Roger Burlton has just published a new book on Business Architecture and provides an overview of the basic concepts and an explanation of what led him to write the book.
Roger Burlton
Roger Burlton is Chairman of the BPTrends Board of Advisors and a Founder and Chief Consultant of BPTrends Associates. He is considered a global innovator in methods for Business Process and is recognized internationally for his thought leadership in Business Process Management. Roger has developed and chaired several high profile conferences on Advanced Business and Information Management and Business Process Management, globally. He currently chairs the annual BPM Forum at the Building Business Capability Conference in the US and the IRM UK BPM Conference in Europe and his pragmatic BPM global seminar series, started in 1991, is the longest continuous running BPM seminar in the world. Rogers is the author of the best selling book, Business Process Management: Profiting from Process and the Business Process Manifesto. He is widely recognized for his thought leadership in business process strategy, business architecture, process analysis and design and process management, measurement and governance. Roger graduated with a B.A.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto and is a certified Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.
Essentials of Business Architecture: Measuring Performance: Part 1 and Part 2
March 1, 2021 , By
In this two-part series, Roger Burlton offers some general measurement principles as well as a top-down approach to gaining the appropriate measurement data in Part 1. And, in Part 2 he deals with a bottom-up approach and details some pitfalls to avoid when using measurement information.
ESSENTIALS OF BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE: Freedom Within a Framework
October 5, 2020 , By
In earlier Columns, Roger has stressed the value of sound business architecture to the performance of the organization. In this Column, he urges practitioners not to treat the architecture as a “cookbook.” Read his useful advice on what and what not to do in implementing the elements of a business architecture.
Business Architecture Essentials: ‘Business Architecture and my Unplanned Marathon’
December 2, 2019 , By
Roger recalls participating in his second Boston Marathon and the frustration he experienced when he tried to purchase the “iconic” marathon jacket. Read why his search for the jacket turned into a “second marathon” and how his experience relates to business architecture.
Essentials of Business Architecture: Design the Business Phase
April 1, 2019 , By
In his previous Column, Roger examined the “Define the Business” phase of the business architecture approach. In this Column, he examines the next phase, Design the Business Phase, which deals with translating the strategy into structural models to enable prioritization in the subsequent two phases.
Essentials of Business Architecture: ‘The Business Architecture Concept Model: Strategic Context Phase’
January 7, 2019 , By
Through his years of experience as a business process consultant, Roger has identified and applied 4 key Business Architecture models—Strategic Concept, Business Design, Business Change and Operations. In this Column, he describes the aspects of the strategic phase.
Essentials of Business Architecture: Retaining Business Knowledge: What do you need to know?
October 1, 2018 , By
In the twelfth Column in his series on Business Architecture, Roger Burlton contends that architecture should be about more than a transformation, if the only focus is on the movement to a new product, service or a new business model, without thinking longer term, then as soon as we finish a particular change, we will need to immediately begin re-architecting all over again in the next transformation.
Essentials of Business Architecture: Developing your Concept Model: What do you manage and what do the words mean
July 2, 2018 , By
In several earlier Columns, Roger Burlton has referred to the importance of a common semantic framework in developing other architectural models. Since he began writing his Column 3 years ago, he has increasingly relied on the formal structuring of a Concept Model as the foundation of several other types of domain models. In this Column, he presents an architectural framework that has evolved to be at least as workable as his original model but much easier to communicate to practitioners.
Essentials of Business Architecture: ‘Prioritizing Process and Capability Change Part 2 “Comprehensive Treatment”‘
February 5, 2018 , By
In the tenth Column of his Essentials of Business Architecture series, Roger Burlton provides a more sophisticated method for dealing with the challenge of selecting the right problem to solve. In doing so, Roger delves more deeply into the “fast track” method possibilities he presented in Column 9 last month.
Essentials of Business Architecture: ‘Prioritizing Business and Process Change Part 1: A Fast-tracked Approach’
January 1, 2018 , By
This is the ninth Column in Roger Burlton’s series on the Essentials of Business Architecture, and it leverages all of the knowledge contained in the previous eight Columns.
