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One of my new favorite books is, Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, by Jeanee W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson. A big focus of the book is on execution and how to build a strong foundation for execution. The key is an effective enterprise architecture. Improve Your Business Agility, Achieve Higher Profits, and Lower …
Your company’s operating model is the level of business process integration and business process standardization across business units for delivering goods and services. The operating model is one of the three keys to building a strong foundation for execution (The three keys are: operating model, enterprise architecture, and IT engagement model.) The key benefits for …
This is an article that I originally wrote for the Architecture Journal to walk through how we created “a language for software architecture.” Since the article is no longer available, I’m making it available here for old time’s sake. The goal at the time was to create a simple way to work through solution design …
One of the challenges my General Manager put on my plate, was to tell a simple story, as simply as possible, about the essence of doing Enterprise Strategy. Here is what I ended up with: The way I told the story is … We use scenarios to scope meaningful chunks of change (vs. boil the …
The big idea is that IT exposes it’s functionality as “services” to the business. When speaking to the business, we can talk about business capabilities. When talking to IT, we can talk to the IT capabilities. This is a mental model we often use when connecting business and IT. In this model, you can see …
