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 …
The World of Business Transformation
Business transformation might be a new term, but the idea behind it isn’t. Businesses have always had to evolve to survive. As “transformation” has become a buzzword in recent years, …
Interview with Gero Decker, CEO of Signavio
Gero Decker, co-founder & CEO of Signavio, tells us about his experience as entrepreneur founding a BPM start-up and shares a piece of advice he received early in his career. …
Predicting the Future With Our Robot Overlords
So, you want to predict the future, make the right calls and die happy? Well, you’ll need to build a robot overlord to help you. You can get a sense …
Developing your Process Architecture: It’s all About Your Work
Introduction 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 …
Business Process Modelling Patterns
Reusable process model fragments for business users. The idea of a pattern language, which originates in a 1977 book about buildings and their architecture, translates easily to other kinds of …
Architecture Is Architecture Is Architecture
In 1980, we were having difficulty transforming the Enterprise Strategy into implemented systems, the instantiated Enterprise, because the strategies tended to be articulated in a somewhat abstract form like “Make …
Synthesizing your Architecture’s Strategic Guidance
Introduction 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 …
Putting Process at the Centre of Business Management
Enabling the increasingly impossible demand to do even more with even less. We traditionally manage organisations via the template laid out by the organisation chart. Yet not one of the entities …