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Right Sourcing: Enabling Collaboration is now available for ordering from the publisher (US, UK). The book puts forward the proposal that the modern enterprise must fundamentally rethink its ‘sourcing equation’ to become or remain viable. By presenting perspectives on sourcing from 21 different contributors, the editors hope to enable and inspire readers to make better-informed decisions. […]
Our new book, Right Sourcing: Enabling Collaboration, is now available for ordering at the publishers websites: US: http://lnkd.in/AWVXt6 UK: http://lnkd.in/vFCWZB Read more about the book and the project at http://sourcing-it.org Rien Dijkstra, John Gøtze and Pieter van der Ploug are the editors. The foreword … Continue reading →
What is strategy? That question pops up a lot and everyone seems to have an answer. Just not the same answer. However, one thing is clear. Most people and I mean truly smart people often get strategy wrong. So wrong in fact that that many executives give up on strategy altogether. I once was in […]
If you’ve got Windows 8 then there’s now a free app you can download to help create the Visual Story Map, which is the core model in the visual storytelling approach from my book Stories That Move Mountains. Qool (http://qool.598studiosinc.com/) allows…
If you’ve got Windows 8 then there’s now a free app you can download to help create the Visual Story Map, which is the core model in the visual storytelling approach from my book Stories That Move Mountains. Qool (http://qool.598studiosinc.com/) allows…
I have gotten a surprising (or maybe not so surprising) discussion on the TOGAF Demystification Series. In one of the posts entitled, "TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Sucks, Incomplete And Overly Complex" there were many comments made about this one in…
Constructing Business Capabilities Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is largely driven 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 activities […]
Defining Business Capabilities Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is largely driven 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 activities […]
Digital Enterprise Design & Management (DED&M) 2014 February 2014 – Paris, France Important dates Pre-submission deadline for an optional abstract: July 31, 2013 Submission deadline : September 15, 2013 Acceptance notice for contributions: September 30, 2013 Submission deadline of final version for Proceedings: November 6, 2013 Conference: February, 2014 “Best papers” awards: February, 2014 Scientific […]
What’s the real role of money within design for an enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? [Apologies, folks: this one’s turned out to be really long, even by my usual standards – but unfortunately this theme is so darn controversial that it really does need the…
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One of my startup heroes Steve Blank wrote in a blog post that “value proposition is the fancy name for your product or service” It is with some trepidation that […]