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This visual map shows how business units of The Walt Disney Company contribute to each other’s activities. Stunning, he drew this in 1957.
I blogged a while ago: “Architects are comfortable with the idea of creating visual …
Writing the Pitch! In the fifth iteration I’ve written a pitch to present the business idea as it would be presented to potential participants. The pitch answers the basic set of questions: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How. The Pitch Welcome to Masters of the Trail 2012: For this nine-day event we are working […]
How does an Enterprise Architecture and a Business Model work together? Successful organisations are those that improve and innovate their Business Models to find a profitable niche against their competitors. But a new Business Model alone is not enough. It needs to be implemented and executed. This is where an Enterprise Architecture comes in. If […]
In the fourth iteration we are piloting the business model by taking it to the market. We are currently allowing people to sign up to become eligible for the selection of riders. At the same time we are working with other partners pitching the idea to serious sponsors. If you want to join up all […]
This the third iteration moves us from an initial idea towards actually figuring out how to put the basic building blocks together into a coherent wholeness. Usually this design stage of the business model is done in a set of workshops where different scenarios are explored. In this case the pattern behind the scenario illustrated […]
In iteration #2 there are some more details and concepts has been shifted around or renamed. The basic idea is still the same. Even though the business innovation might not be visible it is in there. As time goes by details will be found, explored and put into supporting documents.
One of the major tasks on my plate is understanding the impact of business systems to support the explosion of Software as a service business offerings, such as Exchange Hosted Services, Windows Live offerings and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Live. These bus…
Business Process management focuses on how the enterprise operates and delivers the results, i.e. products and services to external and internal customers. A business process maturity model is a structured framework to assess your organization’s level of maturity in managing and optimizing business processes. It helps you to understand the current state of BPM maturity…
Business Process management focuses on how the enterprise operates and delivers the results, i.e. products and services to external and internal customers. A business process maturity model is a structured framework to assess your organization’s level of maturity in managing and optimizing business processes. It helps you to understand the current state of BPM maturity…
Topic: Business Process management focuses on how the enterprise operates and delivers the results i.e. products and services to external and internal customers. Business process management practitioners face many challenges, among others, managing their process models in a structured way. Some practitioners struggle with process models that are hard to maintain and manage and views…
Process modeling in today’s business psyche is almost always driven by process automation or robotization. This is a natural and laudable objective, but it should not overshadow the fact that process modeling is the first and foremost prerequisite to …
Every business has a strategic set of goals to achieve success. To meet these objectives, every part of an organization must be aligned and work collaboratively. Unfortunately, though, this is where issues often arise. By not understanding the…