Tag Archives: Enterprise architecture

High-level IT Blueprint

Posted on February 25, 2017 by

What does a project on a high-level operating model need to say about IT?  And what does it need to deliver to the IT architecture team?  This is the focus of this blog.   The detailed work on IT architecture and … Continue reading →

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Capability Maps vs Process Maps: Horses for courses

Posted on April 14, 2016 by

Those who have been following this blog will know that I have devoted four or five entries to the issue of capability maps. Mainly because I have not seen the need for them and because they can obscure the core … Continue reading →

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Value chain, capability chain or operating chain?

Posted on January 8, 2016 by

Over the last year I have been going round in circles in my thinking about language.   I am convinced that the best place to start when doing operating model work is with a stakeholder map that helps identify the stakeholders … Continue reading →

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What is “architecture” in business design?

Posted on July 20, 2015 by

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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Working on an operating model

Posted on May 6, 2015 by

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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More on Business Models and Business Architecture

Posted on July 2, 2014 by

I thought it would be helpful to add some of the further comment from the LinkedIn thread on diagrams for operating models. This is for those interested in the issue of language.  See the first blog on this. In the … Continue reading →

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Operating model diagrams

Posted on June 20, 2014 by

Not many people write simply about a subject like operating models.   So I am reproducing here a blog by Jonathan Hammond of Knadel.  Jonathan does a great job of demistifying the task of generating a good diagram of your operating … Continue reading →

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