EA & Five-Dimensional Business Capability Map

EA needs to create a conceptual, contextual, and logic layer of high-level capabilities identified and resulting in building up the well-tailored strategy for business to win with the long term perspective. Essentially, business is about the group of people to achieve something bigger or create value larger than each individual simply can not make by herself or himself. Therefore, a business capability is a pearl of collective wisdom and capability...

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Five Building Blocks of Talent Strategy from “Fifth Discipline”

“The Fifth Discipline” series of book written by Peter Senge was published in 1990th, “The Fifth Discipline” is all about learning. As applied to the “learning organization,” it results in changes in action, not just in forming new ideas, the five key disciplines are: 1.    System Thinking Having been taught to break problems down and see things laterally and sequentially, we’ve lost a sense of the whole, why do we attempt...

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Three-Step to Craft a Good Cloud Strategy

IT investment links directly to business outcomes. The challenge for CIOs will be to respond to this revenue-oriented demand while addressing the cost-cutting pressure that will remainToday's business strategy is about business growth, cost effectiveness and risk management.     IT strategy is a critical component of business strategy at the age of digitization, and Cloud, now becomes significant consideration in IT strategy,...

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Five Criteria: Good Strategy vs. Bad Strategy

The contemporary business world and global history that clearly show how to recognize the good, reject the bad, and make good strategy a living force in your organization.  The book: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, by Richard P. Rumelt well articulated the most basic idea of strategy which is the application of strength against weakness. Focus on one or two critical issues in the situation—the pivot points that...

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Five Take Away: Treasure Hunting in Blue Ocean

Corporate management team pursuing profitable growth can plot the company’s current and planned portfolios on a pioneer-migrator-settler (PMS) map. - "Blue Ocean" Research Based on the book "Blue Ocean Strategy " The aim of BOS is not to out-perform the competition in the existing industry, but to create new market space or a blue ocean, thereby making the competition irrelevant. As an integrated approach to strategy at the system level, BOS frameworks...

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