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Published in ComputerWeekly The UK government’s recently announced cyber security threat information sharing partnership serves to underline the level of cyber risk organisations are facing. For those responsible for public and private sector IT services, it is of further concern … Continue reading →
How often is an established Enterprise Architecture approach used to create a Target Operating Model? If the answer is not often, then why not? If the answer is yes all the time, then how should we go about creating one ? Are traditional consultancy approaches to target operating models good enough? What is an Operating […]
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Values not practiced just pull the wool over the eyes of our stakeholders.
To make the Values happen, we should cascade them hierarchically, top down, from conceptual to practical, to Policies and Procedures. As a …
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The Company Values establish, ideally, a standard to guide the behaviour of a company and its employees.
The Values, which state the expectations from the employee behaviour and company, are to steer the company decision making a…
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To be applied in practice, the company values must be embedded in every day behaviour, in enterprise processes, in meeting protocols, at regular reviews… so that any development, body and action shall consider them.
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Compliance is only one of the key aspects of Governance, albeit one of the most well know ones. Sometimes it seems like governance gets too mired in setting up command and control, and never matures to the next level.Gartner defines Governance with a h…
Compliance is only one of the key aspects of Governance, albeit one of the most well know ones. Sometimes it seems like governance gets too mired in setting up command and control, and never matures to the next level.Gartner defines Governance with a h…
This post is part of a larger series to provide a detailed set of steps you can take to unlock breakthrough results in Big Data Analytics. This step addresses identifying the type and nature of the operating models used within the analytic community along with the most important capability each demands.
I write this post as part of a fond farewell to the University of Bristol as I have now concluded my very enjoyable 4 years as Enterprise Architect there and I have just moved on to the role of Senior Enterprise Architect at the University down the road – UWE! UWE are building quite a […]
This post is part of a fond farewell to the University of Bristol as I have now finished a very enjoyable 4 years as Enterprise Architect there and I have just moved on to the role of Senior Enterprise Architect at the University down the road – UWE! UWE are building quite a significant EA […]
On 5-6 May, at Axelborg in Copenhagen, we hold the QualiWare user community’s annual gathering. The two days are packed with keynotes, thematic sessions, and customer cases. And a game. We have four keynotes: The future of managed business transformation by Kuno Brodersen The Fourth Industrial Revolution: How “Industry 4.0” becomes Smart Production by Professor Charles Møller Expanding […]
At the root of the IT transformation failures is the current culture of lack of governance and accountability. As a rule, those responsible must be accountable as well.