Asif Gill Blogs

Adaptive or agile architecture design [artifact] and practice [activity of design] involves storytelling. In this post, I would like to share some of my experience from recent projects in the form of a following Architecture Storytelling Viewpoint template. Context : Policies, Principles, Strategies, Environment, Business Model, Operating Model ... 1. [Stakeholders] It starts with subject or area of interest [ Who ]  i.e. Person, Role, Organisation, Department, Division. Here focus is on identifying, understanding, prioritizing, estimating, planing and classifying the [Who] stakeholders (the most important part of the architecture) with certain area of interest (e.g. Marketing, Sales, People and Culture, Finance). You can design stakeholders map and empathy map to elicit "Who" for a certain area of interest . This is really about stakeholders or customer-centric architecture as opposed to an IT centric architecture. AS a Stakeholder..... 2. [Concerns] This ...

Leadership is hard and success is even harder. It depends how you define leadership and success for your personal context? Over a period of last two decades , I worked with and mentored by a number of intelligent people. This post shares my personal reflections and learnings  so far in 5 principles, which are part of my persona and still evolving. Personalisation  Persuasiveness  Patience  Persistence Progressive Personalisation  Personal respect, recognition and  individualisation of interactions or dealings or transactions rather being rude or vague or too generic. Persuasiveness Being able to influence through reasoning and demonstration rather imposing or enforcing decisions. Patience Being able to tolerate, listen and facilitate rather being harsh and unhelpful while others are catching up. Persistence Being able to stay calm, steadfast and steady the ship in response to difficult or challenging situation.Roll the ball everyday. Pr...

Sharing some thoughts about roles in information economy Information Minister Information Secretory Information Commissioner Information Governor Information Manger Information Strategist Information Economist Information Architect  Information Analyst Information Engineer Information Administrator Information Auditor Information Broker Information Provider Information Creator Information Consumer Your thoughts?

In my last post, I discussed about the customer-centric value proposition oriented adaptive architecture for enabling business sustainment, optimisation, innovation and transformation. This post further expands on the role of an adaptive architect. An adaptive architect needs to be embedded in the business to understand the stakeholders' concerns and viewpoints from within the internal business and external business operating environment perspectives. An adaptive architect can assume different roles to address different stakeholders' concerns. Analyst and Synthesist Collaborator Co-creator Coach Consultant  Doctor (Business Health Checks & Surgery for Sustainment, Improvement and Transformations ) Innovator  Servant Leader  Thought Leader  Trusted Advisor  Trainer Transition Manager More.... What are your thoughts? Thanks.    

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...