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What Makes a Great Business Architect?
“What makes a great business architect?”
“My organization is looking to hire business architects. What should we be looking for?”
“How do I know my business architect is doing the ‘right’ things?”
Business Architecture: The Complete View of Business
In recent years, two business evaluation methodologies have competed for center stage: Business Process Management and Business Rules Management (or, as some are now calling it, “Business Decision Management”). Currently, there is a new methodology, Business Architecture, which is attracting attention.
Why is Business Architecture generating such interest?
The Watermelon Box
“Innovation” does not always mean “new technology”
There’s almost nothing better on a hot summer day, especially at a picnic, than a nice, cold, juicy watermelon. The problem with watermelons, however, is that they are big, oblong objects that usually don’t fit in the fridge and often take up the whole ice chest (occasionally, you can find a smaller, volleyball-shaped melon, but even those take up a bunch of space).
Facilitation: Key Ingredients for Success
Anyone who has been in the business world for a while has probably experienced a few painful facilitation sessions, plagued by conversations going in circles and little to nothing being accomplished. With today’s reality of back-to-back and double-booked meetings, the value of participants’ time has never been greater. The good news is that meeting time can be better spent, resulting in quicker decision making and less time to implementation. How? There are two key ingredients to achieve an effective facilitation session – a good facilitator and careful sess
Cloud BPM Workshop – How to Design & Deploy Business Process Applications in the Cloud
Organizations are constantly being pushed to create leaner organizations while maintaining productivity and profitability.To address this situation, Fujitsu is now offering complete process lifecycle management via the Cloud.
Join us for a demonstration and discussion around how to quickly build business process applications in the Cloud with the Interstage Cloud BPM offering. During this session, we will walk you through:
1. Getting started by creating your own secure space on the platform
Complete BPM in the Cloud
The Fujitsu InterstageBPM.com SolutionInterstageBPM.com provides organizations with secure Internet access to the world-class Fujitsu Interstage(r) Business Process Management (BPM) platform – without needing to install or maintain hardware, software, or network infrastructure.
The Value of Relationships
When you grapple with a new idea, where do you start? Most people concentrate on the whole or the parts – either the entity that is the overall idea or the entities that compose it. That we approach ideas in this manner and don’t think about them instead as sets of relationships among components seems to be natural. Relationships, if we get around to them at all, are secondary considerations.
Is SOA really a failure?
I recently came across an article titled “SOA is dead, long live services!” It grabbed my attention (in fact, it is subject of a very lively discussion in the blogosphere), and got me thinking about how SOA has come to reach the “trough of disillusionment” stage. I decided to put some thoughts together, a sort of “a posteriori” analysis of my own experiences. So, why do SOA projects fail? We have the usual litany of suspects: market over-hype, vendor “marketecture”, lack of skilled resources, funding, etc. But that would be too easy, maybe even a cop out.
Barriers to success: Decision Management
Despite the growing number of success stories testifying to the positive business-transforming effects of Decision Management, many companies struggle to reach an implementation maturity level that generates continual value.
Risk and Compliance – embedding specific requirements in the Target State Business Architecture
Risk and Compliance
Many companies across the globe are facing up to a whole new world where risk and compliance assurance must now be supported by reliable controls over which the level of transparency required to be provided by the business to the governance process is considerably onerous.
Furthermore the requirements on the company are written into statutory obligations and carry heavy penalties for those that fail to deliver.
What’s Up With Business Architecture Vendors?
Business architecture teams are making significant inroads by providing business executives with the organizational transparency required to diagnose and take on critical business challenges. As business architects continue to collect, organize, aggregate and visualize cross-functional, cross-disciplinary business knowledge, they require a business architecture knowledgebase.
Evolving the Decision Model with Views
This article assumes knowledge of the Decision Model. If you are not already familiar with the theory of the Decision Model you can download a brief primer from www.TheDecisionModel.com.)
Shaping Complex Ideas
Good ideas usually have system-like characteristics. That may seem strange, considering how we have been indoctrinated all our lives to believe great ideas are simple, complete and self-evident once conceived (think solutions to problems or opportunities for enrichment). Examples of these abound, many now urban legends.
The Process Practitioner: An Independent Review of Metastorm ProVision
In a continuing series evaluating the tools used by Business Process practioners, this article looks at Metastorm ProVision®. Criteria for evaluation are ease of use, a short learning curve, and good collaboration features.
What role should SaaS play in your BPM strategy?
Driven by the continued success of companies like Salesforce.com, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model has become an increasingly important element of the mix of technology sourcing options available to enterprises over the past two years. Recently, a number of vendors have introduced SaaS-based BPM technology tools and platforms, eager to “surf the wave” and ensure that they don’t miss out on any opportunities, should enterprises start to shift wholesale to using the SaaS model for their IT capabilities.
Business / IT Collaboration Model: A Practical Approach
The collaboration between the business department and IT department of an organization has been subject to research by many organizational professionals. Some companies manage things very well, others have their problems. This article will not provide you with a silver bullet for business & IT alignment, but provides some practical directions for establishing a business driven collaboration.
Enterprise Architecture Works Best as a Roadmap – Not a Blueprint
Ever heard the old saw – perhaps in a crowded sports arena or while standing in front of the TV on game day –, “You’d make a better door than a window?” The idea, of course, is that one can see through a window but not a door.
Managing the Less Visible Processes
Introduction
Many business process improvement initiatives seem to focus mainly on the very high visibility processes of the enterprise such as the supply chain, order fulfilment or customer service management, while negelecting the smaller but supporting everyday processes, including travel authorizations, expense filing and timesheets. These smaller processes, when poorly designed or designed without considerable care in the business rules and policies enforced, could mount in cost over a period of time.
Transforming an Enterprise – an Effective Approach for Implementing Change
‘The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order’
Alfred North Whitehead
(b.1861 – d.1947), British mathematician and philosopher.
SOA Repository Best Practice
For those of us who have been developing applications for many years (think COBOL & Assembler from the 70s and 80s), the idea of having a code library (programs and routines) is nothing new. However for the Web Services generation, this concept has taken a while to re-emerge, but has now been packaged in the form of a services registry and/or repository.
