Some Lessons For Enterprise From Startup Culture
Extracted from Re/Code “Big Tech Is Going Down” with my comments in brackets. “The pace and nature of change in the core underlying technologies, product development, selling models and buying […]
Strategy
The Enterprise vision and strategy
Top managment sets a vision. That is, a big picture they see the enterprise evolving to. But so (should) do the departments for their own functions. For instance, technology may have a vision. Human Resources may have one etc.
In doing EA one ha…
Avoiding delusions of strategy
What is a strategy? How do we create a strategy? – rather than merely a delusion of ‘strategy’? Several of the folks in my Twitterstream – Gerold Kathan and Shawn Callahan, amongst others – pointed recently to a great HBR…
Why strategy fails (part one)
Originally posted on loppysmile:
Most strategies fail. Rewind. Most marketing and comms strategies fail. I’m not saying they don’t have an impact. What I mean is, most fail to achieve their stated outcomes. Downer. A lot of the time, we’re never forced to recognise that our pretty little diagrams amounted to jack. We pump out a…
A kind of manifesto (short version)
Enterprise-architecture is dead; long live the architecture of the enterprise? Or something like that, anyway… Time for a kind of manifesto, I guess? As is perhaps too usual in my writing, the full-length version of the ‘manifesto’ ended up, uh, kinda long……
A kind of manifesto
Enterprise-architecture is dead; long live the architecture of the enterprise? Or something like that, anyway… So, what next? Time for a kind of manifesto, I guess? At the least, time for a fairly major paradigm-change in how we view the…
Enterprise Architecture and Strategy – Calgary EA Forum October 22, 2013
I once again have the pleasure of speaking with the friendly and enthusiastic EA community in Calgary, this time on the relationship between Strategy and Enterprise Architecture. With EA gaining traction within the business community there is a whole new…
Crossing The Strategy Chasm
Strategy is hard to craft and even harder to implement. Executives naively believe because they said it everyone will follow. I wish it were that simple. The innovation diffusion curve, an interesting model used by marketing can help explain how strategy adoption moves through an organization. What is innovation diffusion? The original Innovation diffusion theory […]
Why Good Strategy Goes Bad
Almost every day I talk with smart, capable executives who struggle to bring their strategies to fruition. They want to run a great organization but settle for good… and often less. These executives fully understand their organization’s challenges and have great ideas to address them. Yet they struggle to get the organization focused on the […]
Strategy and Tactics – We need them both
In past posts, I have addressed the difference between strategic thinking and tactical thinking. Here I want to take a deeper, more explicit look into the differences. As business architects we can often be overly focused on strategy and think of tactics as bad. However, this is not the case. We need tactical thinking to […]
Webinar: Why Good Strategies Go Bad and what you can do about it
I will be presenting a webinar on Tuesday, September 24th and again on Thursday September 26th on the topic of developing actionable strategies. This free webinar is sponsored by Accelare and is open for anyone to attend. You can register here: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 – 1:00PM EDT or Thursday, September 26th, 2013 – 11:00AM EDT […]
Anecdotes and government-policy
It started out as a comment on satire, but quietly explores some much more serious themes: this particular Twitter back-and-forth between Stephen Bounds and Shawn Callahan (via his Anecdote persona) is another one that definitely deserves a more permanent place! It…