Design thinking is a customer centric approach putting the customer at the heart of the analysis to understand what they really need and uses techniques that focus on understanding them. …
Starting a Quality Program from Scratch
Small to medium-sized companies must continuously improve or die. Approximately 84% of all American companies have less than 50 employees. There must be more focus on helping the entrepreneurial organizations …
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 …
Reflections on IRM UK’s Business Change & Transformation Conference Europe 2019 (BCT2019)
My recent London visit was because I was speaking at the Business Change & Transformation Conference run by IRM. This was my third year and the event is certainly growing …
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 …
Be the Disruption You Want to See
Some people suggest this disruption will be along the lines of Airbnb. Others suggest it’ll be more like Uber. Regardless of the model, the presumption is that the disruptors will …
Are You New to Data Quality? Three Essential Best Practices
As I was growing up my mother was a fantastic seamstress. Depending on my needs at any point in time, she would make me school or casual clothes, a club …
The Five Pillars Of Master Data
As business transforms from analog to digital, from manual to automated, everything we touch turns to data. Companies of all types and sizes, across all markets and verticals are all …
Security In The Design Phase
Security is important in every stage of your project. From the Discovery Phase to the Deployment Phase, and everything in between. This post focuses on the second project phase: Design. …
Lessons From The Cyber Frontline: Addressing Critical Cyber Threats
Cybersecurity is currently dominating the news agenda for all the wrong reasons. The threat from cyber criminals is growing every day, whilst many firms are still struggling to implement effective …
Three Stumbling Blocks To Avoid In Your MDM Journey
Even with the best MDM solution, there are barriers to success are only overcome with the right strategy. It’s widely accepted that Master Data Management (MDM) technology is an essential …
Demystifying Augmented Analytics—Already?
“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be …
Do You Really Understand Your Business? Business Architecture To The Rescue!
In my years as a practicing Process and Business Architect I have seen ideas, models and methods evolve dramatically. We have always known that we need to get some grip …
Unaccustomed As I Am To Public Speaking Part 2
How’s your submission coming along? If you are intending to speak at this year’s BA Euro conference in September you’re running out of time to put your submission in to …
Architecting the Digital Business Platform
Is your organization planning, initiating or undergoing a digital transformation initiative? More than likely, since ever organization today understands that they must address the new digital economy or fall behind. …
Using Emotional Intelligence to Build an Influential BA Community of Practice
Business Analysts work with facts. It’s probably fair to say that our whole lives are dedicated to finding them out, whether it’s researching requirements, scoping problems or designing solutions (that …
Enterprise Data, Business Intelligence & Analytics Conference Europe 2018
The UK might be leaving the European Union, but there is a corner of London near Marble Arch where data professionals from across Europe will gather to share ideas and …
Change Overload!
The purpose of this paper is to share ideas for how we identify and estimate how much change is happening in our organisations mitigate the risk that there is so …
Unaccustomed as I am to Public Speaking…
For the last seven years I have spoken at the BA Europe Conference in London and it’s fair to say it has changed my life. It has provided me with …
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 …