Author Archives: Andrew Campbell

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Ashridge Executive Education Focus on strategy and organisation Almost retired!

Design Principles that guide the design

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Andrew Campbell

I have already completed three blogs on the topic of design principles – design principles – how to get good ones, more on design principles and understanding design principles  .   But I was recently approached by my son, who is … Continue reading →

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What is “architecture” in business design?

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Andrew Campbell

The IT community use the terms Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture to describe the activity of “setting up” the business or the IT systems.   As a business strategist I have always found this language difficult.   I first came across it … Continue reading →

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Stakeholders and operating models

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Andrew Campbell

I had an insight as a result of a meeting with Angela Frith from Woolworths in Australia.  Angela was spending a couple of days with me to talk about operating models.   I was sharing my tools.   One tool, which I … Continue reading →

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More about design principles

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Andrew Campbell

The more work I do on operating models and organisation structures, the more I focus on creating good design principles.  For example, at a recent workshop in Brisbane (just showing off that I have a global client base!), I spent … Continue reading →

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Another operating model canvas

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Andrew Campbell

I came across the following article on a site called “Community” run by a consulting company called Dynalucid.  It uses the business model canvas as a starting point for creating an operating model canvas for a function like IT.  My … Continue reading →

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Wilson Perumal’s operating model?

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Andrew Campbell

If you have been reading this blog you will know that my definition of an operation model is PILOS – processes needed to execute the strategy, information systems needed to support the processes, locations and buildings to house the processes, … Continue reading →

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Working on an operating model

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Andrew Campbell

In a recent LinkedIn discussion, Don Hutcheson raised the question of the role of organisation charts in Enterprise Architecture (which for me is just operating model work!) There were some interesting responses, which stimulated me to add this post (edited … Continue reading →

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Why Design Thinking helps Operating Model work

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Andrew Campbell

I have been reading Jeane Lidtka’s book “Designing for Growth” and wanted to share some of her insights.   I also did Jeane’s on-line course – a Darden course with Coursera – which I highly recommend (well, I did not complete … Continue reading →

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What is the right term for operational excellence?

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Andrew Campbell

I came across some interesting data from a report by PEX .   The PEX researchers spoke to 400 people in process or operational improvement rolls in July 2014.  One of the questions they asked was about terminology.  What is the … Continue reading →

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Capability chain – a combination of value chain and capability map

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Andrew Campbell

Those of you who have been reading my blog will know that I have been worrying away at the concept of a capability map.  Initially, as a business strategist, I could not really see the point of these time consuming … Continue reading →

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