A business architecture for forward thinking universities looking to digitally transform education & university experiences. — During the pandemic, universities transformed in numerous ways to ensure tertiary educational activities were continuous as well as their survival. Technology played a crucial role in this front, with proliferating online education delivery platforms and massive open online courses (MOOC) platforms. …

Finding & organizing enterprise knowledge for reuse with customer proposals In the past 6+ months I’ve been engaged in managing a ton of knowledge at work which we often use for customer proposals and tenders. In this post I hope to share a few aspects of organizing knowledge in the software enterprise for reuse. And I’m going to do that…

Introduction Most business organizations are driven by the vision and direction. At a high level, these are defined using quantifiable business objectives as applicable to the entire organization, such as overall revenue targets, corporate brand value and more. However, when it comes to achieving these objectives, they are converted into a…

Why? An important aspect of digital transformation initiatives is to make sure that it is serving your vision, mission and strategic business objectives. If not, your technology strategy is not helping you achieve the business strategy. In simple terms, if the information systems designs, architectures and technology choices do not match…

Introduction Business Architecture is an essential business-level blueprint for digital transformation of an enterprise. There are a number of definitions, but only a handful of ideas are published around this subject in terms of its constituents, implementation, and how it should be pursued in a pragmatic sense in industry. Although it…

Most digital companies have moved towards the business of APIs; that is by transforming their products or services into an information offering through APIs. For instance, Uber — in addition to their digital transport service, offers their business information through APIs to their immediate ecosystem (i.e. businesses, riders and drivers)…

Last Autumn, my colleague and I did some brainstorming for an API strategy activity together. As part of this, we came up with the ‘Layered Strategy Pyramid’ that introduces how an API strategy program can be designed in a business-oriented manner starting with business goals and down to the APIs…

We often visit the neighbourhood’s Walmart, Target, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Boots, Carrefour for our everyday retail needs. Although we continue to buy goods from these brands, our lifestyles and external events have changed the way we shop over the years. …