Points of View
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Identifying Value Opportunities
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…
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Conference Presentations
We have delivered a number of presentations to audiences of enterprise architects and others. These presentations describe our approaches to people centric strategy and transformation. Enterprise Architecture Insights Europe – Bonn 2023 – a walkthrough of the evolutionary steps that took an enterprise architecture practice from a “policing” model to a supportive delegated authority model…
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What story are you telling?
Stasis A while ago, I was presented with a “solution” document. It started with an complex block diagram of a set of inter-related applications with a brief description of each below. This was followed by a description of the technical implementation of the “presentation layer” followed by “business logic layer”, etc. The problem statement was…
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Leadership Commitment
Leadership commitment is a critical success factor for any significant change. It is something that has depth and which endures. The commitment that organisations need is difficult at an individual and an executive team level:
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Strategy Increments
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…
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Forgive the style, the substance is worth the effort…
A major source of frustration of many technologists and architects is the tragedy of the victory of style over substance. Many of us fail to get our key messages over to those that matter. Many of us struggle to articulate our message in way that others understand: It is clear that we often need to…