Introduction This is the tenth article in my Business Architecture Essentials series. In article nine I dealt with a fast way of comparing the strategic intent North Star of our vision, goals and objectives as the basis for a high level business process centric approach to prioritizing the highest gain and highest pain buckets of…
Introduction This is the ninth article in my Business Architecture Essentials series. To date we have tackled business ecosystem dynamics, stakeholder and strategy issues as well as establishing a number of foundational architectural models that organize our work and our assets, tangible and otherwise. In the last article I dealt with the tricky topic of…
Introduction This is the eighth article in my Business Architecture Essentials series. With sufficient treatment of the topics that have been tackled so far it is time to deal with the question of how we can measure what we have defined. How can we tell if our Business Model is working? How do we know…
I consider myself very fortunate in my line of business to have met a lot of very talented people, people who truly care about the business they’re in and the goals that the company collectively is trying to achieve. These are the people who get assigned to important projects, get invited to most of the…
I have found that the word “process” can have a very polarizing effect on people. There are those who like to follow a process and feel lost when one is not clearly defined for them, and there are those who feel unreasonably bound by the process, and generally dislike having to conform to it. I…
In the sixth article of this series (I.e. the previous one) I described a business stakeholder relationship and business concept (object) approach to defining the capability map, adding to the business process architecture from article 5 earlier. It is important to re-iterate that all of these models define key Figure 1 concepts of the business.…
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 frameworks that professionals have been looking at for inspiration. The first article was intended to provide an overview of the field and it introduced an…
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 frameworks that professionals have been looking at for inspiration. The first article was intended to provide an overview of the field and it introduced…
Our recent article on how we, as process professionals, can fundementaly change our designs to better engage Millennials was featured in the Huffington Post Business blog. For many of us who has been in the workforce for an extensive period of time and inherited cubicle workspaces and 9 to 5 jobs – movies and articles about fresh…
Just Published an article in collaboration with Doug Kirkpatrick, US Partner at NuFocus Strategic Group. The article was featured in the Huffington Post Business blog. All around us, we are witnessing a rapid disruption of traditional business models. The shift is from fierce individual competitors to those that feature multiple partners playing nicely together in a shared value network…