Strategic Enterprise Architecture Management


Book Description

The Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) discipline deals with the alignment of business and information systems architectures. While EAM has long been regarded as a discipline for IT managers, this book takes a different stance: It explains how top executives can use EAM to leverage their strategic planning and controlling processes, as well as how it can contribute to their sustainable competitive advantage. Based on the analysis of best practices from eight leading European companies from various industries, the book presents the crucial elements of successful EAM. It outlines what executives need to do in terms of governance, processes, methodologies, and culture in order to bring their management to the next level. Beyond this, the book points out how EAM could develop in the next decade, thus allowing today’s managers to prepare for the future architecture management.




Strategic Enterprise Management Systems


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Strategic enterprise management (SEM) systems attempt to bridge the gap between strategy and operations by making shareholder value the key criteria in decision-making. They provide the tools and information to monitor and manage business performance and make better decisions. SEM is designed to improve effectiveness by providing managers with business performance monitoring, consolidation, and data warehousing intelligence capability. Software offerings from companies such as SAP and PeopleSoft include techniques such as shareholder value management, balanced scorecard and activity-based management. The author examines the implications of SEM for finance professionals and management accounting activities. He argues that SEM is not just another technological issue. Instead, SEM is about integrating the best practices in planning, decision-making, implementation and measurement to maximise stakeholder value. * Describes and demystifies the workings of Strategic Enterprise Management systems * Explains how to take a wider approach to achieve the benefits of implementing SEMs * Explores the implications of SEM software offerings







Strategic Enterprise Management


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This amazing Strategic enterprise management self-assessment will make you the trusted Strategic enterprise management domain adviser by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Strategic enterprise management challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Strategic enterprise management work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Strategic enterprise management task and that every Strategic enterprise management outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Strategic enterprise management opportunity costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Strategic enterprise management advise instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Strategic enterprise management essentials are covered, from every angle: the Strategic enterprise management self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the business/project activities and processes so that Strategic enterprise management outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Strategic enterprise management practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the uncommon elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Strategic enterprise management are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access to the $249 value Strategic enterprise management self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book.




Strategic IT Management


Book Description

For you as an IT manager, changes in business models and fast-paced innovation and product lifecycles pose a big challenge: you are required to anticipate the impact of future changes, and to make rapid decisions backed up by solid facts. To be successful you need an overall perspective of how business and IT interact. What you need is a toolkit, enabling you to manage the enterprise from a helicopter viewpoint while at the same time accommodating quite detailed aspects of processes, organization, and software lifecycles. Strategic IT management embraces all the processes required to analyze and document an enterprise’s IT landscape. Based on the experience of many projects and long discussions with both customers and academic researchers, Inge Hanschke provides you with a comprehensive and practical toolkit for the strategic management of your IT landscape. She takes a holistic view on the management process and gives guidelines on how to establish, roll out, and maintain an enterprise IT landscape effectively. She shows you how to do it right first time – because often enough there’s no second chance. She tells you how to tidy up a IT patchworks – the first step towards strategic management – and she gives you advice on how to implement changes and maintain the landscape over time. The book’s structure reflects the patterns that exist in strategic IT management from strategic planning to actual implementation. The presentation uses many checklists, guidelines, and illustrations, which will help you to immediately apply the content. So, if you are a CIO, an IT manager, a business manager, or an IT consultant, this is the book from which you’ll benefit in most daily work situations.




Strategic Business Management


Book Description

Presenting core theories alongside practical applications, this publication will help students understand how to effectively move an organization toward strategic goals. Author Gary Cokins uses his deep knowledge of the subject matter to deliver an easy-to-follow road map to effective and strategic management through: Establishing the integral links between planning and performance Demonstrating how risk management and performance assessment impact planning Applying business analytics and Big Data in the finance and accounting functions as well as marketing, sales, operations and other functions Evaluating the effectiveness of a strategy map and the balanced scorecard as a management tool Tying budgeting to strategy and measuring the effectiveness of both via ongoing performance Written in a plain, straight-forward fashion that will allow students to draw immediate value from its content, this book pulls together several topics in an elegant yet sophisticated approach. It uses detailed graphics and diagrams to provide students with a clear understanding of the dynamic intersection between key management and organization leadership topics that management accountants need to master in order to fill a strategic leadership role within their organizations.







Enterprise Management with SAP SEMTM


Book Description

In order to make strategy happen there is a need for powerful management information systems. SAP focuses on the application of modern business administration concepts, e.g. Value Based Management, the Balanced Scorecard, the Management Cockpit or flexible planning methods. The book describes the methodology and implementation of a powerful tool for enterprise management. Practical examples show how SAP Strategic Enterprise Management/Business Analytics (SAP SEM/BA) can help to improve cross functional planning, reporting and analyzing. SAP SEM/BA is a leading edge IT-solution for top management and related departments in large enterprises and groups. It demonstrates the state of the art of modern management information and decision support systems.




Strategic Enterprise Management Third Edition


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Is a fully trained team formed, supported, and committed to work on the Strategic enterprise management improvements? What is our formula for success in Strategic enterprise management ? Is maximizing Strategic enterprise management protection the same as minimizing Strategic enterprise management loss? What are the compelling business reasons for embarking on Strategic enterprise management? In a project to restructure Strategic enterprise management outcomes, which stakeholders would you involve? This best-selling Strategic enterprise management self-assessment will make you the established Strategic enterprise management domain visionary by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Strategic enterprise management challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Strategic enterprise management work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Strategic enterprise management task and that every Strategic enterprise management outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Strategic enterprise management costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Strategic enterprise management advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Strategic enterprise management essentials are covered, from every angle: the Strategic enterprise management self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Strategic enterprise management outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Strategic enterprise management practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Strategic enterprise management are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the Strategic enterprise management self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book.




Enterprise Management with SAP SEMTM/ Business Analytics


Book Description

In order to make strategy happen there is a need for powerful management information systems. SAP focuses on the application of modern business administration concepts, e.g. Value Based Management, the Balanced Scorecard, the Management Cockpit or flexible planning methods. The book describes the methodology and implementation of a powerful tool for enterprise management. Practical examples show how SAP Strategic Enterprise Management/Business Analytics (SAP SEM/BA) can help to improve cross functional planning, reporting and analyzing. SAP SEM/BA is a leading edge IT-solution for top management and related departments in large enterprises and groups. It demonstrates the state of the art of modern management information and decision support systems.