Four Ingredients in High Performance Organizations’ Secret Sauce

 High performers are more outward-looking and focused on the business dynamic. There are a variety of factors that drive competitive success in today’s global economy: customer reach, operational agility, cost competitiveness, and stakeholder confidence. The report also articulates the business new normal facing in business during the last couple of years. <·      Market variation: The new economy is more...

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Three Considerations in Reinventing IT Organizational Structure

IT can be a "pioneering" division to walk the talk and lead the change within an organization. Many IT organizations or enterprise as a whole intend to reinvent their “stale” working environment with 20th culture such as bureaucracy, the inertia to change, reward mediocrity, homogeneous leadership & talent team, over-complex business processes, inefficient communication pipelines, etc. However, reinventing organizational structure is not...

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Three Types of “Low Hanging Fruits” from EA

EA, as an abstraction, is created to convey the business value of change. We may all understand the fact that EA is a journey, but we also know stakeholders everywhere want to see results (Value) as soon as it is initiated/piloted. Can Business (Enterprise) Architecture delivers value within 90 days? What would that be? 1. Quick Win is in the mind of the expectant not the action of the executioner. Can EA deliver value in 90 days? It may depend...

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ITIL Framework: Value Added or Out -of-Date

Do not let ITIL or any other framework ruin your common sense. Take it as a guideline but put your own flavors and ingredients.  It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.  --Marshall McLuhan All companies are quite different and CIOs also have different understandings and experiences of ITIL. Some think ITIL provides a tremendous amount of benefits to many global companies;...

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Butterfly Effect: Do you agree there’s Link between Employees’ Disengagement & Global Economic Issues?

The more satisfied and inspired employees feel at work, the better performance can individual business achieve. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state.  The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the theoretical example of a...

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BPM & EA Hill View: Can you see a single version of the business process truth exist in most enterprises?

There might be “a single truth of the business process” at an atomic level and at a very high level,  but there are many different versions of the business processes in the middle. In order to get to a single version— BPM walks through a tough journey from bottom up, while EA oversights enterprise from top down, and they meet at a hill, to view the enterprise scene, can they see a "single version of business process truth" tactically,...

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