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NOTE: When I refer to “Business Architects” here, I am referring to anyone playing the role of the business architect. This could be business managers, enterprise architects, business analysts, strategists, etc. We don’t need the title of business architect to be one. When we do “business architecture things” we are acting as business architects. What […]

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become the nervous system for nearly every organization big and small.  Fundamentally ERP links functional business groups (Sales, Accounting, Marketing, HR, Production, etc.) through a centralized shared data model as a means of coordinating the Division of Labor first referenced in Adam Smith’s Pin Factory.   ERP’s origins come from concepts first […]

By Richard Lynch and Jack Calhoun Our colleagues, Jim Champy and the late Mike Hammer provocatively used the term “manifesto” in their book, “Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution.” We believe an amendment is needed. We proposed the following tenets are needed to transform obsolete business models: For more information on Transformation, we welcome […]