The 2020’s Enterprise with Sam Holcman
The 2020’s Enterprise is about sorting through the internet-driven advice madness that exists in business today. The great thing about the internet is that anyone can write anything about anything. The problem with the internet is that anyone can write anything about anything! Published practices are quite different than “best practices.” This program will provide practice-based insights in business transformation, organizational transformation and technology transformation, based on real world practices. Business executives, managers, practitioners, and staff are bombarded daily with utopian solutions that more often than not deliver significantly less than promised. This show is “no jargon,” just human communication. Be treated like a “customer” not a “user.” Our philosophy is to provide you with insights that can provide true value to organizations and individuals that face today’s and tomorrow’s competitive pressures, and provide a usable takeaway from each program.
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May 27, 2020 • 53 min
The Coronavirus COVID19 pandemic is the latest in a long list of disruptors to established business models. Whether it is competitors, technology, natural disasters, foreign or domestic threats, a disruption, or the next occurrence of an unknown, businesses are recognizing that change is the new normal.
This emerging reality does not begin with a new technology. Technology may enable what we refer to as a series of business and mis...
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May 20, 2020 • 52 min
My guest on today’s episode of The 2020’s Enterprise with Sam Holcman is Ken Metviner. Ken has a very interesting and fresh perspective on the what the future holds as we move out of the most current crisis we are in. Yes, as I state, this will unfortunately, not be the last crisis, and perhaps we should look at consumer behavior with a bit more logic than just believe it is a “random walk”.
Ken will outline a perspective that w...
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May 13, 2020 • 56 min
Technology has changed the way companies deliver their marketing message but has not changed basic marketing principles. Customer data is the most valuable asset a company has. Customers use reviews as a way of deciding which company to do business with. Consumers expect an instant and friction-less experience with the companies they do business with. Data and customer information allow companies to hyper-target their marketing...
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May 6, 2020 • 59 min
In this unique view of distance learning, we will be speaking with three college students, from three different universities, on their personal experiences in this, in some cases very new learning environment. School closures have led educational institutions everywhere to scramble to move instruction to an online format. It is unfortunate, that once again, proper planning seems to have given way to crisis management and implemen...
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April 29, 2020 • 55 min
If you are reading this post or tuning into our broadcast in the April 2020 timeframe, you and your organization, and our organization are in a bit of a turmoil situation. Pressures are coming from an incredible number of directions, and focus is easily lost and replaced by motions and actions that substitute for planned actions and strategies. Focus, consistency, coordinated actions, and efficiencies are more important “in the n...
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April 22, 2020 • 55 min
The cloud is often discussed as offering the potential for better technology and business agility, but moving computing resources has two sides. The benefits are often mentioned and discussed. Some information technology leaders are learning that running certain applications in the cloud can cost more than doing so on-premises, and can add complexity and security concerns not fully appreciated in the “rush” to the cloud, leading ...
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A new reality has been set in the world. That reality is the movement of people and goods, globally, provides a new set of opportunities and challenges, which specifically cannot be predicted, but should be anticipated. Today's crisis is the disease, coronavirus disease, (COVID-19), and the virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). And the next could be another virus. It could be an internet outage...
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April 8, 2020 • 55 min
What triggered my thoughts in developing this Episode was YAF. What is YAF? YAF is Yet Another Framework! What I am referring to is a consortium of academics, industry, and government people that, I am sure with upright and thoughtful intentions, published YAF on enterprise architecture. This YAF was going to take all of the other YAF’s and bring them all together. As a veteran of Enterprise Architecture and frameworks, all I ...
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We have all turned, to some degree, to a short-term focus in both our personal and business lives. We all have to deal with reality. The question is how do you address both short and longer term issues and opportunities. In the short term, we need to identify areas for optimization, while understanding the effects of this optimization in future operations. The question is can we use a “scalpel”, rather than a “meat clever” to i...
