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Allan Shub
DIRECTOR - PRACTICE
Mr. Shub is currently in the Strategic Solutions practice at CIBER. He brings more than 25 years of business planning and business/technology alignment experience to the CIBER management team. Prior to CIBER, he has solved complex business/technology problems at fortune 500 firms such as Wachovia and Duke Energy. Mr. Shub has significant experience in business architecture, legacy modernization, application portfolio management, project portfolio management, advanced analytics (statistics), structured decision analysis and other planning disciplines. Mr. Shub’s work on business architecture and application development at Wachovia was the subject of a Forrester Research case study (2008).
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Business Architecture 101 : Value Streams vs. Value Chains
Allan Shub, Director - Practice : 11 October 2011 / 1:05 PM : 1 
In the previous edition of this blog, I introduced the concept of value streams as a key construct for business architecture. In the greater blogosphere there is considerable confusion between the terms ‘value stream’ and ‘value chain’. The terms are often used interchangeably, but this is a mistake. Understanding the difference is important to the domain of business architecture.
In his book The Great Transition (1995), James Martin stated “A value stream is an end-to-end collection of activities that create a result for a ‘customer’ who may be the ultimate customer or an internal ‘end user’ of the value stream. The va...
Posted in Enterprise Integration & IT Strategy on 11 October 2011
Tagged: Business Architecture Business Impact Analysis IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment
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Business Architecture 101
Allan Shub, Director - Practice : 27 September 2011 / 4:24 PM : 0
What is business architecture? The Business Architecture Special Interest Group (BASIG [part of OMG]) defines it as “a blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organization and is used to align strategic objectives and tactical demands.” Business architecture is the capstone of a complete enterprise architecture (EA) program. EA without business architecture will not meet the needs of the business. An effective implementation of business architecture not only helps ensure that IT assets and resources are aligned with business objectives and cost effective, but that the business itself is appropriately structured and m...
Posted in Enterprise Integration & IT Strategy on 27 September 2011
Tagged: Business Architecture Business Modeling Enterprise Architecture IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment SOA & Data Architecture
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