Senseagility group PRESENTATIONS
The majority of large scale organizational transformation efforts take time. Not just capital, resources, but time. Behavior cannot change overnight - it has to evolve little by little over time. It is just like the sport of curling, but without the stone thrower. The stone glides over the ice, and the most effective change agents simply sweep the ice around the stone with rather crude implements to guide that stone to where they want it to go. Forcing the stone any other way can be counterproductive, and just downright dangerous - it weighs a lot and there's very little friction to stop it from running over one's foot.
Sweeping takes time. Planned volatility in leadership throws a wrench into that need for time. If you are a change programme leader, planned leadership volatility means that you not only have to continuously communicate about your effort, you have to "sell" more than one executive to be that effort's sponsor. And yet, a lot of organizations actively pursue a strategy to change executives on a regular basis. This presentation will outline how investment in one capability can undermine investments in others, and what protective steps can be taken using Capability Driven Management.
Value Driven Enterprise Architecture
We often hear management ask Enterprise Architects to streamline their services and delivery timelines. Does Enterprise Architecture provide services? What is the "Business" of Enterprise Architecture then? Applying Business Capabilities to both the business and operating models of Enterprise Architecture provides an insightful glimpse into how this function has performed historically and how it will need to evolve.
"Value Driven Enterprise Architecture" takes an indepth look at how Capability Investment Management Method™ (CIMM™) can be applied to Enterprise Architecture Business Function to create a Value Driven Enterprise Architecture. provides a perfect complement to TOGAF 9 Architecture Development Method. Building on "There's a Capability Map for That", "Decoding Business/IT Unity" and other SenseAgility Group publications, this presentation walks through Capability Investment Management Method™ (CIMM™) and the sample Enterprise Architecture Capability Map.
There's a Capability Map for That
An indepth look at how Capability Based Business Architecture provides a perfect complement to TOGAF 9 Architecture Development Method. Building on "Decoding Business/IT Unity" and other SenseAgility Group publications, this presentation walks through Capability Investment Management Method™ (CIMM™) and its use of existing standards, such as BPMN, UML, and ArchiMate.
A lot has been written and said on the topic of Business/IT Alignment. A lot of methods have been tried, and yet the goal has never seemed as elusive as it does in today's business climate. Business comes to the table with the increased pressures of the business cycle, the ever increasing information velocity, and the ever-more demanding client. IT comes to the table with solutions that seem to only increase in complexity bolstered by ever expanding technology disciplines, vendors, and standards, not to mention the baggage of years of suboptimal decisions coming home to roost. Business comes to the table from the top down. IT from the bottom up. They each speak a myriad of different 'Englishes'. They generally have an issue agreeing on how to define terms of engagement, or even who should own those terms, something we commonly see bubble up to the surface as data governance challenges. The mismatch between the business operating models of IT and their business stakeholders (or BOMM for short) can provide clues as to why the relationship between business and IT sometimes comes to resemble a cold war. This presentation will examine Business IT Alignment Patterns (and anti-Patterns) from the perspective of Business P&L Owners at various sizes of organization.
Diagnosis: Cloud Aware Applications as Competitive Advantage
How a Balanced Diet that Includes Application Security Can Enable Competitive Advantage. A sanity check to ensure that current application security challenges are not replicated to the Cloud.
Integration Capability Portfolio as Means to Competitive Advantage
What if you could integrate major mergers in weeks, rather than years? What if you could accurately forecast integration value, cost and timelines? Any organization armed with this set of core competencies would have a sizable competitive advantage in the marketplace. These questions are not meant to spur debate, nor are they academic. Processes and tools have progressed far enough over the past decade where building a capability portfolio focused on integration is no longer a state of the art. Assessing and improving the effectiveness of this capability portfolio is crucial to organizations who use M&A as part of their growth strategy and investment professionals who underwrite and finance these deals. This presentation will outline how capabilities enabled by Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), and Master Data Management (MDM) can be assembled into an Integration Capability Portfolio that can be leveraged at any time, and with great velocity.
Introduction to Technology Investment Management Method™ (TIMM™) first unveiled at the Financial Technology Management conference in February of 2009. This presentation goes through the "scary" project and metric statistics of current state and makes the case that capability-based approaches resolve a large portion of the complexity that leads to disappointing technology investments.
