Alec Sharp discusses his upcoming seminar: Working With Business Processes: Discovery, Assessment, Mapping, Analysis and Design taking place in London 28-29 April and 22-23 October 2015. Seminar Information is available …
Building Alignment for Rapid Change (Seminar)
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One of the key issues I see with any project based upon the Microsoft SharePoint Platform is the significant lack of business value they actually ever deliver despite the promises …
Why 99% Accuracy May Not be Enough When Analysing Big Data
When you’re analysing huge amounts of Big Data, an algorithm that’s 99% accurate may not be sufficient. We use Bayes’ theorem to explain why you need better algorithms and better-quality …
The Data Model Scorecard Category 4 of 10:
How Well Does the Model Leverage Generic Structures? An application’s flexibility and data quality depend quite a bit on the underlying data model. In other words, a good data model …
Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Data?
We live in an age where all businesses are generating data, and harvesting data at the same time. The flow of information, and the speed that it is created, have …
Developing Your Own Business Analysis Frame of Reference
I recently presented at the European Business Analysis Conference in London on the topic of understanding the business problem. This article is a follow up to that presentation which could …
Is Enterprise Architecture Completely Broken?
Remember Milton, the red stapler guy from the movie Office Space? Useless to his company, he had been laid off years before, but due to an unexplained glitch, he was …