The data warehouse, the data lake, the data hub, and also the data lake house differ in many ways. But they have a few things in common. First, they are …
It’s Time To Stop Treating End User Computing As Antisocial Behavior
End User Computing (EUC) is, in my experience, usually regarded as a sordid and unsavory activity that respectable members of the enterprise should not indulge in, and which in an …
Visualising Business Analysis
Visual thinking opens up new possibilities that can take your business analysis practices to the next level, writes Grant Wright, Principal Consultant at Scarlett Solutions and co-founder of The Visual …
I’m In The Room – Are You?
I’m not really a big fan of online or remote interaction – frequently exacerbated by my failure to properly harness new technology. But needs must and, for me at least, …
Integrated Data or Integrateable Data?
In different contexts, I am more and more confronted with an architectural discussion about whether data should be delivered in an integrated way or whether the data should be integrateable? In …
A Checklist for Business Analysis Planning
Use the Universal Business Analysis Planning Checklist as You Plan Your Business Analysis Approach. Every project is a unique, temporary endeavor. The business process management, regulatory compliance and digital transformation …
Data Quality Shortcomings: Another Case For Data Governance
Data quality has again made headline news in the UK, and as usual for all the wrong reasons. In February 2021 UK TV and press extensively covered a story which …
What’s the Point of Business Events?
Whatever it is you are working on, it is almost certainly made up of many, sometimes very many, pieces. Each of the pieces interacts with other pieces to achieve some …
A Lesson In Visual Storytelling
Let me set the scene. About six years ago, not long after the book Stories That Move Mountains was published, I was at a big technology company’s internal company event. …
Digital Transformation in an Age of Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing much of what business and society takes for granted. It may also be the incentive needed to get digital transformation done. Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder …
Signals In The Noise
Fact 1: process management seeks to improve organizational performance.Fact 2: to manage a process effectively, its performance must be measured reliably. Roger Tregear, Principal Advisor, TregearBPMRoger presented a workshop at …
Choosing An Enterprise Information Catalog
Over recent years, the demand to analyse new types of data has caused significant changes to the analytical landscape. Many companies today are way beyond just having a data warehouse. …
Are You New to Data Quality? Three Essential Best Practices
As I was growing up my mother was a fantastic seamstress. Depending on my needs at any point in time, she would make me school or casual clothes, a club …
The Business Case for a Common Language: Not “If,” but “What and When?”
1. Opportunity While most people don’t think about it very often, common language is essential to day-in, day-out commerce. Companies and others[1] employ standards to ensure that a meter is …
Assess – Listening To The Voices
I am increasingly drawn to the term active process management, not just as an interesting adjectival phrase or a cryptic comment about an implied sense of frequency, but as a …
National Air Traffic Services Enterprise Architecture: Opportunity In Challenging Times
During even the most challenging times such as the Covid-19 pandemic, effective use of Enterprise Architecture (EA) can guide sound strategy, planning, and refining of processes within an organisation can …
Data Modelling For Analytics Using Timeless Techniques
Data wrangling is the process of gathering, selecting, and transforming data to answer an analytical question. Also known as data cleaning or “munging”, legend has it that this wrangling costs …
Life Moves Pretty Fast; What About You?
The ability of your organisation to thrive is linked to how rapidly it can accommodate, adapt to, or avoid the challenges coming from the competitive environment. With the increase in …
How Does Good Data Impact Our Life?
A leading office products manufacturer had data on thousands of unique products which were scattered across multiple European siloed systems equating tens of thousands of duplicated products. Every new product …
12th Annual Business Analysis Conference Europe
The 12th annual Business Analysis Conference Europe 2020 took place recently 22-23 September and we were delighted that this, our first ever virtual Conference received positive feedback from our delegates, …