A recent report by Forrester, revealed that more than half of companies with 10% year on year revenue growth have appointed Chief Data Officers (CDOs). Although overall only 45% of …
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 …
The Potential for Digital Britain
I recently hosted guests visiting my team and I from HM Treasury, and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. It was a short visit and one that reminded me of the importance of …
Application Portfolio Rationalization
It is interesting how certain topics just never seem to grow old and remain interesting – like speaking about the weather. Topics like these even exist in architecture. Application Rationalization …
Top 10 MDM Strategic Planning Assumptions
Because master data is required to provide competitive advantage, increase customer service levels & drive new product/service combinatorial market offerings, Master Data Management (MDM) must embrace Big Data analytics in …
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 …
Requirements in an Agile World – Webinar by James Robertson
This talk starts with the idea of the agile world. That is, the world we live in is constantly evolving and changing, presenting both problems and opportunities. The agile project …
The Five Traits of a Successful Digital Leader
Innovation is a dirty word… which is why we started to call it disruption. Today, disruption stands for the new digital adversaries that are aggressively entering your market space at …
Twenty years on, and stakeholders still don’t speak architect…
Twenty years ago, the US Congress signed an Act known as The Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA). The Act made it a legal requirement for US Federal agencies to appoint a CIO …
Are you Suffering from EA Model Sickness?
Working within the field of enterprise architecture, my team and I sadly encounter the disease ‘model sickness’ or see evidence of being ‘model sick’ all too often! This serious, yet …
Data Quality – Why I Do What I Do
Data quality and governance might be one of the most unrecognized professions. Oftentimes, I find myself faced with the question “What do you do?” The underlying question is also “Why …
Happy Birthday Data Warehouse—Thirty Today!
Well, perhaps not exactly today! But, it was way back in 1986 when I and colleagues in IBM Europe first defined a data warehouse architecture for internal use in managing …
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 …
Data Governance: “Where’s the Money, Honey?”
Becoming a data-driven company: what’s not to like about it? Many organizations are embarking on their own “Big Data” journey, and many are finding that it’s not obvious how to …
Beware the Bimodal Disaster
As enterprises around the world struggle with their digital transformation efforts, many are finding that their innovative digital teams are moving much faster than their hidebound IT organizations. Rather than …
Reflections on Michael Porter’s Article on Digitization and IoT
The development of intelligent, connected products are radically transforming our operations and how we compete. Michael Porter for decades has been the the world’s most successful and influential business strategist. …
To Be, or Not To Be – Why EAs are also Scenario Planners
Enterprise Architects are valued for their impact on reality. To achieve that impact, they have to imagine some not-yet-real future, compare it with today, figure out how best to get …
A Business Analyst’s Approach to Lean Strategy Execution
Business stakeholders want projects to deliver fast. They often come to the project team with a clear view of the solution, expecting a quick start and not leaving much room …
How to kickoff your team project: what research says
How to kickoff your team project: what research says In this post, I’ll explore some of what the research says about creating great teams, and what you should include in …
What’s in a Name?
In my previous article for IRM Connects I detailed my opinions on what the future may hold for the Business Analyst profession and this issue continues to occupy my idle …