Leah is leading the design of a new case management system for five different social services areas that often serve the same clients. Currently each service area operates as a …
What Customer First Strategies Really Are (And what they’re not!)
Everyone is talking about customer first strategies and why they are important. However, walking the talk is a different matter! An interesting article on NewMR by Ray Poynter prompted this post. …
Digitized ≠ Digital
Over the four years that we have been studying companies’ digital transformations, we have found that different people mean different things when they refer to a digital transformation. Currently, some …
Ten Things an Architect Does to Add Value
One of the questions I often get is “What does an architect do?” Although there are many day-to-day activities like attending too many meetings, the following list gets to the …
BPM Maturity, An Organizational Superpower
Processes Deliver Every organization makes promises to customers and other stakeholders. Such promises are its reason for existence and are shaped as value propositions in the organizational strategy. Roger Tregear, …
Lifecycle Management – Let The Sunshine In
Enterprise Architecture is about the ‘landscape’ of your organisation. A landscape of humans and IT and the behaviour of both. These landscapes have become very complex. In itself that complexity …
Process Improvement – Its All About The Benefits
How about if you could easily see the benefits of your process improvement work? Would that help your organisation make better changes? Andrew Sanford, Director, We Are Lean And AgileWe …
Enterprise Architecture: Exploring a Chemistry Metaphor
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 …
The Curse of BPMN: Process Modeling for the Digital Era
If you’re an old consultant like me, when you hear the phrase ‘process modeling,’ you probably think of a group of people in a stuffy conference room, arguing over how …
Architecting the Digital Business Platform
Is your organization planning, initiating or undergoing a digital transformation initiative? More than likely, since ever organization today understands that they must address the new digital economy or fall behind. …
Advanced Portfolio Management: Goals-Driven Investment in Change
The world of business change just keeps on changing. Turning goals into outcomes at market-speed, through dynamic and co-ordinated investments, is now core to every enterprise’s choices and results. Change …
Conversation #17 — David Beckham, Senior Business Analyst, Aviva
I met David at the IRM Innovation, Business Change & Transformation Conference Europe last year and was intrigued by his unique combination of experience — not only is he a veteran of a great many …
Architecting Your Capabilities and Processes: It’s All About Being Able to Get Things Done
There is a strong current interest in Business Architecture that has been brewing in the last little. To deal with it at Process Renewal group we have been developing methods …
What Your Change Portfolio Says About Your Enterprise
For Portfolio Managers, one of the many skills that come with experience is the ability to read an enterprise’s Change Portfolio. Aside from the individual projects, the portfolio reveals – …
Old EA is dying. What’s next?
New EA you need to know. Learn how the shift from manually drawn architecture diagrams to automated and data-driven ecosystem architecture is transforming the value and role of enterprise architecture …
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. …
Making Models More Meaningful
As a kid I always loved making models. Every square inch of the ceiling in our attic was covered in Airfix kits, and I remember as a teenager wondering whether …
The Effective Enterprise Architecture Team
The Value of EA Can Be Elusive In our seminars, the most common question is how to demonstrate the value of architecture. When we ask ‘value to whom?’, we often …
Process Architectures & Organization Charts
In my working life I spend a lot of time with client organizations discovering and capturing useful models of their process architectures. In every country, industry sector, organization type and …
New Perspectives on Architecture Reviews
Since the emergence of software architecture as a discipline in the early 1990s, much attention has been given to its use in evaluating competing solution options. The IEEE recommended practice …