Useful Resources
The following are links, broken down by link category, to documents, websites and other sources of knowledge and materials of benefit to those undertaking the study or practice of Business Transformation and Business Architecture.
While most of the categorised links are to information generally pertaining to that topic, the category of ‘Content Sources’ is reserved for links to actual sources of down-loadable content file(s) or the means to access same.
Business TransformationGeneralGovernance & ControlInformation & DataInnovationOpen Source ApplicationsOpen Source ToolsPartnering & CollaborationProprietary ApplicationsStandards & MethodsTop Enterprise Application Areas
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Business Transformation
- American Productivity Quality Center (APQC)
An internationally recognised resource for process and performance improvement. - American Society for Production and Inventory Control (APICS)
APICS, the Association for Operations Management, is the global leader and premier source of the body of knowledge in operations management, including production, inventory, supply chain, materials management, purchasing and logistics. - BPM Institute
A peer-to-peer exchange for business process management (BPM) professionals. - Business Architecture Institute
The Business Architecture website as published by the same people that publish the Business Process Management (BPM) Institute website. - Business Architecture Working Group (BAWG)
The Business Architecture Working Group of the Object Management Group (OMG). - European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM)
EFQM is a not for profit membership foundation which for the past twenty years has shared what works between our member organisations as a way to help them implement their strategies. - KzA – Performance Transformation Specialists
KzA advises and assists, as a collective, the senior leadership team… of mid-market and larger organisations… to accelerate their business results… especially at times when they are facing difficult, strategic opportunities or problems. - Lean Enterprise Academy (LEA)
The Lean Enterprise Academy (LEA) is dedicated to pushing forward the frontiers of lean and to spreading lean to every kind of organisation. - Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI)
The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), founded in 1997 as a nonprofit education, publishing, and research organisation with a mission to advance lean thinking throughout the world. - TM Forum
TM Forum is the world’s leading industry association focused on improving business effectiveness for communications service providers and their suppliers.
General
- Itypemba.com: Top MBA Rankings
Offers a search of business school listings and admissions information. - Netizen
The worlds of technology and business. Internet, social media, entrepreneurship, twitter, facebook, blogging, google, wave.
Governance & Control
- Agile Project Management
Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle. - Association for Project Management (APM)
APM is the chartered body for the project profession. - BLR
BLR is a leading compliance information company that offers solutions that help organisations comply with statutory requirements related to employment, safety and environmental compliance. It also publishes a number of timesaving HR related templates. - Hoshin Planning Wiki
Hoshin Planning is a strategic planning/management methodology that uses a Shewhart Cycle (Plan-Do-Check-Act) to create goals, choose control points (i.e. measurable milestones) and link daily control activities to company strategy. - Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Wiki
MSP is a structured yet flexible framework. It allows you to manage and control all the activities involved in managing a programme through providing advice on organisation, processes, communication and ways of thinking. - Project Management (PM) Wiki
Project management (PM) is the discipline of planning, organising and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. - Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Wiki
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a term used by project managers and project management (PM) organisations to describe methods for analysing and collectively managing a group of current or proposed projects based on numerous key characteristics. - Resource Management (RM) Wiki
In organisational studies, resource management is the efficient and effective deployment of an organisation's resources when and where they are needed. - Workforce Management (WFM) Wiki
WFM encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce.
Information & Data
- KPI Library
KPI Library helps to find, build and share Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) online.
Innovation
- Product Development and Management Association (PDMA)
The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) is the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals.
Open Source Applications
- open4mgt
Load your data and Go Live! We are an innovative and cost-effective 'enterprise class' SaaS business solution provider. We use leading open source software, configured per an extensible business architecture, to deliver real value quickly and reliably!
Open Source Tools
- CreativeCommons.Org
Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. - GNU General Public License (GPL)
Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful, hence the creation of the GPL family of software licenses. - The Open Group
The Open Group works towards enabling access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability.
Partnering & Collaboration
- Collaboration Wiki
Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organisations work together in an intersection of common goals — for example, an intellectual endeavor that is creative in nature — by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. - Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Wiki
SRM is the discipline of working collaboratively with those suppliers that are vital to the success of your organisation so as to maximise the potential value of those relationships.
