Organisational Charts Problematic?
In some companies, ask a manager what their department does and instead of a capability model or a process model out pops the org. chart out on to to the desk. It represents to them a statement of...
View ArticleStrategy to Execution Business Architecture +
I have been leading business architecture courses now since 2008 and in the main this delivery has been around the development of target operating models. This has stemmed from a demand from senior...
View ArticleProcess or Outcomes?
Having worked a fair bit in the business process management world I have myself, and have certainly worked with others, who get a bit obsessed with process. Process is important, no doubt, in many...
View ArticleUsing Levels in Business Architecture
One of the most frequently asked questions on business modelling is how many levels and what should be modelled at each level. The Zachman framework gives us some basic clues on this suggesting that...
View ArticleSoftware sellers need to consider training as much as the software itself.
Selling software as a service is a growing business model as software seller’s move from one off license sales to ongoing revenue through pay for use. In this so called “Software as a Service (SAAS)...
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Operating Models All Look The Same!
Operating ModellingIf you follow I.T based frameworks the you might think that. In reality a model serves a purpose and that purpose is more important than following a prescribed standard. Modelling...
View ArticleBusiness Analysis Front of House or Back Stage
When you go to a show you want to see the production. In fact the mystery of how things are done is part of the experience. Knowing the trade secrets often spoils the show. A stage show, or film for...
View ArticleAgile Training
The title suggests some training in Agile approaches, bit of DSDM maybe, SCRUM or Xtreme Programming but what we are talking about is being Agile in training delivery!Applying lean or Agile principles...
View ArticleBusiness Architecture " Don't boil the Ocean"
Appropriate modelling to serve stakeholders and communicate particular things is becoming much more the preferred approach than modelling the whole enterprise at all levels of detail.The business case...
View ArticleOperating Model Canvas New Book: Andrew Campbell
I have just a few hours reviewing a book on Operating Models for Andrew Campbell of Ashridge Business School, he runs courses on operating model development too; so we have a common interest in sharing...
View ArticleJohn Lewis and Marks & Spencer Executives working up from the ranks - "Lifers...
Linked had one of those congratulating posts last week in reference to the promotion of Nicholds Paula Nicholds to the position of first female MD in John Lewis. The theme of the post was "look a women...
View ArticleEA reclaims itself?
Linkedin is full of posts with EA's trying to reclaim the title this is all sponsored by one particular well meaning individual.The posts are asking to claim back the fact that EA is all about I.T....
View ArticleStandards in Business Archecture - "A Land Grab" ?
The other day I came across a list of myths about business architecture that were being dispatched into the "shredder" with vigour.One myth that was being torn down was. “There is no commonly defined...
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New Canvas
The Book Available from Amazon.The book operating model canvas written by Andrew Campbell et all and published last year by Van Haren, it is a fine colourful read, however it needs more substance...
View ArticleProcess mapping is not always universally a good thing.
Process management is promoted as the answer to most operational difficulties. Get stuff mapped, understand the measures that deliver what stakeholders required and reduce the variability. Tool vendors...
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T34 Poznan (Posen-Ferstung) Poland. Military Capability
When looking at kit like this you start to think about capabilities in a different light. Military analogies and historical case studies help things make a lot more sense to "services" business people,...
View ArticleThe Cheshire Cat and Operating Models
On reviewing an article on operating model choices - I researched a phrase which is a slight mis-quote from Lewis Carroll - ‘if you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there’. It...
View Article2019 A New Year and a promise.to post more.
This blog has been running for since 2013 and I should post more, I know. It is easy to forget or focus on other things. So let me start the year with better intentions with a new brief post.As I start...
View ArticleStrategy a difficult lesson.
Traditional strategy theories based on the VMOST type approach and those of Porter and Mintzberg present unconvincing output among students. Mission, goals and vision are easily stated but the problem...
View ArticleSenior Management don't get AGILE.
On a recent Twitter discussion a tweeter was complaining about senior engagement and asking where senior managers get their information and attitude about AGILE.I wrote back and said that software...
View ArticleUsing tools properly
business studies is full of two way grids ,matrices and canvasses of one type or another, These range from well known acronym driven tools like PESTLE SWOT to the now famous business model canvas,As a...
View ArticleComplex and Complicated
I was first exposed to systems thinking back in 2001 when working with some guys at Detica. The idea of a system of interactions with feed back loops and knock on consequences is fairly clear. Peter...
View ArticleComplex and complicated - More depth
Some weeks ago I mentioned the two types of systems - complex and complicated - a topic stimulated due to a client ask. In the meantime several colleagues pointed to the Cynefin framework by Dave...
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Methods seem to be the answer to all business change issues, follow a methodology and all is well. As the years pass I see repackaged ideas with new fancy names, promoted by fancy graphics and...
View ArticleTechnology V Requirements the Chicken and Egg dilemma
A recent tweet from a business analyst said,“We need to change the system so that it works for you, instead of you working for the system.”As much as this is laudable in the true business analytical...
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