frameworks and development of supply chain information architecture

ECSCIA, European Centre of Supply Chain Information Architecture

Frameworks, supporting development of supply chain

information architectureFramework or Painwork?


Process frameworks

From art & science to engineeringto


Using open frameworks is more efficient than defining proprietary ones

Open frameworks allows actors and stakeholders in the whole extended ecosystem refer to the same definitions without the overhead of internal

training & communication that proprietary frameworks require


Represent Evaluate Optimize

Process frameworks are to organizational learning what algorithms are to machine learning.

The framework lets us represent a solution, it lets us evaluate that solution and lets us optimize.

And , it requires training….


Hierarchies are fading away

Organizations transform to

spherical

Congratulations shareholders, tough luck old school management…


Transitioning to “Digital” means goodbye to hierarchic organizations.

Processes and automation fuels the spherical organization.

Driven by command

Driven by process and automation


Spherical beats hierarchical when cashing in on Big Data, IOT, machine learning and automation.

Spherical requires structured business processes


Spherical organizations driven by processes and automation spells career death to middle management. The traditional management role of the command hierarchy adds little value when process guides employees and automation executes.


The science of creating processes…….When the traditional middle management role disappears as the hierarchy transform into spherical, an alternative career path seems to be to develop processes and “measure for improvement”. Years can be spent in scientific, artistic improvement projects defining and measuring processes.


Strategic leadership

Operative core

Middle management

Support

staff

Techno structure


Strategic leadership

Operative core

Support

staff

Techno structure

Middle management

Operative core


Frameworks transforms process development from creative science tostructured engineering


Changes organizational balance of power


The speed and quality obtained through using

frameworks kills some careers and creates

some


Achieving structured business processes by working from scratch risk draining organizations, especially when at the same time transitioning

from hierarchical to spherical.

Frameworks lessens the effort, reduces risk and offers lower threshold of entry when staff swap positions/employers

…..there is a lot of positions being swapped in spherical….


Frameworks speeds up business change


Context Frameworks

So…. That was context….

Now, lets talk frameworks.Frameworks for business process

and Enterprise architecture


Guide through steps to build EA

-TOGAF

Describe and group processes

-Supply chain council reference framework,

-APQC

Analyze and define the objects/elements needed for EA

-Zachman

Structure, understand and measure business process

-Leans, -LSS

Define and communicate strategy/goal

-Hoshin Kanri


Frameworks defining business processes & business capabilities

APICS Supply chain council

Reference Framework

APQC


Frameworks defining Enterprise Architecture

TOGAF ZACHMAN


LEAN? LSS?

Frameworks? Ways of working/methods/philosophies?


Framework to communicate and execute strategy

Hoshin Kanri


Business frameworks, SCC reference model and APQC where

defined before the consumer centric world of “Digital”, big data & IOT was everyday reality. They where

designed to describe the back office and the back end


Zachman and TOGAF where defined before “New digital”, before “Spherical”. Before SaaS and cloud, before

generation XYZ

Some might argue that they require order and structure before they can

assist creating order and structure.


Lean and LSS were defined before work life went spherical


Business capabilities

Business vision and

drivers

Architecture capability framework

Architecture development method

Enterprise continuum and tools

TOGAF

Zachman

SCC ref framework

APQC

Hoshin Kanri/ LEAN

LSS

Source Make Deliver

Plan

Return

Harvest

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New digital ; ””Always on”, ”Listen, adapt, interact,”, continuous interaction. Work together,

always in motion.

Old brick; ”Do your part well, handover” Sequential silos

that work in ”isolation”

Is the supply chain council/APICS reference model too sequential to support capability mapping for supply chain in ”new digital?”? Does it enforce

silos?

Plan Source Make Deliver

Plan

Source

Make

Deliver


APQC, too detailed, a lot of steps, how are they connected?


Preliminary

Architecture vision

Business Architecture

Information systems

Architecture

Technology Architecture

Opportunities and solutions

Migration planning

Implementation governance

Architecture change

management

Requirements management

TOGAFADM

Who cares & dares to give EA that large a

role?


Zachman

Why How What Who Where When

Contextual

Conceptual

Logical

Physical

Detailed

Who has time and resources to go

through all that?


Hoshin Kanri

Spherical is too cool and busy….

Hierarchies are toolocked up in

prestige & position


Frameworks are stable references

But they also change

they evolve over time…


Some frameworks are commercial

Open to some extent but locked to some