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📑 Getting Critical Success Factors (CSFs) RightA company's performance is determined by the quality of its decisions, es...
09/09/2026

📑 Getting Critical Success Factors (CSFs) Right

A company's performance is determined by the quality of its decisions, especially during times of change. When initiating change, project management success and project success are not synonymous.

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📑 Standard Business Requirements ChecklistYou can rely on having a typical check list of what type of business requireme...
09/09/2026

📑 Standard Business Requirements Checklist

You can rely on having a typical check list of what type of business requirements every project may need. This is important because sometimes in the midst of the requirements development, some obvious areas are ignored like policies and reporting. It is therefore important to have a check list to ensure a broad set of potential requirements:

▫️ Communications
▫️ Competition
▫️ Customers
▫️ Data
▫️ External Factors
▫️ Financial
▫️ People
▫️ Process
▫️ Regulations/Policies
▫️ Reporting
▫️ Safety
▫️ Security
▫️ Suppliers
▫️ Technology

It is beneficial to categorize these in order to trace the requirement and the associated user story.

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09/09/2026

Mastering Capability Maps: Visualizing Strategy with Clarity

As architects, we often default to visuals—but are we communicating effectively? In this conversation with Dr. Raj Ramesh, Deirdre Caren, Omar Gawad, and Alain Picard, we explore how capability maps can shift the conversation from static documents to strategic insight.

✔️ Highlight AI and automation
✔️ Prioritize capabilities
✔️ Provide business context through visuals

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📑 Personal SWOT, what to do next...Once you have filled out the matrix, there are two ways to analyze the information an...
09/09/2026

📑 Personal SWOT, what to do next...

Once you have filled out the matrix, there are two ways to analyze the information and build a strategy; matching or converting.

◽ Matching means connecting two of the categories to determine a course of action.
◽ To convert is to turn negatives into positives — in other words, converting your weaknesses into strengths, or threats into opportunities.

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09/09/2026

AI, Data, and Conceptual Modeling: A Perfect Match?

How do AI, data, and conceptual modeling come together to create impactful solutions? In this insightful discussion, Andreas Galatoulas and Deirdre Caren explore why starting with a logical model—a shared language framework—is critical before implementing AI or building databases.

They also discuss the role of large language models (LLMs) as a starting point for problem-solving and why organizational context is essential for AI solutions to be relevant and effective.

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📑 How do you ensure quality of requirements?Even though the needs of the stakeholder who will use the requirements or de...
08/09/2026

📑 How do you ensure quality of requirements?

Even though the needs of the stakeholder who will use the requirements or designs are what determine quality in the end, we still have to write our requirements using a quality standard and this means writing them in a way anyone can understand what they mean:

▫️ Atomic
▫️ Completed
▫️ Consistent
▫️ Concise
▫️ Clear
▫️ Testable
▫️ Prioritized
▫️ Understandable

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📑 Putting it all TogetherThere are many different ways in which to write a background statement. In this article we disc...
08/09/2026

📑 Putting it all Together

There are many different ways in which to write a background statement. In this article we discuss the "inverted pyramid style" as being the most appropriate when writing this type of background statement. This approach calls for impartiality and organising a scenario so that the most crucial information is presented first to allow for quick reading.

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📑 What distinguishes CSFs from project management success factorsNot all researchers agree on what constitutes a success...
08/09/2026

📑 What distinguishes CSFs from project management success factors

Not all researchers agree on what constitutes a successful project. It is old and narrow-minded to evaluate a project's success or failure solely on time, cost, and quality criteria. For instance, if we were building a house, even if the builder met the criteria in terms of time, cost, and quality, it doesn't mean that you are happy with the outcome. They could be using quality paint, but it's not the colour you like, or the kitchen products are quality, but the flow doesn't work and you have to walk to a different room to get the pantry. In the same way, for a business, there are some critical success factors that matter, like customer satisfaction, reputation, revenue, and improved operations. So even if you did deliver in terms of time, cost, and quality, did it meet your critical success factors?

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📹 The Effectiveness of Design ThinkingIn this great video by Harvard Business Review, they help answer the question "Wha...
07/09/2026

📹 The Effectiveness of Design Thinking

In this great video by Harvard Business Review, they help answer the question "What is Design Thinking". As the design process becomes more complicated, a new barrier emerges: stakeholder acceptance of what we can term "the designed artefact" - whether product, user experience, strategy, or complex system.

The transformation of Procter & Gamble's skincare brand, Oil of Olay, demonstrates the power of design thinking. The team started by empathising with customers and discovered a significant untapped market - women in their 30s and 40s. With these insights, they defined their problem, developed prototypes, and tested various price points and store displays. As a result, a well-received product line opened up a new market segment.

The profound implications of design thinking for both business analysts and business architects become clearer when viewed through the lens of the Procter & Gamble case study.

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⭐ ECBA Master Class Course Review…"The Knowledge Brief I really enjoyed the course. Allowed me to understand how everyth...
07/09/2026

⭐ ECBA Master Class Course Review…

"The Knowledge Brief

I really enjoyed the course. Allowed me to understand how everything fits together. In the projects we only do a part of the work and do not see the full picture. This will help me in the next project work. Really keen to use all the knowledge gained in this course. Using the ChatGPT was awesome. I got some really insightful information outputs when I used the ChatGPT. I feel this is a course that you will always go back to when you need a refresher. Thank you so much Deirdre". - Reena G

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