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EA must provide standard and guidance to Enterprise Solution Framework and Shared Infrastructure

March 2, 2011
By Martin Palmgren

Contribution by Daud Santosa, Chief Technology Officer at Department of the Interior – National Business Center, http://www.linkedin.com/in/dsantosa Today, there are  so many EA frameworks that many practioners are very familiar with one or more of the following frameworks: TOGAF, DODAF, FEAF, Zach man, etc.  All of these frameworks have some commonalities which provide guidance’s...

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How to effectively support strategy execution with IT (align)

March 2, 2011
By Martin Palmgren

As our perspective (value proposition) is “how to leverage business strategy with IT” and our clients most of the time CIO’s we use ITIL for the construction of the IT Service Strategy (this is where IT Supports the Business Strategy (Align) to execute business objectives). If you read ITIL + (VALIT+ COBIT + RISKIT...

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PoV On six sigma in the context of the IT Service Strategy

March 1, 2011
By Martin Palmgren

Contributor Bernardo Nicoletti http://it.linkedin.com/pub/bernardo-nicoletti/0/105/271 To improve the process of the delivery of services, start with a Strategy and Design point of view. If this would not be the case the resulting IT services will very likely be broken. The 5 ITIL process domain – Operations, Transition, Design Strategy must be considered on an end-to-end...

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GAP (align) the IT Architecture* to leverage your IT Service Strategy!

March 1, 2011
By Martin Palmgren

We believe that it is critical to provide an IT architecture that delivers to / leverages the IT Service Strategy!

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We have spent 3 years to build a Balanced Scorecard (for the IT department) now what do we do with IT?

February 27, 2011
By Martin Palmgren

Where the balance score card is an excellent opportunity to capture and "steer" the direction of a Company / LoB / department / activity the exercise tend to become an objective in itself (see http://pscommunicate.com/blog/2011/02/20/ea-does-not-matter/ ) where it should depict the roadmap on how to deliver to the business (IT) strategy (and in the...

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ITIL + VALIT+ COBIT + RISKIT + CMMI leveraged with EA= Effective Business (IT) Governance

February 26, 2011
By Martin Palmgren

Business strategy executed with effective processes (industrialised with IT when needed) and leveraged by a coherent IT Service Strategy make common sense. An EA defined as such that support the execution of business strategy with IT should hence make perfect sense. Governance, Risk, Compliance and IT alignment with the business as Programme Portfolio Management ...

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Why social media should never be the strategy of the IT Department

February 20, 2011
By Martin Palmgren

Where social media should be a part of the IT strategy it should never be the strategy of the IT Department: - Understand what you want to do and how to leverage social media accordingly!

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EA Does not matter!

February 20, 2011
By Martin Palmgren

But a business strategy executed with effective processes (industrialised with IT when needed) and leveraged by a coherent IT Service Strategy make common sense! See http://pscommunicate.com/blog/2011/02/26/itil-valit-cobit-riskit-cmmi-leveraged-with-ea-effective-business-it-governance/ We all know that six sigma was invented by Motorola, what few of us know is that six sigma almost put Motorola as well as 3M out of...

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How to get the CIO in to the Executive Suit(e)!

February 20, 2011
By Martin Palmgren

How effective is your Business (IT) Model? What is often forgotten in the context of Architecture and Governance and alignment to business objectives is that IT is to support the business and the execution of the business strategy. The “usual suspects” standards represent the capability to deliver services to the business and the ability...

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With an effective IT Business Model!

February 19, 2011
By Martin Palmgren

“Deliver IT services to the business through an Effective IT Business Model”

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