What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified
Roland Woldt / J-M Erlendson
Recent Episodes
If you have listened to a couple of podcast episodes you know that we are true believers in that the biggest "problem" in any architecture, BPM, or Process Mining project is not the technology or the processes and other architecture views - it is the people!
Getting people along with your change is the hardest thing to do and therefore we are happy to revisit the topic of Organizational Change Management on a semi-regular basis.
Jehane has worked as a Change Management and Business Transformation lead for over 15 years working on large multinational projects in multiple industries including financial services, consulting, manufacturing, sports and entertainment, healthcare, transportation and the public sector. She likes to focus on helping clients to drive lasting change and to support teams in working better together while achieving their aims.
In her down time, Jehane enjoys coaching, reading, continuously learning and spending time with her tribe in relaxing environments like the spa...
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
- Jehane's background
- Evaluating what you actually need to make org. change management real for your audience
- The five "Whys" and the "WIIFM" (What's In It For Me?)
- Meet people where they are, not where you want them or need them to be
- Questions to ask when making a change
- How to create a compelling story
- Setting up for successful adoption
- Partnering effectively with change managers
- Common mistakes
- What makes a good Org. Change Management professional
You can reach Jehane via LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jehaneadam/.
Please reach out to us by either sending an email to [email protected] or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.
Developing a strategy for your organization seems like a mystery for a lot of people (and some organizations make a large coin from keeping that mystery), but in all reality it has a big part of “wild guesses” included. In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline Podcast we have Dan Marquez on the show, who knows a thing or two about this topic from his time at Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, or Google.
Dan is a passionate and eminently capable digital transformation professional, and also an expert in helping organizations understand and capitalize on the power of technology.
He specializes in adapting the enterprise strategies of his clients to find the real value opportunities and disruption resilience that can be powered by digital solutions. He also has deep knowledge of Operating Model and Culture design, supporting companies to drive the change necessary to make transformations sustainable.
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
- Dan’s background
- What is a “strategy”?
- What to look for when developing a strategy (and which traps to avoid)
- Explore the space by using an “intersectional strategy” method
- How to implement a strategy – duality of leadership mentalities
- PSA: style trumps substance
- Most challenges boil down to cultural problems
- Pursue an “L-shaped” transformation – focus on building foundational improvements while delivering value through narrow end-to-end use cases
Dan can be contacted via LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marquezd/.
Please reach out to us by either sending an email to [email protected] or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.
A lot of people think that the work is done when they have a process be visualized in their process mining tool and a nice dashboard is built. Nothing could be further from the truth and our guest today, Sebastian Kotulla, talks with us about why that is. To bridge the gap between visualizing data/information to knowledge as the result of the analysis Lean techniques can be applied.
Sebastian has a strong focus on and passion for digital solutions to support business transformation such as virtual factories, computer vision, AI, process mining and engines. As Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Prosci Certified Change Practitioner he's used to run and consult in transformational initiatives from concept to successful implementation.
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
- Sebastian’s background
- Define - (DMAIC and how to apply this to process mining, CRISP framework, leading and lagging indicators)
- Analysis (flow is key in Lean, different types of waste (TIMWOODS), Process Mining gives the reference points for the Control phase, Theory of constraints / bottlenecks, most of the problems are outside of the discovered process model!)
- How to prioritize which process to choose
- How to do the analysis - first look to define the problem (time analysis, Gemba)
- Fishbone to structure hypotheses (manual cluster analysis) - Find the story in your analysis, five Whys to find the systematic problems
- FMEA analysis risk analysis > risk simulation
- Design of experiments - statical method on how to design an experiment and then make predictions from the result; understand input variables better
- Advanced analysis
- A practical project example
Sebastian can be found on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-kotulla-1645ab88/ and also be contacted via email: [email protected].
Please reach out to us by either sending an email to [email protected] or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.
Welcome to Season 4 of our podcast. Today we are talking about Solution Engineering, aka Presales, and what you can expect from your vendor's solution engineers (vs. their consultants).
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
- What is a Solution Engineer?
- What is their primary job focus and their scope of work and process?
- What are Consultants (and are they different from Solution Engineers)
- What are the required skill sets for Solution Engineers (and Consultants)?
- How to work with both - when to contact, what info they need, and what to expect.
Please reach out to us by either sending an email to [email protected] or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.
Today we have a special What's Your Baseline Shorts episode for you, that has nothing to do with Enterprise Architecture or Business Process Management.
However, we think that you will like it: our guest today is Jeremy Voltz, an indie-soul musician from Toronto, Ontario, who is gracefully letting us use his music for all intros, outros, and intermissions. In this episode we are talking with him about:
- how he got into music (he has a PhD in Mathematics)
- what kind of music he produces -
- how his process works (well, at least a bit of BPM)
- and what is next for him
You can reach Jeremy at jeremyvoltzmusic.com or via his LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-voltz-758118101/.
We're closing out the episode with the full Non-Christmas Christmas song "When You're Near" by him as a small token of our appreciation for you. Please enjoy the upcoming holidays with your loved ones and we will see each other in Season 4 starting in mid-January!