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Mapping financial perspective to the Zachman framework cells


Translating the “strategies� to “operation� – bridging the gap

This is very critical. Very often, strategy models and the operational instances of the enterprise and enterprise models are completely out of sync. It is an ongoing effort to ensure their exist alignment between the various models at the strategy level with respect to the various models at the operational level. Some of the quick ...

Updated 30th March 2010 at 05:57 PM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: financial dashboard, financial indicators, strategy, zachman framework

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Enterprise Architecture , BPM & BPMS , Balance Score Card , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites

Here, is a list of indicators from financial perspective which could be good starting point as we move away from doing lip service to IT-Business alignment issue to actually working towards it. There are 10 indicators to start with.

It would be good to have your feedback if you have already used some of them or if you plan to pick few of them this year. How about coming back and reviewing them in Jan 2011?
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To downlaod the kit ( ppt ...

Updated 20th February 2010 at 12:38 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: financial perspective, it-business alignment

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Software Architecture , Enterprise Architecture , Business Intelligence , Balance Score Card , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites

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If your enterprise models are OUT OF ORDER and so is your business? - part II

Prioritize key business & system problems:

As a result, you will already have the problem of several systems within the organizations, with 30-40% of overlapping functionality (sometime up to 70-80%). Some of the systems having outdated business logic, some of them automatic outdated processes, sometimes applications are being written off as the underlying ...

Updated 22nd March 2010 at 07:52 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: architecture framework, architecture styles, cost savings, enterprise architecture, process efficiency, process transparency, revenue, software components

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Software Architecture , Enterprise Architecture , SOA & SaaS , Reusable software asset , Balance Score Card , Cloud Computing, Virtualization , ITIL & ITSM , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites

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This post took more time than I had planned. As most of the last week was spent traveling and attending tutorials with John Zachman.
It’s always enjoyable and great learning associated with such travels. We just covered four cities in India within five days. Not to mention CXO dinner meets in Mumbai & Bangalore, which went up to late nights.

In the first part of this series, I deliberated on how to define strategy models and the key factors to consider, transformation from ...

Updated 3rd June 2011 at 03:54 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: buisness, database, dependency, enterprie architecture, process, programs, strategy, systems, technology

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Software Architecture , Enterprise Architecture , SOA & SaaS , Business Intelligence , BPM & BPMS , Middleware , UML, BPMN

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Are you wondering why am I am talking about Henry Ford ? Do you see a link between IT systems, IT architecture & Car manufacturing?

Very often such parallels are lost in endless debates for obvious reasons. The problem is when you equate the current maturity of IT with prevailing maturity and advancement in manufacturing practices. I know you would have started to debate the relevance of such comparison? Car manufacturing vs IT Manufacturing...are they comparable..can we compare the ...

Updated 9th March 2010 at 03:03 PM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: car manufacturing, it architecture, product line, product line architecture, software architecture, software assembly

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Software Architecture , Reusable software asset , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Application & Product Lifecycle Management , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites