Effort focused on visioning, designing, sequencing, planning and developing an asset or system that will provide value in the future.
This type of effort requires a creative cognitive context, where the person(s) developing the outcome are heads-down when working alone, and participate in creative rituals when working as a group.
Future cost associated with past-and-present shortcuts taken from a functional perspective, including lack-of-investment in: sufficient analysis of business risk, change management, business rules, process modeling and full understanding of customer needs Manifests as a cost in the present, beared by functional practitioners, the payments of which come in the form of limitations on innovation and…
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The fashioning of technology using machine language, programming languages or infrastructural configurations to serve the utility of a human endeavor. The “how” is most often executed by technical practitioners.
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The justification for embarking upon an organizational development effort (i.e. to work on the business), which determines the resources and priority allocated to the breadth (the “what“), depth (the “how“) and the urgency (the “when“) of delivering a solution. The “why” is often driven by a combination of stakeholders, including functional practitioners, visionary practitioners and…
