Business

Nowadays time to market might be the most important deliverable that the business expects from IT. When I was discussing the challenges the business is facing with IT 15 or 20 years ago the cost of IT were always top of the list. Today the cost are still important but the number one complaint is […]

From my experience there are three main sources of insights that can deliver huge value and are mostly untapped in a lot of companies. They all start with a C and although I have a background in this industry – Consultants are not included in the list. Colleagues In most of my consulting projects

Let’s talk about benefit monitoring. Most organizations will require you to promise some kind of value when spending money. The questions is how the organization is quantifying benefits and how the follow-up works. Before we get into the benefits of benefit monitoring we should define what we mean by benefit monitoring. This is my personal

There is a very simple textbook process on how a strategic decision becomes reality: In reality this is what one might get as a high-level strategy definition: Our strategy is to develop new innovative products across all regions so that we excite our customers with new experiences at a low cost point. While this sounds

McKinsey developed the ten timeless tests for strategy (Chris Bradley et al., 2011). In the following I will not go into the business-related question as this is very well described in the article above. I will rather focus on the architecture-specific viewpoint and how we can use these tests to challenge a business strategy and