It is more than 20 years since the first Volere Requirements Specification was launched. Since that beginning so much has happened and so many people in so many industries have …
Business Analysis – The What, The How And The Why – A South African Perspective
Saratoga’s Mohamed Bray is a business analyst who wears many hats. From consulting with other analysts and project managers to contributing to the establishment of the profession in South Africa, …
I’m Not a Business Analyst – I’m a Business Analyst Designer
For many years I have been calling myself a Business Analyst. But recently I’ve been feeling somewhat awkward in my own skin. I’ve noticed that I don’t do things in …
Taking Reality Seriously – Towards a More Self-Regulating Management Model at Statoil
At Statoil, we try to take reality seriously, not just a dynamic and unpredictable business environment, but also all the competent and responsible people in the company. It sounds obvious, …
Architecture Is Architecture Is Architecture
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 …
Is IT Splitting up?
A recent report by Forrester, revealed that more than half of companies with 10% year on year revenue growth have appointed Chief Data Officers (CDOs). Although overall only 45% of …
The Potential for Digital Britain
I recently hosted guests visiting my team and I from HM Treasury, and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. It was a short visit and one that reminded me of the importance of …
Application Portfolio Rationalization
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 …
The Data Governance – Business Dialogue
Productive relationships are based on establishing a shared understanding, then maintaining a meaningful dialogue. For data governance initiatives this means going beyond merely imposing policies and standards and engaging in …
Requirements in an Agile World – Webinar by James Robertson
This talk starts with the idea of the agile world. That is, the world we live in is constantly evolving and changing, presenting both problems and opportunities. The agile project …
The Five Traits of a Successful Digital Leader
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 …
Putting Process at the Centre of Business Management
Enabling the increasingly impossible demand to do even more with even less. We traditionally manage organisations via the template laid out by the organisation chart. Yet not one of the entities …
Data Governance: “Where’s the Money, Honey?”
Becoming a data-driven company: what’s not to like about it? Many organizations are embarking on their own “Big Data” journey, and many are finding that it’s not obvious how to …
To Be, or Not To Be – Why EAs are also Scenario Planners
Enterprise Architects are valued for their impact on reality. To achieve that impact, they have to imagine some not-yet-real future, compare it with today, figure out how best to get …
Enterprise Architecture. Play or Pass?
How Enterprise Architects Maximize Their Impact on Business Performance By Chris Potts, cdpotts@dominicbarrow.com Chris will be presenting the following two seminars for IRM UK in November in London: Management Strategies …
From data tragedy to information strategy : Succeeding in the information age
Evolving from automation to information centricity The industrial revolution began with the mechanisation and thus automation of the tasks of the workers in order to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. …
Chris Potts on The Corporate Strategy for IT
Chris Potts discusses his upcoming seminar: The Corporate Strategy for IT, taking place in London 21-22 April & 17-18 November 2015. The Seminar Information is available at: http://www.irmuk.co.uk/events/41.cfm Overview From …
Is the Executive Suite Like Wall Street ?
How Enterprise Investment projects compare with investing in stocks and shares “Projects are like stocks” famously observed the US Government’s first‐ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, on his appointment back in 2009. …