Strategy and Tactics – Two Sides of the Same Coin
Posted by Jeff Scott in Strategy on May 16, 2013
Mike correctly pointed out in his comment to my last post, Strategy By Any Other Name, that I didn’t address the difference between strategy and tactics. Well let’s take a look now. First, I think there are really two questions here. One is “What is the difference between strategy and tactics.” and the other is […]
A Strategy by Any Other Name
Posted by Jeff Scott in Strategy on May 8, 2013
What is strategy? That question pops up a lot and everyone seems to have an answer. Just not the same answer. However, one thing is clear. Most people and I mean truly smart people often get strategy wrong. So wrong in fact that that many executives give up on strategy altogether. I once was in […]
Five Essential Capabilities Every Organization Should Have
Posted by Jeff Scott in Capabilities on April 22, 2013
One of the biggest challenges in building capability models is getting people to move from functional thinking (the things we do) to capability thinking (the ability we have to do things). The reason this is so difficult is that organizations generally create organizational functions around capabilities so they often look very similar. For example, most […]
Ten Predictions for Business Architecture in 2020
Posted by Jeff Scott in Business Architecture on April 9, 2013
Architects of all types like to peer into the future and I am no different. When my Forrester colleague, Gordon Barnett, mentioned he was working on a new report on the state of business architecture in 2020, I thought it was time for me to look into my business architecture crystal ball. For the record, […]
Capabilities Demystified – Part 3
Posted by Jeff Scott in Capabilities on April 4, 2013
Assessing Business Capabilities Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is largely driven by three factors. First, business leaders at all levels find capabilities an appealing and useful way to think about growing their organization’s impact. Second, capabilities are versatile, easily applied to high level strategic activities […]
Why YOU Need a Business Architecture
Posted by Jeff Scott in Business Architecture on March 28, 2013
I just returned from the OMG/BA Guild Business Architecture Innovation Summit where there was a lot of discussion on the subject of business architecture value. No one had a good answer for either creating a business case or measuring value delivered. This is a challenging topic for a new profession where methods are not standardized, […]
Capabilities Demystified – Part 2
Posted by Jeff Scott in Capabilities on March 24, 2013
Constructing Business Capabilities Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is largely driven by three factors. First, business leaders at all levels find capabilities an appealing and useful way to think about growing their organization’s impact. Second, capabilities are versatile, easily applied to high level strategic activities […]
