Would you build a house without a plan or blue print? Would you invest capital and not expect a return? Hopefully, your answer to both of these questions is NO. I believe most businesses strive for success with the best of intentions. Yet, we often see organisations that over time lose the ability to realise that success due to buying and implementing enterprise application software and I.T. infrastructure without an overarching plan that determines what the investment is to deliver.
This results in the management team becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of quality information, reporting and inefficiency. In these ad-hoc environments people tend to develop their own systems (typically in Access or Excel) as the core business systems don’t do what they want them to or they can’t get the information they need. This leads to the organisation being in a constant state of flux, losing the ability to be responsive and agile.
This is where an Enterprise Architecture can help the organisation realise success. There are some 30+ frameworks and methodologies on the market – you only have to do a search on Wikipedia to get the list. In my opinion, few if any of these frameworks address real business needs and deliver true alignment. But that is a topic for another day. To overcome the issues that we see we have developed the Realising Success ™ process and methodology – so businesses can achieve success through the alignment of systems, process, people and information. Getting the right information to the right people at the right time can lead to improved business insight and decision making, which ultimately means improved performance.
How could, and how should, we transition?
August 14, 2020
Protected: Weather the storm or change the climate
June 24, 2020
realising success® playbook
June 17, 2020
How to go quicker by taking time to stop…
April 1, 2020
Getting through the crisis.
March 30, 2020
Less than 50% of businesses are leveraging process insights.
February 17, 2020
Business Alignment Webinar
December 20, 2019
The Westpac alignment lessons we should take to the bank
December 4, 2019
It’s not progress, it’s just activity
October 4, 2019
Getting better visibility of emergent risk
September 14, 2019
Bright Shiny Object Syndrome
July 26, 2019
Collaboration – the social contract
May 1, 2019