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By: Ciopages Staff Writer
Date: Nov 29, 2018
Digital transformation is the megatrend driving billions in investment across the corporate world to reinvent the way they do business. CIOPages.com’s definitive guide to digital transformation is a comprehensive and in-depth insight for executives and entrepreneurs on how to think, plan, implement, and run things to be successful in the digital age. In the enterprise […]
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Date: Nov 25, 2018
What are Finance Capabilities? Finance capabilities are an abstraction of what accounting and finance function does and can do. We are using the term “Finance Capabilities” to represent the construct of business capabilities – as in the world of business architecture. The finance capabilities represent the holistic set of mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive set […]
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Date: Nov 24, 2018
What is a Capability Model? A Capability Model or a Business Capabilities Model is an integrated and comprehensive set of business capabilities. The capability model is a decomposition of what a business does and can do in a logical and granular grouping. A business capability model is one of the critical business architecture deliverables and […]
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Date: Nov 24, 2018
Effective business architecture is a critical foundation for companies embarking on a digital and cognitive transformation. Understanding the current state of capabilities and envisioning future state evolution of existing as well as emerging capabilities can serve as a compass for the enterprise transformation roadmap. In this digital world, the design is the experience layer, business […]
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Date: Nov 19, 2018
Change Management Tools are essential methods, models, tools, templates, and software which are necessary and useful while managing organizational change during major enterprise transformation programs. The change management tools help the enterprise transformation teams in preparing, initiating, instilling, and institutionalizing all aspects of change programs. Let’s first be clear about a couple of things before […]
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Date: Nov 15, 2018
Business architects are having their moment in the sun as the importance of business architecture, and hence the role of business architects has been rising in the digital age. To be a successful business architect, it is essential to transcend from the perception of a person who draws boxes and arrows and become a catalyst […]
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Date: Oct 21, 2018
Change Management Process in the digital age needs to undergo a transformation of its own – to reflect the realities of the new era and foster a change management approach which is agile, iterative, incremental, and evolving. In this digital economy, change is fast, fleeting, and furious. Enterprises, big or medium or small, are struggling […]
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Date: Oct 19, 2018
What are Change Management Models? Change Management Models are frameworks which encapsulate a foundational concept, a methodology, a content metamodel, and an in-depth approach to achieving the transformation change objectives and foster adoption and acceptance of the new desired state. Think of change management models as a guide or a compass to navigate and institute […]
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Date: Sep 10, 2018
HCM strategic transformation (or HR strategic transformation) has implications on the overall enterprise, not just the human resources function. Before embarking on the HCM transformation initiatives, here are the critical questions to ask and answer. Essential Questions regarding HCM Strategic Transformation: What are the overall enterprise goals? Do the HCM strategic transformation have an impact […]
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Date: Sep 10, 2018
Human resources functional model is a detailed decomposition and a grouping of all the key functions of a best-in-class HR department. The HR functional decomposition, also known as HR capability model, is a tool that allows HR leaders to understand the big picture as well as drill down into a specific area for underlying capabilities. […]
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Date: Dec 11, 2017
What is Enterprise Business Architecture (EBA)? Enterprise business architecture (EBA) or Strategic Business Architecture is a comprehensive and integrated modeling of a company linking the strategic, structural, informational, technological, and operational aspects of a corporation. Enterprise Business Architecture is about enabling the strategic intent into a functional reality. What is the definition of enterprise Business […]
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Date: Dec 07, 2017
Surviving the digital revolution and thriving in this digital age is not for the faint of heart. Surviving the digital revolution and transformation is not just about shiny new technologies, which of course are important and a means to an end, but it is about strategic intent, operational execution, culture and mindset, and rethinking the […]
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Date: Nov 23, 2017
In this post, let’s examine the business architecture tools, templates, frameworks, and models – the tools of the trade of a business architect. As we all know, business architecture when done right can be a useful catalyst for business/IT alignment and optimal technology enablement. The business architecture tools span the spectrum based role definition of […]
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Date: Nov 15, 2017
Digital is not just a technology revolution, but a fundamentally new way of doing business, and hence the change management principles for the digital age must evolve as well. Indeed, change management is changing – for the better. The change management principles for the digital age vary based on company-specific factors such as the corporate culture, […]
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Date: Nov 01, 2017
The changing role of the CFO is the talk of the financial circles. Challenges galore by way of increased regulation, fast-moving, and ever-shifting business landscape, and hyper-competition. The rest of the C-Suite is relying on the CFO’s office to provide the business vitals to make data-driven decisions. While the faint of the heart may only see the […]
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Date: Oct 31, 2017
What is a Marketing Transformation Roadmap? A Marketing Transformation Roadmap is a step-by-step navigation to get your enterprise from the point of departure to the point of arrival, by taking a set of actions, implementing some activities and achieving some outcomes, in a planned and sequential manner. Marketing Transformation, as the word “transformation” implies, is […]
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Date: Oct 24, 2017
What are the core finance organizational capabilities of a world-class accounting and finance function? From a nomenclature point of view, what we are referring to here is not the business architecture related business capabilities model, but more of the accounting and finance organizational capabilities, as in the functional and structural components. (Finance business capabilities model […]
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Date: Oct 24, 2017
There is a lot of ambiguity and confusion about finance capabilities, competencies, and capacity. Many folks, who are qualified professionals in their own right, make the mistake of using these terms – finance capabilities, competencies, and capacity interchangeably. Of course, if the receiving party of your communication knows precisely what you mean, generally it is OK […]
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Date: Oct 23, 2017
In business circles in general, and project management realm, in particular, the term “Change” is bandied about concerning both Change Management and Change Control. The term change management is often used interchangeably. As is usually the case, two terms that are synonymous, but two disciplines that are vastly different can lead to confusion and at […]
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