Asif Gill Blogs

The emerging new digital ways of working, living and trends such Agile, Analytics, Big Data, Blockchain, Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile and Social require fundamental shift in design and implementation of enterprise architecture (EA). Traditional documentation-driven EA approach often falls short when a fast collaborative response is required to deal with the always changing demands of customers. It is not only about APIs, service orientation or micro services etc. We need more customer-centric and actionable value proposition oriented (VPO) adaptive EA approaches. How to harvest an adaptive EA practice? Here are some important points to start with from your customer perspective. 1) Who are you? Look at EA practice and role from customer perspective.     2) What do you do? Look at your service offerings from customer perspective. 3) Why does it matter? Look at the value propositi...

Resilience is the ability to proactively monitor, analyse, predict and act to effectively defend (protection), respond (sustainment) and evolve (adaptation) in response to expected and unexpected disruptions. Being resilient is challenging for industry, government and community living or operating in a highly dynamic environment. Lack of an effective resilience capability or practice would lead to frequent undesirable situations or service disruptions resulting in poor service quality and customer or citizen satisfaction, and may potentially cause regulatory, wellbeing or financial implications. There are a number of factors that need to be actively monitored and analysed for effective analytics-enabled resilient digital-physical ecosystem.   These factors could include and are not limited to: Environmental Financial Infrastructure Wellbeing Political Regulatory Social Technological Our recent work on “ adaptive enterprise resilience management ” has be...

Future Adaptive Digital Ecosystems Sharing some thoughts................ Being ...... Being agile, adaptive, innovative, resilient and smart is imperative for enterprises to survive and thrive in this most amazing period of change. Digital ecosystems........ New ways of working, living, technological trends such as agile, analytics, big data, block chain, cloud, Internet of things (IoT), mobility, social media including smart cities, smart banking and smart living demand fundamental shift in the design and implementation of enterprise strategy and architecture for emerging digital ecosystems. Customer-centricity........ A customer-centric and analytics-enabled adaptive enterprise strategy and architecture implementation approach is required to continuously operate, improve, grow and transform in response to expected and unexpected changes or disruptions. Unnecessarily....... Unnecessarily long term strategies and inflexible architectures become irrelevant and bottle...

In my last post, I explained the " AdaptiveThinking " for continuous efficiency (routine changes and continuous improvement) and innovation (growth and transformation). This post further discusses the "Adaptive Enterprise Value Chain” and related integrated capabilities of strategy and operations ( StrOps), architecture and operations (ArcOps) and development and operations (DevOps) from The Gill Framework® V.30.  Figure 1. Adaptive Enterprise Value Chain The Gill Framework® provides the ADOMS approach for the adaptive enterprise value chain, which is made of following five capabilities: -  Adapting  (to changes) -  Defining  (an adaptive capability) -  Operating  (an adaptive capability ) -  Managing  (an adaptive capability) -  Supporting  (an adaptive capability) The adapting capability offer services (e.g. context awareness, enterprise architecture assessment, rationalisation, realisat...

Adaptive thinking is imperative to survive and thrive in this amazing period of change. Being adaptive requires the ability to actively scan and identify changes (internal and external) based on both the intuitions and analytics, and effectively respond to such changes for continuous efficiency (operations and improvement) and innovation (growth and transformation). See figure 1 from Gill (2015) – Adaptive Cloud Enterprise Architecture Book. Figure 1.  The Gill Framework® V3.0 – Adapting to change (from Gill 2015) Adaptive thinking is a complex  phenomenon  and has several facets. This post discusses the following key elements of “ adaptive thinking ” (based on Gill 2013; Gill 2015; Gill et al. 2015). Agility Analytics Service Science Design Thinking Resiliency Systems Thinking Agility is the ability of an adaptive entity that is responsive, flexible, fast (to accommodate expected or unexpected changes rapidly), lean (follows the shorte...

Agile methods originated in the context of individual software project development and management can be scaled up to meet the agile or adaptive enterprise project management needs. However, the question is how to create an enterprise level agile project management capability. This post provides the snapshot of the generic Adaptive Enterprise Project Management capability (See Figure 1) from The Gill Framework® V2.0. The Gill Framework ®  is a meta-framework for architecting agile enterprises as adaptive enterprise service systems. The Gill Framework ® was first originated in 2006 to support agile and hybrid development capability establishment and improvement for complex and large project environments. It was then further evolved to support architecting service-centric agile enterprises. The Gill Framework ®   has been used to create the generic Adaptive Enterprise Project Management capability, which can be tailored to a specific context. Figure 1: T...

The adoption of agile software development practice and tools is challenging. It would be appropriate to gradually introduce and improve agile practices and tools into large and complex software intensive organizations . The Agility Adoption and Improvement Model first first developed and published in 2007 and then was updated in 2010 as "AAIM Version 2.0". AAIM V2.0 has been developed based on the intensive research in agile adoption @ a large scale. The AAIM can be used as a roadmap or guide for agile transformation. Organizations or teams can adopt and improve agile people, practices and tools environment in order to achieve specific agile level(s) (e.g. focus one level at a time). This article describes the six stages or levels of the AAIM V2.0.   The Agility Adoption and Improvement Model Version 2.0 (Copyright Asif Q. Gill) The AAIM is structured into white, green and black blocks and 6 levels...