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 …
Advanced Portfolio Management: Goals-Driven Investment in Change
The world of business change just keeps on changing. Turning goals into outcomes at market-speed, through dynamic and co-ordinated investments, is now core to every enterprise’s choices and results. Change …
Conversation #17 — David Beckham, Senior Business Analyst, Aviva
I met David at the IRM Innovation, Business Change & Transformation Conference Europe last year and was intrigued by his unique combination of experience — not only is he a veteran of a great many …
Agile At Scale: From Product & Service To “Served Outcomes”
Being product-centric is at the core of the agile discipline; It comes along with the notion of Minimum-Viable Product (MVP[1]). To support MVPs, architects are struggling to provide corresponding MVAs: …
What is data-driven EA?
This expression is used so often, but do we take its meaning for granted? Let’s go back to basics and explain the importance of being data-driven. Sometimes, it’s hard to see …
A Packet Of Seeds And A Shovel Is Not Gardening
Organisations might have many of the components parts of good process-based management, but still struggle to make it work—a packet of seeds and a shovel is not gardening. This paper …
Interview with Simon Jones, Head of Innovation, Team Sky
If there’s one organisation whose name is a byword for innovation right now, it’s probably Team Sky. In just six years, this professional cycling team has achieved what many initially …
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 …
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, …
Change is a constant… not!
“Change is a constant!” I have lost count of how many times I have been saying that, with eyes rolling up and body shrugging in resignation to the inescapable action …
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 …