No One Really Wants An Enterprise Architecture
January 29, 2020
Hosted by Sam Holcman
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Episode Description
You want a road map to clearly define what needs to be done to enable your Business or Mission Strategy. No one wants a series of seemly endless “sprints” not knowing where the goal line is. You want to know what your end state objective is and how to get there. No one wants to be lectured to for hours on frameworks, and methodologies, and so-called best practices. You want to be able to clearly identify a set of mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive initiatives and capabilities to enable your business or mission strategy. No one really wants a set of intellectually entertaining models. You want to be able, as an example, to analyze your potential merger or acquisition of a competitor or organization, and determine the degree of “fit” before any major decisions are made. That is the REAL end objective of a Business Outcome Driven Enterprise Architecture to your organization. This broadcast is your starting point. You will be glad you listened!
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.