Proprietary Applications
- Timesheet Software
Orotimesheet is a leading software product for managing your timesheets. Used in more than 75 countries, it is an excellent solution for businesses of all sizes. - Unit4 ERP Software
Unit4 is a global business software company specializing in project managment, ERP and compliance software offerings for small to medium businesses and large corporations.
Standards & Methods
- Agile Software Development Wiki
Agile software development comprises various approaches to software development under which requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customer(s)/end user(s). - Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN)
BPMN will provide businesses with the capability of understanding their internal business procedures in a graphical notation and will give organisations the ability to communicate these procedures in a standard manner. - Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) Wiki
BPR is, in computer science and management, an approach aiming at improvements by means of elevating the efficiency and effectiveness of the business processes that exist within and across organisations. - EFQM Excellence Model
The EFQM Model is a globally-recognised management framework which allows organisations to achieve success by measuring where they are on the path towards transformation, helping them understand the gaps and possible solutions available, and empowering them to progress and significantly improve their organisation’s performance. - Integration DEFinition (IDEF) Wiki
IDEF is a family of modeling languages most commonly applied in the fields of process, systems and software engineering modelling. - Lean Wiki
A management practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful and thus a target for elimination. - PRINCE 2
PRINCE2 is a generic, tailorable, simple to follow project management method. - Process Classification Framework (PCF)
The APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF) is a globally recognised business process model that defines activities and processes across 12 enterprise-level operating and management categories. - Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Wiki
RFID is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. - Six-Sigma Wiki
Six-Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects (i.e. errors) and variability in manufacturing and business processes. - Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model
The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model is a process reference model that was developed and endorsed by the Supply Chain Council as the cross-industry standard diagnostic tool for supply chain management. - The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
TOGAF is a framework - a detailed method and a set of supporting tools - for developing an enterprise architecture.
Top Enterprise Application Areas
- Business Intelligence (BI) Wiki
Business intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context. - Computer Aided Design (CAD) Wiki
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology for the design of objects, real or virtual. - Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) Wiki
A CMMS software package maintains a computer database of information about an organisation’s maintenance operations. - Content Management System (CMS) Wiki
A content management system (CMS) such as a document management system (DMS) is a computer application used to manage the work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic documents. - Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Wiki
Customer relationship management (CRM) consists of the processes a company uses to track and organise its contacts with its current and prospective customers. - e-Commerce Wiki
Electronic Commerce, commonly known as (electronic marketing) e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. - Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Wiki
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is defined as the use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications. - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Wiki
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a company-wide computer software system used to manage and coordinate all the resources, information, and functions of a business from shared data stores. - Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Wiki
A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is software that is used in the laboratory for the management of samples, laboratory users, instruments, standards and other laboratory functions such as invoicing, plate management and workflow automation. - Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Wiki
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) manage and monitor work-in-process on the factory floor including manual or automatic labour and production reporting, as well as on-line inquiries and links to tasks that take place on the production floor. - Point Of Sales (POS) Wiki
Point of sales (POS) or checkout refers to both a checkout counter in a shop, and the location where a transaction occurs. - Product Lifecycle Managment (PLM) Wiki
Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. - Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Wiki
A programmable logic controller (PLC) or programmable controller is a digital computer used for the automation of electromechanical processes such as the control of machinery on factory assembly lines, amusement rides, or lighting fixtures. - Sales Force Automation (SFA) Wiki
Salesforce management systems (also sales force automation systems (SFA)) are information systems used in customer relationship management (CRM) marketing and management that help automate some sales and sales force management functions. They are often combined with a marketing information system, in which case they are often called CRM systems. - Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) Wiki
SCADA stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. It generally refers to an industrial control system: a computer system monitoring and controlling a process. - Supply Chain Management (SCM) Wiki
Provision of product and service packages required by end customers. Supply Chain Management also spans all movement and storage of raw materials. - Warehouse Management System (WMS) Wiki
A warehouse management system, or WMS, is a key part of the supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of materials within a warehouse and processes the associated transactions, including shipping, receiving, putaway and picking. - Workflow Automation (WFA) Wiki
A workflow is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as the work of a person, a group of persons, an organisation of staff or one or more simple or complex mechanisms.
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