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In this focused edition of the 2020’s Enterprise program, we will look at this Pandemic through the eyes of Enterprise and Business Architecture. A robust architecture methodology is a tool we can use to analyze things that are complex, and we are seeing significant complexity in this situation!
But wait! If you are not a medical professional, why should you listen to this episode? Perhaps in this hour, we can provide some expl...
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March 18, 2020 • 55 min
Just what is an Enterprise Architecture (EA) Health Assessment?
The “health” assessment of your Enterprise Architecture will provide you an informed, independent perspective of your strategic EA asset’s viability as a foundational resource to
• fully understand and reveal your Enterprise Business, Technology, and Systems Relationships;
• communicate your Business Intent concisely through a consistent vocabulary, and uncomplica...
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March 11, 2020 • 55 min
Make to Order, Provide from Stock, Assemble to Order. The three maturity levels that are understood and tried and true in the manufacturing community. In the information technology community, most organizations reside in the Make to Order maturity level (level one), and are attempting to “speed things up” with techniques like agile programming, containers, “low code” and numerous other approaches – all within the level one maturi...
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March 4, 2020 • 55 min
In this age of digital transformation, big data, cloud computing, and numerous other actions you may be undertaking or thinking about in your organization, one fundamental fact remains. What we in organizations are doing is processing data. Technology departments in organizations have many names nowadays. But fundamentally, they are doing what we did for the past five decades or so – processing data. We may be doing it differen...
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February 26, 2020 • 57 min
Luke is the President/CEO at Retail Band, where he aims to help businesses sell appliances through online channels and allow their market to grow and expand. He has extensive product development and entrepreneurial experience. Luke and his team are especially adept at creating product launch strategies at a wide variety of ecommerce sites like Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart, Costco, Wayfair, Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl’s and ...
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February 19, 2020 • 55 min
The movement of some applications to the cloud are well underway. With this movement, of course, comes observations both pro and con. No panic of course, just things to watch out for. Since the most basic view of the cloud can be stated quite simply as running your applications on someone else's computer, We will cover the good stuff and gotchas - some obvious and some hidden. Cloud Management is an area that is just beginn...
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February 12, 2020 • 55 min
Our EACOE Enterprise Architecture practice has looked at security as part of Enterprise Architecture, not as a separate activity. Simply, the objective is ensuring only authorized access to a process or a data component. Starting with this objective – not after the fact – is key. In the physical world, look at the game-changer brought about by the Ring doorbell – warn me before someone enters the house, rather than telling me so...
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February 5, 2020 • 55 min
Have you looked at your “smart phone” and its “agility” – your ability to change what you see with a simple press on the screen, and compared it to your internal technology systems or those that you provide to your customers? In summary, what you are seeing is a manufacturing concept called Mass Customization. This term was first introduced to the public by Stan Davis in his book Future Perfect in 1987.
Customer-focused means ju...
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January 29, 2020 • 55 min
You want a road map to clearly define what needs to be done to enable your Business or Mission Strategy. No one wants a series of seemly endless “sprints” not knowing where the goal line is. You want to know what your end state objective is and how to get there. No one wants to be lectured to for hours on frameworks, and methodologies, and so-called best practices. You want to be able to clearly identify a set of mutually exclu...
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January 22, 2020 • 55 min
Major analyst and advisory firms now recognize two distinct focus areas in Enterprise Architecture – (1) focus on technology enablement, and (2) focus on facilitating and creating deliverables that guide and inform business decision making – enabling Business Strategy.
In this Episode of the 2020’s Enterprise, we will outline what is required to develop a Business Outcome Driven Enterprise Architecture Deliverables, and the skill-...
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January 15, 2020 • 56 min
Being data driven, achieving digital transformation, developing effective marketing campaigns, making valid business decisions, and ensuring regulatory compliance, are just a few of the things businesses and enterprises do, that requires good quality data – not data – good quality data. Yet study after study shows the shockingly low self-reported beliefs on how good the data that is used by businesses actually is.
Hundreds of mil...
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