
As enterprise architects, it is too easy to be led by business demand that is not aligned with strategic business imperatives. Sometimes these imperatives are not explicitly identified in the strategic documents that circulate. Where are the value opportunities? The start point for understanding value opportunities is the value chain. We generalise the original model…

We don’t believe in long wordy strategy documents. The first thing to produce is a set of strategic business imperatives that the technology strategy will address. We will study the business strategy. However, we often find that it does not give enough information to derive the technology strategy. Our job and our expertise is not…