Back during the industrial revolution, the focus was on “output” – everything made by machines and people working like machines too. They clocked in hours to create quantity all day …
The Golden Age of Innovation and the Dark Age of Information Privacy
At election time, surveillance and anti-terrorism are quite rightly high on the political agenda. The EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not. However, for readers of this IRM blog, the …
The Art of Collaboration
For the last five years I have traveled this wonderful journey of learning Ryukyu Kempo Martial Arts. It’s an Okinawan, Japanese style of martial arts with a focus on self …
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. …
Business Analysts Can Enable Innovation
“If I had asked my clients what they wanted, they probably would have said a faster horse.” Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor Company This infamous Henry Ford quote …
Business is a Relationship – Using Business Relationship Managers to Converge the Business and IT
Many of my consulting clients have expressed their challenges regarding business-IT alignment. However, there are many that believe the word “alignment” should be replaced with the word “convergence.” What does …
Business Analysis: Turning Gloop into Concrete
Business analysis is often seen as a technical skill. The business analyst builds process and data models, writes precise requirements, makes requirements traceable, estimates the effort involved, and so on. …
You Must Become a Disruptor
We have seen more change in the last 18 months than in the previous ten years. It feels as if the time to implement change has dropped to almost nothing …
The Mythic Business Analyst: The Next Evolution of the BA Role
I have been interested in myths and legends for as long as I can remember, thrilling to the adventures of the heroes and heroines that battled the forces of darkness, …
BA Communities of Practice – Sweet Success Cannot be Achieved Alone
The term “Communities Of Practice” has not been around for that long in comparison to the word “Community” for sure, and the notion of the latter has been prevalent long …
Paper on the Case of Customer Recruitment Processes: Dynamic Evolution of CRM Resource
This study is borne from a concern that organisations continue to invest significantly in CRM systems that are redundant by the time they are launched. This is because these systems …
It’s Time To Ditch The Bridge
I suspect many people reading this article will, at some time in their career, have had the challenge of explaining what business analysis is. We’ve all had that dreaded moment …
Volere – the Evolution of Successful Requirements Techniques
It is more than 20 years since the first Volere Requirements Specification was launched. Since that beginning so much has happened and so many people in so many industries have …
Business Analysis – The What, The How And The Why – A South African Perspective
Saratoga’s Mohamed Bray is a business analyst who wears many hats. From consulting with other analysts and project managers to contributing to the establishment of the profession in South Africa, …
Themes from a Chief Data Officer Forum – the 180 day perspective
Time flies as Virgil observed some 2,045 years ago. A rather shorter six months back I attended the inaugural IRM(UK) Chief Data Officer Executive Forum and recently I returned for …
The Data Governance – Business Dialogue
Productive relationships are based on establishing a shared understanding, then maintaining a meaningful dialogue. For data governance initiatives this means going beyond merely imposing policies and standards and engaging in …