Monthly Archives: June 2014

Navigating to achieve business goals

A business can expend considerable effort and cost attempting to achieve the various goals it has set. Both the effort and costs need to be managed through the execution of good process and the exploitation of reliable information. Using an … Continue reading

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Business Change – A fact of life

Change is inevitable. People change with experience, The market changes with customer ‘wants’, influenced by competitors, fads and innovation, Legal requirements change with government policy, Technology changes introducing obsolescence and new possibilities. Businesses that do not acknowledge the necessity of … Continue reading

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Picking low hanging fruit: not the windfall it seems.

When exploring multiple new opportunities, it is common business practice to ‘pick the low hanging fruit’, or, identify the ‘quick wins’. Whilst it is easy to rationalise that these will benefit the business and provide a faster return on investment, … Continue reading

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Extending the Architect Role Ontology to the rest of the business

A business and the individuals within it could really benefit from extending the role ontology to cover all positions. The survey of advertised Australian roles previously discussed, revealed that the Project Management roles are just as fragmented as that of … Continue reading

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Example of a high level Ontology supporting Architect roles.

It has been unfortunate that the term Enterprise Architect has been in many cases regarded as being more closely aligned to IT rather than the ‘whole of business’ as was originally intended. Supporting the ontology offered for discussion are the … Continue reading

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