What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified

By: Roland Woldt / J-M Erlendson
  • Summary

  • This show is about Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management, and how you can set up your practice to get the most out of it. It is for newbies who just get started with these topics, organizations who want to improve their EA/BPM groups (and the value that they get from it), as well as practitioners who want to get a different perspective and care about the discipline. Learn more about the show and read articles about EA and BPM on www.whatsyourbaseline.com. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whatsyourbaseline/support
    Roland Woldt / J-M Erlendson
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Episodes
  • Ep. 77 - Mergers & Acquisitions: Luca de Risi and Nick Reed
    Oct 21 2024

    There was a big splash in the Enterprise Architecture tool market a few weeks ago - BizzDesign announced that they will merge with Mega and an unnamed third party (which we will learn about in Q4 soon, but cannot name here at this time). But why these two (three) players and why now?

    Since we know some people in the industry, I reached out to Luca de Risi from Mega and we quickly came up with the idea of doing a show about Mergers & Acquisitions and not only talk about the current example, but also more generally about ownership models, how M&A comes together, and what that means for the involved organizations.

    Our first guest doesn't need an introduction since he has been on the show already: Luca de Risi. Luca is Mega’s Chief Executive Officer and he held various leadership positions at the firm before that, like, being the country manager for the APAC business while being located in Singapore, or as Business Development Executive in the United States. He started his career as an internal auditor for a major French car maker before joining Mega.

    Our second guest is Nick Reed, the Chief Strategy Officer of BizzDesign. He is a senior software and services leader with a successful track record of building and leading teams in high growth software technology companies. Strategy development and execution, M&A, value proposition development, strategic partnerships and analyst relations. Nick builds long term relationships with customers, with a relentless focus on business value and customer success and is a strong cross-functional team player, connecting the dots across sales, marketing, product, services and customer success for strategic initiatives.

    In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:

    • Luca’s and Nick’s backgrounds
    • Forms of ownership and the impact on an organization’s strategy
    • What are the reasons (and timing) to acquire another organization
    • Criteria to check if you are a match
    • Impact of a merger on customers and products
    • What is the process of mergers and acquisitions
    • What is the impact on the organization(s)?
    • How is the product strategy affected?

    Luca and Nick can be reached on LinkedIn. More detailed information about the merger is available here: https://bizzdesign.com/bizzdesign-merger-enterprise-transformation/.

    Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.

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    55 mins
  • Ep. 76 - BPM/EA Misconceptions: Caspar Jans & Russell Gomersall
    Oct 7 2024

    Oh, why do I need a special EA/BPM tool? I am managing my apps in a spreadsheet just fine. That is one of the misconceptions that I have heard over the last twenty-something years of me helping clients to stand up practices and increase their EA/BPM maturity. And there are tons more of those ...

    Well, our first guest doesn't need an introduction since he has been on the show already: Caspar Jans. But for those of you who don't know him, he is not only working in the BPM space for decades but is also the co-host of the BPM360 Podcast, being recognized as a Top 50 voice in operational excellence by the PEX / Process Excellence Network in 2023, and he writes a newsletter on LinkedIn.

    Our second guest is Russell Gomersall, who is the other co-host of the BPM360 Podcast and is a Senior Partner at bpExperts GmbH. His expertise lies in developing and applying the BusinessFlows-MetamodeI, bpExperts proprietary method for process-centric business transformations, and leading the TechLab, their competence center for technology-driven process optimization. Russell also act as the Chief Cheerleader and Value Owner of Passion, one of his core values, and fosters a culture of enthusiasm, engagement, and collaboration among bpExpert's team and customers.

    In this episode of the podcast we are talking about (and I am not sure if we used all of the misconceptions below, but so be it):

    • Russell's and Caspar's backgrounds
    • Architecture Usage
    • Projects
    • What is all the fuzz about this stuff?
    • How to use the tools / the discipline
    • Skills

    Caspar is easy to reach on LinkedIn and also has a website that contains his writings (and his newsletter "Process Extraordinaire Weekly" on LinkedIn here). Russel can be found on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellgomersall/.

    You can find their podcast BPM360 wherever you get your podcasts or on their website: https://www.bpm360podcast.com/.

    Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Ep. 75 - Business Architecture For A New Product: Mike DeCamp
    Sep 23 2024

    Do you need Business Architects when creating a new product? Isn't that a bit redundant when you have highly-paid Product Managers already? Or is there an overlap between the two that will create a better product for the end users, but also for the organization because they can better support it and it is aligned with the underlying process.

    Our guest this week is Mike DeCamp, who has over 15 years of professional experience in business analysis, project management, and process improvement. He is a Senior Product Manager at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), one of the world's leading cancer research and treatment centers.

    Mike has earned multiple certifications in Business Benefits Realization, Change Management, Business & Enterprise Architecture, and Financial Literacy, and is a proficient thought leader in areas of strategy development and cross functional leadership.

    In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:

    • Mike's background
    • Business Architecture - how the BA Guild defines it and how it relates to other frameworks and concepts
    • Business architecture artifacts as the value contribution to make the connection to the strategy/business model
    • How Mike applied BA to a new product in his day job at MSKCC
    • How BA provides the context when defining new projects or programs (for products, but also otherwise)
    • How to keep structures up-to-date when everything is a project

    To reach out to Mike via LinkedIn have a look here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-decamp-cba%C2%AE-02bb6b2/

    Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.


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    51 mins

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