Ken Orr is the founder and chief scientist for The Ken Orr Institute, a business technology research organization. He is an internationally known and recognized expert on technology transfer, software engineering, information architecture, and data warehousing.
March 1, 2005
Ken Orr
Business Process Management (BPM)
Articles by: Ken Orr
Business Process and Business Enterprise Architectural Modeling
If you don’t have the time to listen to this issue’s Featured Archive, this article serves as an executive summary of the presentation, “Business Process and Business Enterprise Architectural Modeling” given by Ken Orr, President and Founder of The Ken Orr Institute. Business Process and Enterprise Architecture are often approached from different directions. This presentation discusses integrating BP and EA initiatives using the Business Enterprise Architectural Modeling approach driven from the business strategy.
Ken Orr is the founder and chief scientist for The Ken Orr Institute, a business technology research organization. He is an internationally known and recognized expert on technology transfer, software engineering, information architecture, and data warehousing.
Doing Business Architecture
It is hard for your organization to have an agile organization these days if your IT systems and infrastructure aren’t. Enterprise Architecture and specifically Business Architecture is aimed at helping organizations become truly agile.
A couple of years ago I wrote an article entitled “The 3 faces of Enterprise Architecture”.
The Human Focus of Business Processes and Systems
Strategic Business Plans and end-to-end Business Processes are important.
The Process-Centric Company and the Value of BP Frameworks
Ken Orr is the founder and chief scientist for The Ken Orr Institute, a business technology research organization. He is an internationally known and recognized expert on technology transfer, software engineering, information architecture, and data warehousing.
Leveraging Process Modeling for Business Value
Process modeling is a method of showing the processes of an organization in graphical form to simplify the work of understanding those processes. Ken Orr uses a number of different models to cut through the IT process maze and overcome the organizational bias the always runs against process reform. Working with the Kansas Department of Transportation, (KDOT) Orr was able to greatly improve and streamline their business processes.
Ken Orr is an internationally recognized expert on business process reengineering, technology transfer, software engineering, data warehousing, and knowledge management. He is the founder and Principal Researcher of The Ken Orr Institute, a business technology research organization.