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“Nobody plans to fail, they only fail to plan.” These tend to be the first words you hear after missing some obvious element in an otherwise brilliant solution. A good friend of mine once had to call the police to open the locked trunk of his car. Se…
"Nobody plans to fail, they only fail to plan." These tend to be the first words you hear after missing some obvious element in an otherwise brilliant solution. A good friend of mine once had to call the police to open the locked trunk of his car. Seems the last thing he did before shutting the lid was to place his keys on his coat, which was in the trunk. He had a back-up key, which was in
Customer Relationship Management systems have been a hot item ever since Peter Siebel started his company in the mid 90s. With the mobile internet they got an additional boost as they enabled the data gathering of orders and relationships on the go. Or at least that was the idea. The reality did show that a … Continue reading On stupidity – CRM →
How can we simplify the SCORE framework – Strengths, Challenges, Options, Responses, Effectiveness – to make it more accessible as a practical, more strategy-oriented replacement for SWOT? As summarised in the post ‘More on simplifying SCORE‘, the way to use SCORE is sort-of…
By The Open Group IT Risk Management is currently in a state of flux with many organizations today unsure not only how to best assess risk but also how to place it within the context of their business. Ben Tomhave, … Continue reading →
Sharing knowledge and good practices is one of the core values of BiZZdesign. We regularly organize and contribute to online and offline seminars, conferences and round tables. Recently there was a very successful seminar on Enterprise Risk and Security Architecture for Dutch financial institutions. After presentations on “Security is not an IT problem”, and the often lacking connection between policies and measures in many organizations, we had a World Café on various topics. The blog covers the findings around the topic ‘How to create and sustain security awareness’ Please share your good and worst practices by reacting to this blog.
Human Capital Management was coined after the word of Human Resources got a bad name and is a classical example that just changing the name will not create any real change. During my work I have too often seen many self styled HCM expert architects who did not even understand the high level business process … Continue reading On Stupidity – HCM →
We have to control the Digital evolution rather that the vice versa.
Adopting a technology frantically, one at a time, without the benefit of the big picture, may ultimately contribute to failure rather than success.
The Cloud makes our digital evolut…
A couple evenings ago the BCS (British Computer Society) held a open question-and-answer session with John Zachman at the EAC-BPM conference in London. How much has the Zachman Framework for enterprise-architecture changed over the past decades – and particularly over the…
A short one today. I have a view taken from a certain book. The view contains an error, can you spot it? And when you have spotted it, go to the ArchiMate 2.1 Specification and can you tell me what … Continue reading →
For those of you that are seasoned users of BiZZdesign Architect and the ArchiMate modelling capability, you may be aware of the ‘Auto-layout’ functionality built into the modelling canvas. After generating a view from the model, the results aren’t always perfect.
How do we use SCORE, as a practical, more strategy-oriented replacement for SWOT? These are some additional notes as a follow-up and extension to the previous post ‘Simplifying SCORE‘. They perhaps apply in particular to the new simplified layout for…