Lecture 6
Lecture 6
Lecture 6
LECTURE 6
CULTURE
The sum total of the beliefs, rules, techniques, institutions, and artifacts that characterize human populations or the collective programming of the mind. Socialization The process of enculturation, or the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
CULTURE
Corporate culture
The shared values, traditions, customs, philosophy, and policies of a corporation; also, the professional atmosphere that grows from this and affects behavior and performance.
The growing similarity between national cultures, including the beliefs, values, aspirations, and the preferences of consumers, partly driven by global brands, media, and common global icons
The psychic or psychological level, which focuses on the internalized norms, attitudes, and behavior of individuals from a particular culture (psychic distance is a measure of differences between groups). The institutional level, which looks at national (or group) culture embodied in institutions (government, education, and economic institutions as well as in business organizations).
Getting answers to 32 statements from over 116,000 questionnaires, he mapped key cultural characteristics of these countries according to four value dimensions
The extent to which people are supposed to take care of themselves and be emotionally independent from others. Masculinity: is the value attributed to achievement, assertiveness, and material success (Japan, Mexico, Germany, UK) as opposed to the stereotypical feminine values of relationships, modesty, caring, and the quality of life (Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark), according to Hofstede .
sequence of events) versus synchronic (several events juggled at the same time) views of time tend to relate to punctuality for meetings and deadlines. Swedes and other northern European cultures tend to be punctual and plan according to specific timetables. Many southern European, Latin American, and Arabic cultures see punctuality and chronological precision as far less important. They also tend to naturally cope with a range of issues simultaneously, rather than one by one.
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Gender differentiation. The degree to which gender role differences are maximized: South Korea, Egypt, India, and China are high; Hungary, Poland, and Denmark are low.
9. Humane orientation. An emphasis on Fairness, Altruism, and generosity: Ireland ,Malaysia, and Egypt are high; Germany, Spain,France, Singapore, and Brazil are low.
Business Analysis
Enterprise Analysis
Business Analysis activities that take place for organizations to (1) Identify business opportunities, and build their Business Architecture framework, and (2) Determine the optimum project investment path for the enterprise, including implementation of new business & technical system solutions
Enterprise Analysis
Business Analysis activities that take place for organizations to (1) (2) Identify business opportunities, and build their Business Architecture framework, and Determine the optimum project investment path for the enterprise, including implementation of new business & technical system solutions The Enterprise Analysis Knowledge Area consists of the collection of pre-project activities for capturing the future view of the business to provide context to project requirements elicitation solution design for a given initiative and/or for long-term planning.
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Enterprise Analysis
During Enterprise Analysis activities, the Business requirements for future project investments are identified and documented. Business requirements are defined as higher level statements of the goals, objectives, or needs of the enterprise. As project management matures into a critical management discipline, organizations tend to realize that managing projects has two dimensions: (1) investing in the most valuable projects, and (2) planning, executing and controlling project activities to attain the business value as early as possible. In order to ensure they are investing in the most valuable projects, management needs accurate, consistent and useful information about initiatives that are currently funded as well as proposed new ventures.
Enterprise Analysis
Competitive advantage is now organizations ability to rapidly solutions, to efficiently use. linked to an deploy business
Technology to support business processes, and to adapt these solutions as the business need evolve.
Projects must not only deliver high quality products faster, better, and cheaper (traditionally the responsibility of the project manager), they are also under intense scrutiny to positively impact the bottom line (increasingly, the joint responsibility of the project manager, project sponsor, and the Business Analyst).
Enterprise Analysis
Enterprise Analysis
Enterprise Analysis
Strategic Planning Strategic goals are then converted into an organized, actionable, measurable framework to attain the results that are intended:An effective approach to execute strategy is to convert strategic goals and objectives into strategic themes as the building blocks of the strategy. (1)reduce costs through on-line customer ordering, (2) increase the number of high value customers through acquisitions, and (3)increase revenue per customer by increasing the services provided per customer. (4) For each strategic theme, context, objectives and measures of success are developed
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In complex organizations, it is becoming a widespread practice for senior Business Analysts to focus on the development and maintenance of the Business Architecture. The purpose of the Business Architecture is to provide a unified structure and context that guides selection and management of programs and projects. The Business Architecture is a set of documentation that defines an organizations current and future capabilities. The Business Architecture describes the businesses strategy, its long term goals and objectives, the high level business environment through a process or functional view, the technological environment, and the external environment. It also defines the relevant stakeholders, such as the government, regulatory agencies, customers, employees, etc.
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Whereas, the rows of the framework describe the different perspectives of the enterprise:
Scope Business Model System Model Technology Model Detailed Representations.
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This model develops documents, tables, matrices, graphs, models and organizes them in the following categories
Process the business processes that flow value from the organization to the customer. Organization the organizational entities that operate the business processes, including the management teams, staff positions, roles, competencies, knowledge and skills.
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Location the location of the business units and other organizational entities,e.g., call centers, distribution centers, etc.
Data the data and information that is the currency of the organization, flowing through the processes to accomplish the business functions. Applications the information technology (IT) applications that enable the business processes to operate efficiently and provide decision-support information to the management team.
Technology the enabling technology that supports the operation of the processes and applications
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