Last year in the run up to Christmas I posted a comment on this blog about the Charles Dickens novella a Christmas Carol. In my role as a technology marketer within the business process marketplace, I frequently talk about the importance of businesses modeling and analyzing past, present and future states. In the blog post I [...]

The financial regulator unveils new rules for banks on approving mortgages to make sure customers are not able to borrow more than they can afford.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today (19 Dec 2011) announced plans to prevent a return of the risky mortgage lending seen in boom times, by ensuring that common sense standards continue [...]

It’s not very often that I get the opportunity to combine writing about my professional career in technology marketing with my passion of motorsports and Formula 1 but on a few occasions I’ve had the opportunity to draw a parallel.
Recently, I was asked to present at my former University on the subject of aligning sales [...]

Thankfully to the relief of millions of users worldwide, Blackberry services seem to have finally been restored to a normal operating service.
The situation though over the past few days is not one Blackberry makers RIM will wish to remember.  Its highly regarded brand, which was ranked 36th in the The BrandFinance® Top 500 Telecom Brands [...]

Reportedly, over 1 billion people rely on Microsoft Office either at work, home or within an educational establishment.
Whether this statistic is entirely true I don’t know, but what I do know is that Microsoft Word is by far the most popular application for generating documentation. Following on from the success of Casewise’s V-Modeler solution which enables you [...]

Ultimately the only reason to take the time and put in the effort is so that you can ask smarter questions and get smarter answers. Business Architecture will provide you with a decision support system that understands the complexity of your organization. All too often when making one change you risk breaking many other parts.
Your [...]

Often Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is seen as a check-the-box exercise, whereas it is key to keeping you in business and your executives out of jail! These are the two things that rank highest on most executive agendas. Of course it can also contribute considerable overhead in the running of your business.

Much overhead comes [...]

Sometimes when working on architecture initiatives we forget what business is about – winning and retaining customers who spend in ways that are profitable for our organization. If we don’t do this then we have no business. So the reality is that a key purpose of our Business Architecture has to be to help deliver [...]

Having stored, connected and communicated information in our data store for sharing, we now go further and use the information in ways that enables people within the organization to collaborate. Organizations around the globe are seeking smarter ways of enabling people within and across departments, functions and teams to work together. As a part of [...]

This step addresses a significant issue in business – how to link different functional groups within the business. It connects different initiatives within those areas and enables greater reuse. People often talk about Business/IT alignment – we suggest this is flawed. Instead we need to integrate them! There is no such thing as IT projects, [...]