Category Archives : Business Strategy
In the traditional enterprise architecture (EA) organization, architecture is developed by capturing the baseline and then defining the target architecture and roadmap to achieve the vision. Many times a future state is created by focusing on architecture framework(s) and by creating many drawings and maps spending countless amount of time and money. These approaches of […]
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Apple and IBM are redefining the mobile enterprise industry and their last year partnership’s announcement is designed to revolutionize industry and empower employees. Apple iPad Pro with 12.9-inch 2732 x 2048 resolution display, which will be available next month, is designed specifically to empower employees more creative and more productive — at a whole new scale. Imagine all […]
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Business and IT professionals know quite too well the importance of having intimate knowledge about the relationship of an enterprise business’s strategy, capability, processes, technology, information systems and other resources and how the organization deals with its resources, capabilities and customers. When working towards success, it is extremely important to understand that those are constantly […]
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Architecting for Customer Outcomes In my previous article “Architecting for Business Outcomes” , I talked about how capability modeling is used to achieve your business outcomes. This blog should have come first. Because without design for customer outcomes, there can never be any business outcomes. It is vitally important to bear customer outcomes in mind […]
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Capability modeling has become a standard approach for developing business architecture to transform and evolve an enterprise. Business capability modeling provides a shared understanding of the relative value of all business activities the business must perform to achieve the desired outcome. It is important to understand that the business goals and vision define the ends […]
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Some new features added for the upcoming release , scheduled for next month, are listed below: 1- Visualization of concept model (aka meta model) 2- Enhanced Visual Editor (renamed from Appearance Editor) 3- Sharing of maps data across team to promote collaboration You can share any map , configuration data or hierarchical data among your […]
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The application of technology to every aspect of business is revolutionizing the way it works. More importantly it is changing customer expectations of business. In the good old days, there were only foundational operations of business; manufacturing, sales & marketing, finance, logistics and people. But today, technology is the sixth and emerged as most essential […]
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The business capability model defines what a business does. It represents a blueprint of business capabilities for a business. The capability model (map) illustrates a set of distinct capabilities, typically organized in a hierarchical tree format, that are independent of organization structures, and resources (e.g. people, business processes, products and IT systems) but can be […]
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The task of mapping an enterprise’s goals, strategies, business capabilities, initiatives and its information systems is key for architecting any enterprise. Mapping a business is the act of capturing the big picture of an enterprise into blueprints depicting the current and or future state of the organization. An enterprise business blueprint is an abstract representation […]
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By: Syed Suhail Ahmad Scenario planning is a simple but vital tool in business. It is about painting a picture about a potential future in order to create a more informed and successful strategy. The arena of scenario planning came to the fore recently at the World Economic Forum where leaders discussed the vital […]
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