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Problem - How do you transform a business Strategy to IT implementation artefact?,

Let’s quickly look at some of the challenges?

1. Is there a connection between business strategy and the software programs?
2. What are the key abstractions for modelling business ideas?
3. What are the types of artefacts to capture the system models?
4. How to map business activities with the software component definition?
5. How easy is to transform the business models

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Mapping process perspective to the Zachman framework cells:

In this part, I will discuss about how do we map the performance indicators related to process perspective to the cells of the Zachman framework.

Business processes are strategic assets of an organization. They help in delivery of value added products and services to clients. It's important to continuously improve processes if the enterprise wants to have the competitive edge. It requires that existing processes ...

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

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 Some of the systems having outdated business logic, some of them automatic outdated processes, sometimes applications are being written off as the underlying ...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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I know it's serious problem and most of the management folks are struggling to keep pace with the ongoing changes. One of the potential ways of solving this could be by combining Balance Scorecard with Enterprise Architecture initiatives.

It's been quite some time when the idea stuck. Thanks to the current engagements, I should board flight at least 6-8 times in a month. Of course, you need to ignore the last 60 days, I have boarded flights over 25 times ;-)...U guessed it right, am ...

Updated 11th March 2010 at 10:06 PM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: applications, balance score card, enterprise architecture, finance, information, network, people, performance indicators, processes, strategy, systems

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

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