The Value Realization Blog
How an Enterprise Architect Measures Value Realization in the Public Sector (Trends and Insights)
How do we measure value and value realization in the public sector? Public projects are typically...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 09/02/2014
How an Enterprise Architect Used Change Management Tools to Diagnose Business Problems (Trends and Insights)
A number of change management tools and models are not only useful when transforming a business or...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 08/25/2014
How an Enterprise Architect Uses Business Strategy to Drive Business Capability Development (Trends and Insights)
In the prior post, “Driving Business Transformation through Business Capabilities (Trends and...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 08/14/2014
Driving Business Transformation through Business Capabilities (Trends and Insights)
This post is the first in a series about using business capabilities to support strategic business...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 08/11/2014
How an Enterprise Architect Helps IT Innovate for Business (Trends and Insights)
Innovation is hot. There are a huge number of articles about being innovative; every company wants...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 08/04/2014
Successful CIOs Help Build Relationships: Examples (Trends and Insights)
In the prior post “Six Keys to Succeeding in the Changing Role of Enterprise CIO (Trends and...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 07/31/2014
Six Keys to Succeeding in the Changing Role of Enterprise CIO (Trends and Insights)
Recently, we surveyed a group of Microsoft Enterprise Architects to collect their observations about...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 07/29/2014
How the Internet of Things Creates New Operational Insight (Trends and Insights)
The “Internet of Things” is made up of connected sensors and devices for just about any...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 07/25/2014
Customer Insight–The New Age of the Customer (Trends and Insights)
Customer insight is a prime objective for many business scenarios using Big Data. Such scenarios...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 07/22/2014
Enabling Big Insight with Big Data (Trends and Insights)
Big Data is at the forefront of the minds of many business leaders, in different domains and...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 07/18/2014
What Happens When You Move Services out of IT? (Trends and Insights)
Microsoft Enterprise Architects have observed many businesses moving services out of the realm of...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 07/10/2014
Business Benefits and Impacts of Using the Cloud (Trends and Insights)
This article explores common objectives many companies have when using cloud technology, as well as...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 07/06/2014
10 Questions to Evaluate Security and Cloud Services
When a company begins to use cloud services, it finds itself facing new challenges to its approach...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 06/19/2014
How Businesses Are Using App Stores for Customers and Employees (Trends and Insights)
This article highlights some ways that businesses are using app stores, based on the experience and...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 06/09/2014
How Does the Role of IT within an Organization Need to Change? (Trends and Insights)
Written by Martin Sykes and Paul Lidbetter, this post is a prelude to an article they will publish...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 06/03/2014
The Program Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management Consulting Service (Introducing the Value Realization Services)
As a business moves through a program of change, strategic decisions are often required to ensure...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 05/29/2014
The Adoption and Change Management Consulting Service (Introducing the Value Realization Services)
As a business transforms, modernizes capabilities, and enables new ways of doing business, employees...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 05/28/2014
The Value Management Consulting Service (Introducing the Value Realization Services)
During a well-planned initiative to improve business capabilities, a business achieves valuable...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 05/28/2014
The Business Case Development Service (Introducing the Value Realization Services)
A business case is indispensable when a team seeks funding for a program of change. The business...
Author: David M. Meltzer Date: 05/27/2014
The Value Planning Consulting Service (Introducing the Value Realization Services)
Value Planning is one of the services that Microsoft Enterprise Architects conduct with businesses...
Author: JD Meier Date: 05/15/2014
The Portfolio Optimization Consulting Service (Introducing the Value Realization Services)
Portfolio Optimization is one of the services that Microsoft Enterprise Architects conduct with...
Author: JD Meier Date: 05/13/2014
The Architecture Options & Recommendations Consulting Service (Introducing the Value Realization Services)
Architecture Options & Recommendations is one of the services that Microsoft architects conduct...
Author: JD Meier Date: 05/09/2014
The Enterprise Agreement Value Roadmap Consulting Service (Introducing the Value Realization Services)
License Agreement Value Roadmap is one of the services that Microsoft architects conduct with...
Author: JD Meier Date: 05/01/2014
The Value Discovery Consulting Service (Introducing the Value Realization Services)
The Value Discovery Service is one of the Value Realization services that we mentioned in our...
Author: JD Meier Date: 04/29/2014