When I was working in consulting I had the luxury of a large group of back office colleagues being focused on creating and modifying PowerPoint slides. This was in particular helpful when working with and re-arranging capability maps. As I am a huge fan of capability maps I also use them today on a regular […]
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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
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Where should the Chief Enterprise Architect sit within the organization? The two most common places where you will find Enterprise Architecture is either reporting into the CIO or into one of the direct reports to the CIO – like the head of application development. In the data from the Enterprise Architecture Survey with more than
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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
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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
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In the realm of business strategy, the concept of a sales funnel is well-known. To sell a product, you need to guide potential customers through stages of awareness, interest, desire, and ultimately, purchase. Enterprise Architecture (EA) faces a similar challenge. We’re not selling cars, but rather, a vision of a more efficient, resilient, and innovative
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In the post from last week I shared some thoughts on business capabilities and why they are important. Let’s discuss about how to use them. Before talking about how to use them here is my definition of a business capability: Business capabilities are atomic elements that in different combinations can deliver all the business processes
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As this is a topic of much debate in theory and practice I would like to emphasize the rational why something like business capabilities is necessary for most enterprise architecture setting: Grouping In Enterprise Architecture a key decision to make is to group resources together. These resources could be Labeling We need labels that signal
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