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IT Capacity - Do more with less
Ashu Bhatia, Director of Delivery : 23 February 2010 / 4:22 PM : 0 
I was talking to an IT executive and he was chatting about how difficult it was to raise awareness within the business side of what IT capacity he has and how much his organization can really take on. He mentioned that despite some IT demand management processes, it was tough to set expectations. I guess these days IT Operations faces a number of opposing priorities:
Tagged: Business Architecture IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment IT Value
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Business Drivers and IT Strategy
Gregg Powers, Senior Management Consultant : 20 January 2010 / 12:13 PM : 2
In the last blog entry, we looked at some of the first principles of IT strategy – things that should be addressed within an IT strategy document. In this blog entry, we explore in more detail, some of the fundamental aspects of tying IT strategy to the business. A key relationship that develops over time, although not immediately recognized by IT executives, is IT organizations inability to objectively define their value proposition are often viewed as an expense to be minimized. Hence, there is a linkage between the view of IT within the organization as an expense and IT’s inability to define its value.
Tagged: IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment
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Master Data Management
Ashu Bhatia, Director of Delivery : 08 December 2009 / 11:05 AM : 1
Master Data Management
Master Data is the fundamental business data in the company, typically long-lived and used across multiple applications, inherently including the subset of Master Reference Data.
Master Data, including Reference Data, is not to be considered “Metadata”. Metadata is data about data. It describes data content but it is NOT the content. There is no formal and universal definition of how deep to take the definition from a content perspective. Only those metadata whose management will bring more value to the enterprise than the cost of the labor nee...
Tagged: Business Architecture Data Architecture Enterprise Integration Information Management SOA & Data Architecture
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Shared Services and proper Chargeback is key for IT Operational Excellence
Ashu Bhatia, Director of Delivery : 01 October 2009 / 9:37 AM : 1
There has always been much discussion and interest in creating Operational Efficiency through Shared Services - and today's climate is no exception. In particular, if a company is decentralized and the IT organizations are serving businesses in a disparate manner, there is some scope to optimize the IT spend, after bringing these silos under a common umbrella. But a Support Services business model typically used, whether as a cost center or profit center, has its pluses and minuses. However, in any case that this is set up, there are certain steps to be followed:
Tagged: Business Architecture CIO IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment IT Value
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II - IT Strategy First Principles
Gregg Powers, Senior Management Consultant : 18 September 2009 / 4:20 PM : 0
In the last blog entry, we looked at the need for IT Strategy. In this blog we will look at some of the foundational elements and perspectives used in development of a good IT strategy.
Google ‘IT strategic plan’ – go ahead and...
Tagged: Business Value IT Planning IT Strategy IT to Business Alignment IT Value
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Competitive Intelligence – Evolution of BI to Analytics
Ashu Bhatia, Director of Delivery : 11 September 2009 / 10:07 AM : 2
This is the way I see evolution of BI into CI:
As companies mature, their requirements for Business Intelligence become more sophisticated. Decision Support Capability may be deployed throughout an organization or Tagged: Application Architecture Business Architecture Business Intelligence Business Value CIO Information Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Khalid Mansour, VP, Global Enterprise Integration : 11 September 2009 / 9:55 AM : 2 As CIBER approaches 2010 we are evaluating our service offerings as part of our future strategy and vision to make sure we are in alignment with clients and market demands as well keeping up with the latest technology areas – in this case it is a disruptive trend called Cloud Computing (and its siblings). In the overall services concept “disruptive” means that in 5-10 years, if not earlier, it will render obsolete what you have today. Cloud Computing is a style of computing (and a style of outsourcing) that utilizes on demand (whenever you need it) large available CPU and storage power, without the hardware nor software on premis... Tagged: Cloud Computing SOA & Data Architecture Virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. Thomas Hamlin, Principal Consultant : 28 August 2009 / 10:04 AM : 0 There may be considerable value in a debriefing from a recent assessment. The client company is an international engineering firm with enthusiastic growth plans. Their goal is to grow their revenues by over 300% within 10 years and expand their international presence among other things.
There was one central driving issue that was the genesis for our engagement. It was to provide the client’s Director of IT with an independent non-technology specific review of their IT infrastructure, enterprise architecture, application portfolio, policies and procedures, methods and processes, and best practices. Can you guess... Tagged: Business Architecture Business Continuity Business Modeling Business Value Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Integration IT to Business Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ashu Bhatia, Director of Delivery : 20 August 2009 / 3:37 PM : 0 Based on the feedback from my previous entry on BI in Healthcare, I wanted to share some metrics that have been used to measure effectiveness in this industry.
Increase Evidence Availability and Use 
Cloud Computing - Introduction 
Business Architecture: An Actual Assessment 
BI in Healthcare – Part 2
Tagged: Business Architecture Business Intelligence Healthcare
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Enterprise Architecture Oldies but Goodies
Tom Finneran, Principal Consultant : 17 August 2009 / 2:49 PM : 0
Enterprise Architecture Oldies but Goodies.
I just finished a Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse (BI / DW) Assessment. It is well accepted that the best BI / DW Architectural work rests upon a foundation of a solid Enterprise Architecture. Of course, there is no single Enterprise Architecture instead the enterprise architecture can be considered to consist of four interrelated architectures or architectural views:
Data Architec...
Tagged: Application Architecture Business Architecture Business Intelligence Data Architecture DW / BI Architecture Enterprise Architecture Information Management IT Strategy Technology Architecture
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