are varying perspectives of what a digital strategy should comprise, often reflecting the authorship of the strategy within the offices […]
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How can we simplify the SCORE framework – Strengths, Challenges, Options, Responses, Effectiveness – to make it more accessible as a practical, more strategy-oriented replacement for SWOT? As summarised in the post ‘More on simplifying SCORE‘, the way to use SCORE is sort-of…
A couple evenings ago the BCS (British Computer Society) held a open question-and-answer session with John Zachman at the EAC-BPM conference in London. How much has the Zachman Framework for enterprise-architecture changed over the past decades – and particularly over the…
How do we use SCORE, as a practical, more strategy-oriented replacement for SWOT? These are some additional notes as a follow-up and extension to the previous post ‘Simplifying SCORE‘. They perhaps apply in particular to the new simplified layout for…
I love beer commercials. A couple of years ago, Miller Light created an ad campaign (later regarded as one of the ten best campaigns ever) in which consumers of the frothy brew disagreed over their motivations for choosing Miller Light. "Tastes Great", one faction would yell, "Less Filling" says the others. Between 1973 and 1978, Miller sales exploded from just under 7 million barrels to over
I love beer commercials. A couple of years ago, Miller Light created an ad campaign (later regarded as one of the ten best campaigns ever) in which consumers of the frothy brew disagreed over their motivations for choosing Miller Light. “Tastes Great”,…
A fascinating 10 minute video from Stanford’s Robert Sutton. It discusses the mind-set and strategies of companies that are most adept at building and spreading high standards. And here is the link to “Robert Sutton’s Guide to Excellence”: http://strat.bz/wqRmb2P.
The first enterprise to have an effective technology would benefit from a competitive advantage.
The enterprises that choose and properly integrate the increasing plethora of technologies would do best.