The world is changing. No – the world as we knew it in IT and data warehousing has changed. Big Data, Agile, and the Cloud are hot topics. But companies still …
Data Literacy Is An Organizational Practice
We don’t acquire the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic by ourselves or for ourselves alone. We largely read what others have written, and write for others to read. In …
Are We Entering The Last Chapter Of The History Of Analytics?
This week I gave a TED style presentation on the History of Analytics to a bunch of our Digital Solution Architects… 20 minutes, a whiteboard, and the truth, what’s not …
Turning Data From A Cost To A Benefit
Data has been a hot topic for organisations for some time. Now that volumes of data are increasing exponentially, the importance of good data to allow organisations to achieve their …
How A Business Analyst Can Help Identify and Fix Problems With Your Company’s Business Processes
As a company, you need business processes. With them, you can define the set of activities that’ll be required to be completed to achieve your business goals. Not only that, …
Making Chaos Visible, in Order to Solve It.
As borders are eroded and the speed of business, as well as change increases, it can often feel like a struggle to find dedicated time to untangle the complex problems …
The Future of Business Driven Software Development
It contains diamonds, boxes, arrows and affects customer experience – what is it? No, it is not a wedding ring … it is a flowchart to predefine workflow. Pre-defined workflow …
The Leader’s Data Manifesto
All business leaders need to know something about their finances, their people, and the running of their organization. They understand that people and money have value and have to be …
What Shapes My Thinking: Digital Operating Model & Technology Strategy
As a CTO & Chief Architect, what shapes my thinking on operating model design & technology strategy for the modern digital world? I shared some of my insights when I …
What Is Disruption?
Over 74% of CEO’s see their companies as disruptors… but what does disruption mean? In a recent KPMG survey 74% of CEO’s saw their companies as disruptors. Today the word …
Data Pitch is Open for Applications!
Data Pitch are excited to announce the open call for startup applications, which will run over the next two months and close on the 1st October 2017. Applications can be …
Anyone Can Have an Architectural Idea
Anyone, anywhere, and at anytime, can have an idea that could impact your enterprise’s architecture. They might be an enterprise architect, but are most probably not. Depending on the value …
Why Presentation Skills Are Important for Business Analysts
I’m delighted to be presenting at the upcoming European BA Conference in London on a topic that is dear to my heart; Presentation Skills. This is a topic that would …
Are You Making an IMPACT?
If you are not making an IMPACT, what’s the point in doing? This was the question Nigel Risner posed at the Annual BDIA Conference in June. How often do you …
Business Analyst of the Year Award 2017
The search for 2017’s Business Analyst of the Year is almost complete with the closing date for this year’s entries now reached. The Award is sponsored by AssistKD and IIBA …
Practical Process: All in the Mind
Too many BPM initiatives fail. We’ve got to do better. In this Column, I discuss an important area where considerable improvement can be realized. Process-based management is not achieved and sustained …
Data Quality and the GDPR
What does the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have to do with data quality? Plenty! Simply put, high quality data means that you have the right information available at the …
A Great Work Culture Demands More than Fixing Bad Processes
I have found that the word “process” can have a very polarizing effect on people. There are those who like to follow a process and feel lost when one is …
10 Ways Your Business Customer Can Damage Your Project (and what to do about them)
I’m excited to be giving a talk at the Business Analysis Conference Europe in September. I enjoy giving talks, sharing knowledge and ideas, and the discussion in the Q and …
Developing Your Capability Architecture: It’s All About Being Able to Get Things Done
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 …