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 …
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 …
Is EA Art or Science?
Or to put it another way, is your EA visually-driven or data-driven? Not that long ago, a colleague found himself in a conversation with a customer’s large EA department. They …
How Adding ArchiMate to Your Enterprise Architecture Toolkit Helps Give You the «Big Picture»
Adoption of the ArchiMate standard by the enterprise architecture world has grown rapidly in recent years. At the end of 2017 it made yet another step forward when it was …
GDPR: Beyond Compliance
Ask any business leader, anywhere, and they will proudly declare their organisation is compliant with the GDPR privacy regime which came into force on 25 May 2018. They will tell …
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 …
Agile At Scale: From Product & Service To “Served Outcomes”
Being product-centric is at the core of the agile discipline; It comes along with the notion of Minimum-Viable Product (MVP[1]). To support MVPs, architects are struggling to provide corresponding MVAs: …
What is data-driven EA?
This expression is used so often, but do we take its meaning for granted? Let’s go back to basics and explain the importance of being data-driven. Sometimes, it’s hard to see …
Agile at scale: Architecture in the Age of Complexity
There is no doubt that the agile trend is having a profound effect on software development practices, as well as on the organization of IT departments and beyond. The enterprise …
Ever Heard Of ROI When It Comes To Enterprise Architecture Frameworks?
Want to drive down the total cost of IT without damaging strategic business initiatives? Want to better connect your business operations to IT? Want to get an overview of how …
How to Invest in Agility
How agile your enterprise needs to be (meaning how quickly and easily it can do things) depends on what you want it to achieve. For some of your goals, you’re probably agile enough. For any …
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. …