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 …
The Buried Treasure of Enterprise Architecture
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 …
Architecting Change as a Core Competency
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 …
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 …
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 …
Synthesizing your Architecture’s Strategic Guidance
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 …
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 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 …
Twenty years on, and stakeholders still don’t speak architect…
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 …
Are you Suffering from EA Model Sickness?
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 …
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 …
Beware the Bimodal Disaster
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 …
Defining your External Stakeholders: Interactions, Value, and Performance | Business Architecture Essentials
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 the …
Defining your Architecture Scope: The Role of Value Chains
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 the …
Business Architecture Essentials
View PostHighlights of upcoming Enterprise Architecture & BPM Conference Europe 2015
Conference Highlights Include: • Excellent Mix of Vision, Theory and Implementation. Discover new approaches and innovative ideas, while at the same time learning from organisations who have benefited from implementing …
What is Business Architecture? – Roger Burlton discusses BA
A lot of buzz about Business Architecture recently sounds suspiciously familiar but some of it sounds like a breath of fresh air. Ultimately it is about the business itself with …
Alec Sharp on his seminar – “Working With Business Processes”
Alec Sharp discusses his upcoming seminar: Working With Business Processes: Discovery, Assessment, Mapping, Analysis and Design taking place in London 28-29 April and 22-23 October 2015. Seminar Information is available …
Building Alignment for Rapid Change (Seminar)
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