I am guessing some of you have worked with some planning activities for where to move the business next. Be it your next yearly budget, defining the goals for the next strategy overhaul, or some form of a business systems planning. People spend too much time, and effort in hypothesizing some future according to their projections [...]
Making Enterprise Performance Useful
I reckon most of my the people visiting this blog know one or two things about enterprise performance (not that I am an expert here). Well, although trying to, systematically, formalize a business strategy and then executing it had its root since the early 20th century but with the focus on the finical runs as [...]
No IT for Old Men
It has been 15 years since I joined the workforce. At that time, the business world seemed really strange to me as my interaction with it was mostly transactional in nature. I exchanged a value with another one (well mostly money from my part). But for a computer science graduate, it only seemed right that [...]
Architectural Thinking
Pragmatic EA, FEAF, TOGAF, Zachman and the list goes on and on and on. There seems to be no end to what defines an EA framework, and I have always been advocate, and vocal, on first looking into the business and then mapping everything else starting from the value proposition and the influencing factors. So, [...]
Making a Case for Enterprise Architecture
Well, if there is a thing that hasn't changed since the time I first engaged in an enterprise architecture work, more than ten years, is that everyone wants to have an enterprise architecture office or unit, but no one knows why they need it! At the time, the 2008~09, I was working as a low [...]