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What is a Digital Disruptor?

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In the short time it takes to develop an app, digital disruptors can force well-established companies to change the way they do business. Even worse, they can put them out of business all together. Who are these digital disruptors? How do they think? What drives them? How do they pull off the coups they do? Business and technology executives would be wise to dive inside the minds of digital disruptors to anticipate threats to their […]

Employees as customers of HR

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What is the proper – or most effective – relationship between the so-called ‘Human Resources’ department and the employees of an organisation? (Okay, I admit it, I’ve allowed myself to get somewhat distracted from finishing the promised assessment of use…

Capabilities Demystified – Part 4

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Applying Capabilities to Business Challenges Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is driven largely by three factors. First, business leaders at all levels find capabilities an appealing and useful way to think about growing their organization’s impact. Second, capabilities are versatile, easily applied to high-level strategic […]

Outside In

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How often do you see customer journeys, customer events and scenarios modelled in an Enterprise Architecture model? Not often, if at all I suspect. In my opinion, the ‘Enterprise’ in Enterprise Architecture should include all those stakeholders that are engaged with an organisation. This include all those suppliers and service providers to the left hand […]

Emerging Technology and Disruptive Technology – What’s the Difference?

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Some people question my use of the word “emerging” to categorize technologies such as social, mobile, cloud, analytics, sensors and others.  They argue that these technologies are already here and aren’t emerging anymore.  Some suggest using “disruptive” to describe them instead.  Now is a good time to distinguish between these two labels and make sure that we are using each to help us better understand technology’s impact to our businesses. Emerging means to come into […]

Every organisation is ‘for-profit’

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What’s the fundamental difference between a for-profit organisation, and a not-for-profit one? Or, for that matter, between either of those and, say, a government department, or an NGO (non-governmental organisation)? Short answer: none – because every organisation is a for-profit organisation. The only…

Webinar: The Strategy to Execution Process

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Jim Champy and Jack Calhoun will introduce the latest work Accelare is doing with clients to advance the development and practice of the Strategy to Execution Process. This free webinar is sponsored by Accelare and is open for anyone to attend. You can register here:   Tuesday, June 18, 2013 – 10:00AM EDT     or   Tuesday, […]