Architecture, Data and Intelligence

A couple of questions came in on my phone, and I thought I'd share my answers here. When is a Business Requirements Document good enough...

A study from Accenture exposes a disconnect between the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), with only one...

Some partial and selective notes from the RESG meeting on Brownfield Requirements Engineering , held at BCS headquarters on October 12th 201...

Let's suppose an organization suffers from a number of the symptoms of organizational stupidity and decides to do something about it. (...

Much writing on systems architecture, requirements engineering and related disciplines starts from the premise of a distinction between prob...

# entarch @ BBCRadio4 Just listening to a business story on the radio: the music retailer HMV is now going to be selling clothes from its...

@ sbskmi gave an excellent presentation at the RESG AGM yesterday evening, offering a survey of sensemaking tools. Simon's research g...

Brown-Field Requirements One view of requirements engineering is that its purpose is to produce a complete and coherent statement of what so...

@ markgould13 tells us why the silo doesn't work Of course they do work - after a fashion. As Mark points out, they are resilient str...

Another good post from @ tetradian on business rules in response to James Taylor’s recent piece reporting Gartner's view that Business...

by Ronald G Ross. Third Edition: Getting to the Point of Knowledge. Business Rule Solutions 2009. ISBN 0-941049-07-8 A copy of this book ...

Redmonk's James Governor reports from a Logica briefing "nice! UK Medical Research Council pays more money to its call center supp...

Cross-posted to the new CBDI Forum group on Linked-In . Am currently pulling together material on business improvement for an article in t...

I agree completely with Nick Malik when he objects to Non-Functional Requirements: the "All-Other" classification . It is certai...

The Harvard Business Review has just discovered SOA - and guess what? It's like Lego bricks! The article is written by Ric Merrifield of...

Andrew Johnston comes away from the 2008 Enterprise Architecture Conference in London worried about A Shortage of Analysts . One of the majo...

Nick Malik asks about the relationship between capability model and process modelling. "If your company is a process oriented one (or ...

Jan Kettenis has written a long and eloquent post defending Use Cases as a method of describing Business Requirements: About Business Proces...

I have developed an abstract business metamodel, which underlies the CBDI's approach to business modelling for SOA. I have de...

One of the problems of Business Intelligence (BI) is that you cannot define static information needs for advanced BI requirements such as da...