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Over the last two decades, Lean management has proved to be very powerful in improving an organizations business process performance. During the same time frame, Enterprise Architecture came up as a discipline for controlling the complexity of organiz…
When Darwin wrote his opus magnum On the Origin of Species (Darwin, 1859) he most likely did not have businesses and other enterprises in mind. Yet, the adage survival of the fittest definitely applies to many modern day enterprises. Opportunities and…
I was reading this today: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/ea-matters/is-there-an-enterprise-architect-paradox-surely-is-57728?rss=1 It is a good analysis of the cognitive dissonance between what Enterprise Architects should be doing and the role and situation they often actually find themselves in. The term Enterprise Architect has been hijacked for far too long. An Enterprise Architect should indeed be a senior leadership role, ideally reporting to […]
Personal context is the context we think about the least. As we attempt to navigate the organization’s structural and cultural context, our own personal context filters our view as well as our response. Every person has what I call the “ME” factor. It is made up of our personality, experiences, beliefs, investments, and most likely […]
I discovered over the weekend that November 9th was Chaos Never Dies Day. According to one description, “Chaos Never Dies Day takes the stance that the perfect, quiet moment we’re all striving for and anticipating doesn’t – and likely never will – exist, and that we should make the most of now, chaos-and-all, and embrace the moment.”
What a perfect time to reflect upon the seemingly never-ending quest to manage change and chaos within the enterprise. Keeping with the spirit of the holiday, perhaps an appropriate approach is to embrace and optimize chaos rather than seek to eliminate it from our lives.
At Troux, we help temper chaos by providing our customers with Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) solutions to implement and maintain a successful Enterprise Architecture (EA) program. Done right, EA can empower organizations to analyze the chaos and make smart decisions across operational and transformational initiatives.
Navigating your way through massive amounts of data and technological change coming from various silos to get to a set of relevant, complete, accurate, and timely information has historically created decision-making challenges in business. Today that problem grows more acute as the pace and breadth of change increases and expands. Since these dynamics affect the entire enterprise, it’s important that decisions are made with an understanding of the connected enterprise – not in isolation. Leaders need business context to understand how each decision impacts the whole of enterprise.
With Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM), organizations move from chaos to harmony by understanding and optimizing the connected set of enterprise portfolios: goals and strategies, business architecture, applications, technology, information, and investments. With a full scope of your assets – both tangible and intangible – you can understand how change affects all parts of your connected enterprise.
It’s that simple… and that involved. It isn’t an easy task and everyone must be onboard to make it work. But, it can work. We have seen it time and again.
Take a look at some how our customers leveraged EPM to embrace the chaos:
Mosaic – The Fast Track to Success: Mosaic is a multi-billion dollar global Fortune 500 company that helps the world grow the food it needs. When the company’s CIO laid out a vision for IT a plan was developed to support the change from a tactical approach to decision-making toward a strategic approach that would focus on business outcomes and measurable contribution to Mosaic’s long-term success. Mosaic partnered with Troux to establish an Application Portfolio Management program that identified millions of dollars in recurring cost savings in just 17 weeks.
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership – Transparency Across the Connected Enterprise: Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) is one of Europe’s largest asset management companies and part of Lloyds Banking Group. Managing funds worth more than £145 billion. When business leaders decided to significantly increase their change budget, strategic planners knew they would need access to improved decision making data and level of transparency across the enterprise they never had before. Engaging with Troux, SWIP embarked on holistic approach and was able to capture and store mission-critical decision making data from across the enterprise in just 12 week.
It’s not easy to function amid chaos, and it is next to impossible to eliminate it, but at Troux we believe in finding ways to make chaos work for you.
What skills do we need for enterprise-architecture – for a literal ‘architecture of the enterprise’? And why? And how do we certify those skills? Or should we even try to certify those skills? If so, why? If not, why not? The…
Enterprise Architecture is a framework of decision mak […]
The EA team alone cannot develop and maintain the whole EA without participation of stakeholders with respect to their own parts, Hence, the EA group has to create a governance framework that would be employed in the consistent design of EA a…
Career Path for Management Roles There are three job descriptions in the management career path for our IT department. The entry level position is Team Leader. The Team Leader role has day to day operational responsibility for the services delivered by their team. The role also has tactical responsibility for project resourcing and reports to […]
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On Monday November 18th I will be giving the keynote presentation at the HP Customer Forum in Cincinnati. The theme of the event is the future of IT and what you need to prepare for it. HP calls this the…
By Manuel Ponchaux, Senior Consultant, Corso The Corso team recently visited London for The Open Group’s “Business Transformation in Finance, Government & Healthcare” conference (#ogLON). The event was predominantly for learning how experts address organisational change when aligning business needs … Continue reading →