Use the Universal Business Analysis Planning Checklist as You Plan Your Business Analysis Approach. Every project is a unique, temporary endeavor. The business process management, regulatory compliance and digital transformation …
A Lesson In Visual Storytelling
Let me set the scene. About six years ago, not long after the book Stories That Move Mountains was published, I was at a big technology company’s internal company event. …
Signals In The Noise
Fact 1: process management seeks to improve organizational performance.Fact 2: to manage a process effectively, its performance must be measured reliably. Roger Tregear, Principal Advisor, TregearBPMRoger presented a workshop at …
The Business Case for a Common Language: Not “If,” but “What and When?”
1. Opportunity While most people don’t think about it very often, common language is essential to day-in, day-out commerce. Companies and others[1] employ standards to ensure that a meter is …
Assess – Listening To The Voices
I am increasingly drawn to the term active process management, not just as an interesting adjectival phrase or a cryptic comment about an implied sense of frequency, but as a …
National Air Traffic Services Enterprise Architecture: Opportunity In Challenging Times
During even the most challenging times such as the Covid-19 pandemic, effective use of Enterprise Architecture (EA) can guide sound strategy, planning, and refining of processes within an organisation can …
What Every Business and IT Leader Can Learn From Africa About Digital Transformation
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 …
Constructing The “Right” Strategy Team
Strategy is about setting targets for the future, choosing the right direction based on insight to market and resources. Strategy leads to strategy execution, but strategy execution is about delivery, …
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 …
Moving Enterprise Architecture Frameworks into the Future
In our first post “Origins of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks”, we discussed the origination of frameworks and the context for enterprise architecture frameworks, but in the enterprises of today, digital transformation, …
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 …
Developing and Adopting a Common Language: What’s Required from an Organizational Perspective
Executive Summary It seems obvious enough that companies, government agencies and non-profits would benefit from a common language. Without it, coordinating work is more difficult, computers “don’t talk,” and basic …
How Airbus Leverages Data For Growth
Data at the heart of business strategy With the goal of drastically reducing design times, Airbus has launched a transformation program to find efficiencies across the development cycle of new …
Process is not Just Hot, It Seems to be Truly Sizzling Right Now!
After years of playing the poor relation to other technology trends, the process market is once again a hot topic as a result of new investments and the need to …
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 …
BizOps – Enhancing DevOps with Continuous Business Feedback
IT organizations are increasingly adopting development approaches that allow for flexible and emergent requirements, faster development, automation of processes, frequent updates, and operational excellence. Agile development is one key aspects …
Measuring Business Process Performance
This was the question asked of me recently: “If you separately set KPIs for each of the processes in a process architecture, how do you know that they are properly …
The NESTT – Rapid Process Redesign at Queensland University of Technology
The digital age has triggered a shift from an economy centered around people to an economy of people. As a consequence new customer engagement channels, business models, revenue streams, sourcing …
Top 6 Business Process Modeling Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
There are many examples of very good business process models out there. They can be found in academic sources, online, tutorials, and product demonstrations. However, in the real world … …
How To Easily And Consistently Map Life Event Journeys
We look at life event journey mapping – what it is, and how we standardise the maps across different life events. At the DTA, we have been exploring life events …