Prioritization Gridlock: Finding Your Way Out

How do we prioritize when priorities collide? Which comes first, then next? How can we navigate competing priorities? Prioritizing the strategic initiatives of the business capability roadmap is a key step before we can start executing strategy at the speed of business. Eisenhower’s urgent-important principle, also espoused by Stephen Covey, provides some guidance when it comes to individual […]

At The Speed Of Business: Strategy To Execution Through Business Architecture

New processes and systems are in place. But it is still difficult to get a key business report! The Chief Customer Officer is waiting for one and is becoming impatient. It looks like the whole business operations department has been marshalled to deliver it. He heard they needed to validate and reconcile masses of data! A new strategic […]

40,000 Professionals = Spectrum Of Business Transformations

More than 40,000 professionals in my extended network specialize in or have been part of business transformations. And what a bewildering array of initiatives you find! From removing process and systems duplications and inefficiencies to ERP replacements and consolidations. From company-wide strategy change and enablement to wholesale and radical process, systems and culture change. There are large and complex […]

Gain Advantage: Use Business Architecture

This post was originally published on LinkedIn. My next post will explain how we can apply the principles and ideas of Business Architecture in life. Making Sense of Complexity In Business Architecture — Who Cares? I describe what is becoming a normal situation for large and complex businesses today: “Many concurrent projects implementing business change […]