Digital transformation is playing a key role in Africa’s development and is a driving force behind the continent’s fastest-growing economies. Elsbeth McSorley, MEGA InternationalMEGA International will be sponsoring the virtual …
Speaking Publicly About Something I Know Nothing About: Horizontal vs Vertical User Story Slicing
After years of working as a Business Analyst, I have always wanted to try my hand at public speaking in order to share some insights on topics I feel passionate …
How to Explain What Enterprise Architecture Is to Non-EAs
Greetings from an Enterprise Architecture newbie. When I started at Ardoq a couple of months ago, Enterprise Architecture (or EA as the cool kids call it) was a whole new …
Creating Synergies Between Business Analysts And Project Managers
At first glance it may seem that project managers and business analysts have conflicting objectives with one focused on project delivery and the other on solution delivery. But by unlocking …
Champion Diversity, Inclusivity and Change Across Your Organisation Through Establishing a Change Network
Working as a Change Management specialist one thing I encourage every organisation to do is to create an internal ‘Change Network’ as part of their change strategy. Why does this …
Business-Outcome-Driven Enterprise Architecture: What Benefits?
Enterprise architecture programs are often perceived as being too long and academic while requiring lots of manual work and producing limited value. Enterprise Architecture also relies on frameworks that may …
Organizational Debt — A Necessary Evil
Regardless of their state of growth, all companies face a certain level of organizational debt, which can paralyze them if it’s not kept under control. Alina Ghiarasim, Lead Business Analyst, EndavaAlina …
Presenting Over The Web
It is a feature of our new reality that we are increasingly communicating through disembodied means (I’m talking web rather than Ouija board here) and this can cause problems for …
How Your Business Can Quickly Adopt a Customer First Strategy
Every few days there seems to be another customer service disaster that fills the newspapers and goes viral on social media. These usually happen when an organisation does not adopt …
How Will It Work? The Future How Viewpoint.
In a previous article Business Analysis Viewpoints we discussed a number of ways of looking at systems. The intention of these viewpoints is to make it easier to see and …
Unaccustomed As I Am To Public Speaking Part 5
This article in my series on Presentation Skills I am going to look at something that all presenters have to face and overcome… I’m talking about nerves, stress, the heebie-jeebies, …
Transforming Ideas Into Outcomes At Market-Speed – A Series of Four Articles on Investing in Change
How Ideas Turn into Outcomes The Outcomes Your Enterprise Creates Come From a Mash-Up of Many Ideas Let’s begin with how everything ends, and talk about outcomes. People create outcomes …
Every Transformation Needs A NED
In my experience life as a Non-Executive Director is a difficult balancing act. Staying close enough to the business to understand where it is and how it is working – …
The Danger Of Jumping To A “Solution” And The Importance Of Pre-Project Problem Analysis
We’ve probably all worked in situations where the word ‘problem’ is seen as a dirty word. This is understandable to some extent—after all, discussing a problem situation seems a lot …
Unaccustomed As I Am To Public Speaking Part 4
In my last post I discussed crafting the structure of a presentation. In this post I’m going to take you through some of my thoughts regarding how your deck should …
Ghosts Of Tom’s Past, Present And Future
The world is evolving, business is evolving, consulting is evolving. This will never stop. So those organisations that don’t constantly adapt will wither and die. Target Operating Model (TOM) design …
Have You Ever Jumped from an Airplane? Journey of Delivering a Complex Project/Program in Public Sector
Imagine – you’re on an airplane flying at 13,000 feet. From this perspective, the world below looks far away; objects on the ground are small and out of focus, clouds …
The World Doesn’t Need Another Roaring Twenties!
I was slow on the uptake, and it took me a while to realise why several people seemed to be going to parties dressed either as flappers or Al Capone …
Mind The Gap – Incorporating the Change Agenda Into Scaled Agile Approaches
We are looking forward to sharing our experiences and insights into the nuances around holistic change and how to incorporate it with scaled agile approaches. Too many agile approaches focus …
5 Vital Aspects of Smooth Change Management When Implementing New Software
Changes to business software and underlying business processes will elicit a variety of responses from employees. Many will embrace change, while others will resist. A significant part of change management …
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