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• Business Harmonisation – How Common is Common Enough?
  In Business Process, KPI, MIS and many other contexts the concept of commonality is seen as being very desirable.  After all, why should separate parts of the same organisation operate differently and use different systems to do so……it just makes things harder and more costly to implement, share, re-use and/or outsource doesn’t it? Well, there is [...] […]
• Data – The Poor Relation with a Big Say
  To some use of the word ‘data’ signals the beginning of one of the most boring, technically esoteric and generally useless topics of discussion they can imagine.  Data model, data dictionary, data schema, data cleansing, data coding & classification……or just plain old data. HELP!  How much boredom and technophobia can one person be expected to cope [...] […]
• Innovation on Tap – A Proven Framework for Commercial Innovation
  No Longer a Black Art In bygone days the practice of product, process or service innovation and development in commercial organisations was a black art practiced by marketers, engineers or scientific researchers…..dependent on the industry. There was either no fixed method for doing this work, or the formal methods that existed were proprietary to the compan […]
• The Ratchet – An Approach to Business Change that Works when Others Won’t
  The ‘Ratchet’ approach is a proven means of making progress in difficult change environments where only CARROTS are available and STICKS are unheard of! What?  Unheard of you say!  A work environment with ALL carrot and NO stick……it can’t and won’t work, and it doesn’t or shouldn’t exist! Well, if your sentiments are along the lines of [...] […]
• Business Architecture – Virtual Working: A Green Productivity, Cost Containment and Morale Boosting Opportunity ‘All-in-One’
  Is this yet another article about the sort of business architecture that discusses the construction of environmentally friendly, eco-efficient buildings that recycle their own waste for power and have vast acreages of grass for a roof? Nope, sorry, everyone looking for that sort of business architecture article should stop here. Having said that, this busine […]
• Business Architecture – The Power of Knowledge Standardisation and Re-use
  One thing everyone on the Biz4ge team has noticed is that whilst the concept of business architecture is not new, it is not exactly in common use either. We have also noticed that where it is practiced, to demonstrably good effect, tends to be in the larger national or international organisations who are often the leaders [...] […]
• Business Architecture – Your Ticket to Value-led ‘Fast-track’ Delivery
  No doubt there are some of you, who having read the words value-led ‘fast-track’ delivery in the title, are thinking……what? Going down a route involving business architecture and business blueprinting sounds like a recipe for the exact opposite result! We at Biz4ge would like to convince you that it can be otherwise. We certainly will be [...] […]
• Business Architecture – Lean-Six-Sigma’s (Un)Natural Bedfellow
  Cats and dogs living in harmony, bright sunshine the weekend of the big BBQ and used car salesmen standing behind their guarantees. These are just a few of the unnatural events that some say also includes business architects and their business blueprints cooperating with lean-six-sigma black belts and their value stream maps. However, on closer [...] […]
• Business Architecture – The Open Road to Open Source Software
  Yippee-ki yi- yay…….that well-worn ‘old west’ cowboy cry that some would not find out of keeping with the popular image in some quarters of open source software. Most of us have heard about open source software and many of us think we have a sense of what it is about. Many of us see it [...] […]
• Business Architecture – The Missing Link in Organisational Agility and Performance Transformation
  Business architecture, business blueprint, enterprise architecture……whichever is your favourite flavour of these similar concepts……if you do only one thing better as part of your next business transformation initiative, it should be this. Nothing else we know of, properly executed (i.e. fit-for-purpose, not over or under done) is so essential to the achieve […]