First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 6, 2011

Doing Both: Capturing Today’s Profit and Driving Tomorrow’s Growth Inder Sidhu FT Press/Pearson Organizational transformation is not — repeat not – a zero-sum game One of the most self-defeating mindsets is suggested by the admonition, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.&#

Review 75

Review Books Short-term Long-term 75

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Sir Christopher Kelly, a former British senior civil servant, recently produced a damning report , which reviewed the events that led to the £1.5 The factors contributing to the failure cited in the report are ones that we all too frequently have encountered when we have reviewed challenged or failed projects. hedge funds.

Banking 10

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

Many LinkedIn groups, like The Enterprise Architecture Network and the Project Management Institute (PMI) , organize networking events for their members. I not only researched the company, but also looked to see if I had any shared connections to any of the company's employees. Twitter also proved to be very useful.

Enterprise Architecture 16

Enterprise Architecture Skills Information Technology Industry 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Let's review the distinguishing features of what each religion has to say about sustaining improvement. BPM missionaries say processes and process knowledge embedded in software, an enterprise architecture, and a central process management organization sustain improvement.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

A second new component of the IT function should be dedicated to this category of work: the Enterprise Integration Group (EIG). EIG is responsible for enterprise architecture, the center of expertise for simplification and integration methods, process and program management. Participating in Strategy Formulation.

Enterprise Architecture 9

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It’s not about consumer apps being used for work, and it’s not just about enterprise apps taking on more consumer-like characteristics. The enterprise architecture of the future needs to invert traditional thinking. Some call this “consumerization of IT”, but this descriptor mostly misses to the point.

CIO 9

CIO Information Technology Enterprise Architecture Software 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Not only must they sit down at the start to define data use requirements with precision, but they must then meet regularly — bi-weekly or monthly — to review progress and keep the effort on track. The CMO and CIO (and potentially the CTO) must bring complete transparency to the process. Learn to drive before you fly.

CIO 10

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Enterprise Architecture Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

One of the common divides is that the former is focused on adopting the latest technologies, while the latter is focused on governance, security, and enterprise architecture. Yet marketing and IT executives often don’t speak the same language or understand each other’s goals or roadmaps.

Marketing 8

Marketing Enterprise Architecture Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA)—creating and adhering to an overarching plan for building IT systems—has been around for some time. The enterprise architecture must be driven by a customer- and market-oriented view of a constantly changing business environment. But it need not be like this.

System 8

System Enterprise Architecture Agility Operations 8