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Why And How Is EA Relevant To The Top Team?

In Enterprise Architecture by IRM UK27/02/20180 Comments

It’s a recurrent theme – how can EA leaders engage with the top team – particularly business executives. This article includes supportive findings from the McKinsey & Henley Business School …

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Enterprise Architecture: Exploring a Chemistry Metaphor

In Enterprise Architecture by IRM UK30/01/20180 Comments

Many times, I am asked, “what is the difference between the Zachman Framework and other Frameworks, notably TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)? There is a profound difference and Alan …

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Robotic Process Automation

In Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture by IRM UK29/11/20170 Comments

What do we mean with Robotic Process Automation. Is this just the execution of a regular business process by a robot instead of a human workforce? And therefore RPA does …

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What Shapes My Thinking: Digital Operating Model & Technology Strategy

In Enterprise Architecture by IRM UK28/09/20170 Comments

As a CTO & Chief Architect, what shapes my thinking on operating model design & technology strategy for the modern digital world? I shared some of my insights when I …

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Anyone Can Have an Architectural Idea

In Enterprise Architecture by IRM UK31/08/20170 Comments

Anyone, anywhere, and at anytime, can have an idea that could impact your enterprise’s architecture. They might be an enterprise architect, but are most probably not. Depending on the value …

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Patterns of Strategy

In Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy & Management by IRM UK30/03/20170 Comments

Enterprise Architecture has always had a slightly unbalanced relationship with strategy. Often the line taken by EA is that its job is to follow strategy, to design, redesign or reconfigure …

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Developing your Process Architecture: It’s all About Your Work

In Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy & Management by IRM UK30/01/20171 Comment

Introduction In the first article of this series, I discussed the current interest in Business Architecture that has been brewing in the last little while and also discussed some of …

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The Mythic Business Analyst: The Next Evolution of the BA Role

In Business Analysis, Business Process Management, Change Management, Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy & Management by IRM UK30/01/20172 Comments

I have been interested in myths and legends for as long as I can remember, thrilling to the adventures of the heroes and heroines that battled the forces of darkness, …

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Paper on the Case of Customer Recruitment Processes: Dynamic Evolution of CRM Resource

In Business Architecture, Business Process Management, Change Management, Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy & Management by IRM UK18/10/20160 Comments

This study is borne from a concern that organisations continue to invest significantly in CRM systems that are redundant by the time they are launched. This is because these systems …

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Reinventing IT: How Strategic Enterprise Design Leads Digital Transformation

In Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Design, IT Strategy & Management by IRM UK29/09/20160 Comments

Enterprise IT is broken. Ask any person in “the business” – and to IT that means anyone else – what they think about IT, and you get a blank stare …

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The Buried Treasure of Enterprise Architecture

In Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy & Management, Uncategorized by IRM UK28/09/20160 Comments

Enterprises make architectural investments, whether or not they have an architecture team. Yet, executives can often find it hard to put a value on those investments, or even know which …

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Architecting Change as a Core Competency

In Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture by IRM UK24/08/20160 Comments

In a recent article for Forbes I wrote that enterprise architects (EAs) should be less agents of change as architects of change. In response, several EAs commented that what they …

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Architecture Is Architecture Is Architecture

In Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy & Management by IRM UK25/05/20161 Comment

In 1980, we were having difficulty transforming the Enterprise Strategy into implemented systems, the instantiated Enterprise, because the strategies tended to be articulated in a somewhat abstract form like “Make …

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Synthesizing your Architecture’s Strategic Guidance

In Business Architecture, Business Process Management, Change Management, Enterprise Architecture by IRM UK25/05/20160 Comments

Introduction In the first article of this series, I discussed the current interest in Business Architecture that has been brewing in the last little while and also discussed some of …

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Application Portfolio Rationalization

In Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategy & Management by IRM UK18/04/20161 Comment

It is interesting how certain topics just never seem to grow old and remain interesting –  like speaking about the weather. Topics like these even exist in architecture. Application Rationalization …

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The Five Traits of a Successful Digital Leader

In Business Architecture, Digital, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Innovation, IT Strategy & Management by IRM UK13/04/20160 Comments

Innovation is a dirty word… which is why we started to call it disruption. Today, disruption stands for the new digital adversaries that are aggressively entering your market space at …

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Twenty years on, and stakeholders still don’t speak architect…

In Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture by IRM UK11/04/20160 Comments

Twenty years ago, the US Congress signed an Act known as The Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA).  The Act made it a legal requirement for US Federal agencies to appoint a CIO …

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Are you Suffering from EA Model Sickness?

In Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture by IRM UK17/03/20161 Comment

Working within the field of enterprise architecture, my team and I sadly encounter the disease ‘model sickness’ or see evidence of being ‘model sick’ all too often! This serious, yet …

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Beware the Bimodal Disaster

In Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture by IRM UK17/03/20161 Comment

As enterprises around the world struggle with their digital transformation efforts, many are finding that their innovative digital teams are moving much faster than their hidebound IT organizations. Rather than …

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Reflections on Michael Porter’s Article on Digitization and IoT

In Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Innovation by IRM UK21/02/20160 Comments

The development of intelligent, connected products are radically transforming our operations and how we compete. Michael Porter for decades has been the the world’s most successful and influential business strategist. …

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