I recently presented a seminar at an event called “Data, the vital organisation enabler” Information is at the Heart of ALL of the Business during which I raised the question, …
Business Architecture Essentials
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View PostDefining Business Analysis for Big Data
In the beginning of the Information Era, there was business analysis for application development. Waterfall methods, Rapid Application Development, Agile methods,.. all were based on delivering a functioning piece of …
Learning Organisations
If your organisation were a child, what would they like? Go ahead, take a few minutes to write down your thoughts. What did you write? Maybe you said it’s like …
Why Big Data Requires a Big Commitment from the Top
Executives at a European financial services firm had a vision. They would create a data analytics application to collect information about all their customers’ behaviors and preferences in all the …
Preparing Data for Analytics: Making it Easier and Faster
Advances in data preparation and integration will have a major impact on BI, visual analytics, and data discovery. Here are three points to consider as you evaluate and deploy these …
Rationale for Rationale
This is the eleventh in a series that explains the thinking behind the Volere ( the Italian verb – to wish or to want ) requirements techniques — previous and …
Selling Data Governance in your Organisation
As a data management professional, you probably don’t consider yourself a salesperson. If you’re like many of us in the data management field, you pride yourself on your technical skills …
Insight to Innovation: A User-Centred Approach to Consistently Creating Breakthrough Ideas
People do surprising things. That is the first thing you come to realise when you start designing with users in mind. What each of us takes for granted is that …
Big Data Demands Big Picture Thinking, Part 1
View PostHow to Accelerate Enterprise BPM Projects
BPM holds both promise and anxiety for the Enterprise. Large companies and public bodies who have not yet migrated to BPM, know that such projects can have a major beneficial …
Top 5 Data Architecture Challenges
Ron Huizenga, Embarcadero Technologies, Inc, ron.huizenga@embarcadero.com Data architects face many challenges on a day-to-day basis. This paper will highlight 5 major challenge areas, and provide insights regarding how to address …
Q&A: BI Leaders Must Evolve to Survive – interview with Wayne Eckerson
View PostThe Times They Are A –Changin’
David Beckham, Senior BA – Aviva Life, david.beckham@aviva.co.uk David will be speaking at our Business Analysis Conference Europe 2015 on The Power of Change – A Personal Journey Date Masamune …
The Potential for Digital Britain
View PostBig Data is All the Rage, But Dimensional Data Warehouses Get the Job Done
By: Aaron Fuller, Principal Consultant and Owner, Superior Data Strategies aaron@superiordatastrategies.com Previous article on TDWI here. Although there’s considerable potential in big data, overinvesting in the technology can starve what produces consistent value …
Case Management and CMMN for Developers
Workflow engines have arrived in developer toolboxes. The BPMN 2.0 standard is typically used. When automating, however, one might come across situations in which humans must be able to affect …
Management Systems – A Value Based Governance Model
Management systems often have a bad reputation among employees. If you look at a large organization and ask its employees about its management system, you are likely to get a …
Decomposing User Stories
Among the most important questions for a BA when eliciting requirements are, “how do I know when I have finished?” Or, in other words, “at what stage can I tell …