The Critical Role of the Business Technology Collaborator/Partner
October 23, 2019
Hosted by Sam Holcman
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Episode Description
Phrases such as technology supports the business, or needs to be aligned with the business, are industrial age thinking. It is like saying finance supports the business. These functional areas are the business, in the same way technology is the business. The Business Technology Collaborator/Partner (BTP) provides the focus that understands the business needs, the possibilities of technology to address these needs, and presents a business case that is suitable and understandable to the business stakeholders, and is transformable by the technology specialists. A BTP is quite different from business analysis, technologists, or business/enterprise architecture roles, is not a traditional “order taking” function, and has the ability to rationally balance short and long term business and technology needs and goals. A BTP skillset is a balance between human communications and technology awareness. Tune in for an understanding of this critical role in the digital transformation age.
The 2020’s Enterprise with Sam Holcman
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The 2020’s Enterprise is about sorting through the internet-driven advice madness that exists in business today. The great thing about the internet is that anyone can write anything about anything. The problem with the internet is that anyone can write anything about anything! Published practices are quite different than “best practices.” This program will provide practice-based insights in business transformation, organizational transformation and technology transformation, based on real world practices. Business executives, managers, practitioners, and staff are bombarded daily with utopian solutions that more often than not deliver significantly less than promised. This show is “no jargon,” just human communication. Be treated like a “customer” not a “user.” Our philosophy is to provide you with insights that can provide true value to organizations and individuals that face today’s and tomorrow’s competitive pressures, and provide a usable takeaway from each program.
Sam Holcman
Samuel B. (Sam) Holcman is the Chairman of the Pinnacle Business Group, Inc., the Managing Director of the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (EACOE), and the Business Architecture Center of Excellence (BACOE). He is considered the practitioners’ practitioner in Business Transformation, Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture, and the leading implementer and world-wide educator and trainer in Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture methodologies and techniques. Sam has developed a strategic planning process that is used by many Fortune 500 companies. He has also developed an innovative approach to business process re-engineering known as Business Process Visualization (TM) and Organization Network Analysis (TM). He has also developed the Intellectual Capital Maturity Model (TM) to provide guidance on how effectively organizations are managing their Intellectual Capital, and steps they can take to more effectively manage this capital. Most recently, he published the book titled “Reaching the Pinnacle: A Methodology of Business Understanding, Technology Planning, and Change.” This book brings a method to the marketing madness that surrounds enterprise architecture, and its straightforward and no-nonsense style sheds much light on a poorly understood topic. The book helps business executives and technology professionals through the process of building a business-transforming enterprise architecture appropriate to their organization’s needs.
