Benchmark Consulting, the creators of IRIS Business Architect, is proud to announce its partnership with Actone. Actone is a management consultant firm. Its mission is to help businesses realize their strategies and apply them into action. With active membership in international forums and communities in recent years, Actone experts have achieved a deep and up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the obstacles to the execution of strategies and the development of a strategy execution methodology based on business architecture. With a capability-based perspective, Actone provides the necessa ..read more

I could not agree more with Nick Malik[1], that wrote: “Agile architecture. It not only can be done, but it is an essential skill for Digital Transformation.[2]” Agile architecture is necessary for dynamic and competitive environments, agile corporate planning ecosystems, and highly iterative initiative deliveries. Yet, agile architecture does not mean free for all. Far from it! Agile architecture requires collaborative discipline in all five steps of an Agile Strategy Execution, where architects iterate with the entire planning ecosystem of their organization. Five Steps of an Agile Strategy ..read more

Delivering agile business architecture is becoming an essential skill for digital transformation, which is one of the greatest business challenges of our time. Delivering it successfully requires a level of agility that traditional enterprise architecture struggles to cope with. Planning and developing architectural concepts upfront are essential, but it needs to be done differently. Long gone are the days when hermetic enterprise architecture operating models were developed in a silo. Today, enterprise architects need to design, architect, prioritize, and deliver initiatives and projects with ..read more

Enterprise architecture needs sufficient resources to plan and map proper customer-driven business architecture, but the 3 domains of IT architecture should not be neglected, which are application/service, information/data, and technology/infrastructure. The Importance of Value in Business Architecture The business architecture domain within enterprise architecture is not just about business capabilities and business processes. It is foremost about optimizing value for your customers and contributing to building a more customer-driven organization. Traditionally, business processes have been t ..read more

Electric, gas, and water utility companies need to become more customer-driven. They need to maximize their customer's lifetime value by using predictive analytics, becoming more proactive, offering appealing value propositions to each one of their customer segments, and making sure that they continually transform themselves with grounded capability-based initiatives and projects targeting customer-driven outcomes. Business and enterprise architects can become essential in the transformation of their organization into a more agile and customer-driven enterprise a few initiatives at a time. Ben ..read more

Pharmaceutical, life science, medical device, biotechnology, and generic drugs companies need to become more patient-driven. They need to maximize their patient's lifetime value by using predictive analytics, becoming more proactive, offering appealing value propositions to each one of their patient segments, and making sure that they continually transform themselves with grounded capability-based initiatives and projects targeting patient-driven outcomes. Business and enterprise architects can become essential in the transformation of their organization into a more agile and patient-driven en ..read more

Telecom carriers, cable/TV companies, mobile carriers, internet service providers need to become more customer-driven. They need to maximize their customer's lifetime value by using predictive analytics, becoming more proactive, offering appealing value propositions to each one of their customer segments, and making sure that they continually transform themselves with grounded capability-based initiatives and projects targeting customer-driven outcomes. Business and enterprise architects can become essential in the transformation of their organization into a more agile and customer-driven ente ..read more

Manufacturers need to become more customer-driven. They need to maximize their customer's lifetime value by using predictive analytics, becoming more proactive, offering appealing value propositions to each one of their customer segments, and making sure that they continually transform themselves with grounded capability-based initiatives and projects targeting customer-driven outcomes. Business and enterprise architects can become essential in the transformation of their organization into a more agile and customer-driven enterprise a few initiatives at a time. Benchmark Consulting, the creato ..read more

Retailers need to become more customer-driven. They need to maximize their customer's lifetime value by using predictive analytics, becoming more proactive, offering appealing value propositions to each one of their customer segments, and making sure that they continually transform themselves with grounded capability-based initiatives and projects targeting customer-driven outcomes. Business and enterprise architects can become essential in the transformation of their organization into a more agile and customer-driven enterprise a few initiatives at a time. Benchmark Consulting, the creators o ..read more

Retail banks, commercial banks, wholesale banks, wealth management firms, trading services companies, venture capital firms, and insurance companies need to become more customer-driven. They need to maximize their customer's lifetime value by using predictive analytics, becoming more proactive, offering appealing value propositions to each one of their customer segments, and making sure that they continually transform themselves with grounded capability-based initiatives and projects targeting customer-driven outcomes. Business and enterprise architects can become essential in the transformati ..read more