Useful Resources
The following are links, broken down by link category, to documents, websites and other sources of knowledge and materials of benefit to those undertaking the study or practice of Business Transformation and Business Architecture.
While most of the categorised links are to information generally pertaining to that topic, the category of ‘Content Sources’ is reserved for links to actual sources of down-loadable content file(s) or the means to access same.
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Business Transformation
- American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC)
An internationally recognised resource for process and performance improvement. - American Society for Production and Inventory Control (APICS)
APICS, the Association for Operations Management, is the global leader and premier source of the body of knowledge in operations management, including production, inventory, supply chain, materials management, purchasing and logistics. - BPM Institute
A peer-to-peer exchange for business process management (BPM) professionals. - Business Architecture Institute
The Business Architecture website as published by the same people that publish the Business Process Management (BPM) Institute website. - Business Architecture Working Group
The Business Architecture Working Group of the Object Management Group (OMG). - European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM)
EFQM is a not for profit membership foundation which for the past twenty years has shared what works between our member organisations as a way to help them implement their strategies. - KPI Library
KPI Library helps to find, build and share Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) online. - Lean Enterprise Academy (LEA)
The Lean Enterprise Academy (LEA) is dedicated to pushing forward the frontiers of lean and to spreading lean to every kind of organisation. - Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI)
The Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), founded in 1997 as a nonprofit education, publishing, and research organisation with a mission to advance lean thinking throughout the world. - Product Development and Management Association (PDMA)
The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) is the premier global advocate for product development and management professionals. - Supply Chain Council (SCC)
The Supply-Chain Council is a global non-profit association whose methodology, diagnostic and benchmarking tools help nearly a thousand organisations make dramatic and rapid improvements in supply chain processes. - TM Forum
TM Forum is the world’s leading industry association focused on improving business effectiveness for communications service providers and their suppliers.
Content Sources
- American Society for Production and Inventory Control (APICS) Dictionary
The APICS Dictionary gives APICS members access to both the tried and true terminology necessary to professional success, and the terminology used in emerging techniques and trends. - BLR
BLR is a leading compliance information company that offers solutions that help organisations comply with statutory requirements related to employment, safety and environmental compliance. It also publishes a number of timesaving HR related templates. - EFQM Excellence Model
The EFQM Excellence Model is a non-prescriptive framework based on 9 criteria......five of these are 'Enablers' and four are 'Results'. - Process Classification Framework (PCF)
The APQC Process Classification Framework (PCF) is a globally recognised business process model that defines activities and processes across 12 enterprise-level operating and management categories. - Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model
The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model is a process reference model that has been developed and endorsed by the Supply Chain Council as the cross-industry standard diagnostic tool for supply chain management. - The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
Download of the latest TOGAF version.
Open Source Tools
- CreativeCommons.Org
Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. - GNU General Public License (GPL)
Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful, hence the creation of the GPL family of software licenses.
Reciprocal
- Awaken the Expert Within
How to move from expertise to expert and profit overnight. Become the no. 1 expert in your own category. This proven method has created breakthrough for millionaires like Joel Comm. Learn how to move from commodity to accredited high priced expert. - Business For Sale Toolkit, Exit Strategy Software
Exit strategy software and the business for sale toolkit are designed for business owners who want to improve their performance, plan their business exit strategy or sell their business. - Chicago Executive Coaching
Executive coaching services and related resources for performance improvement. - Guaranteed SEO Service
No. 1 SEO service provider that guarantees a Top-5 position on Google or your money back! - Investing
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Get the best consultancy in outsourcing from our highly experienced IT consultants. - Itypemba.com: Top MBA Rankings
Offers a search of business school listings and admissions information. - Link Market - Free Link Exchange, Link Swap and Link Trade Directory
Have you ever tried to exchange links, swap links, or trade links? Was it hard? Use link market instead; - it is easy to use, free and very smart. It will save you hours of work. - Manufacturer Directory
Business information for global purchasers and suppliers. As a leading b2b search engine we list over 10,000 business to business companies, importers, exporters and manufacturers from 200 countries and regions. - Netizen
The worlds of technology and business. Internet, social media, entrepreneurship, twitter, facebook, blogging, google, wave. - Position and Grow Rich
Profit making method that turns a regular business into #1 expert company in its category, through a unique breakthrough system, that creates instant credibility with customers and media, causing them to want to pay a premium price for your service. - Singapore Company Incorporation
Office business singapore helps companies with their singapore business registration and company incorporation activities within 3-24 hours. We also provide legal compliance, company secretariat, auditing, book keeping, virtual office and mail addresses. - Timesheet Software
Orotimesheet is a leading software product for managing your timesheets. Used in more than 75 countries, it is an excellent solution for businesses of all sizes. - Unit4 ERP Software
Unit4 is a global business software company specializing in project managment, ERP and compliance software offerings for small to medium businesses and large corporations. - Virtual Data Rooms
V-rooms™ provides a privately-branded online virtual data room and document repository solution, designed to streamline document management and collaboration for financial, legal and corporate professionals such as in mergers and acquisitions.
Standards & Methods
- Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN)
A standard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) will provide businesses with the capability of understanding their internal business procedures in a graphical notation and will give organisations the ability to communicate these procedures in a stand - Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) Wiki
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is, in computer science and management, an approach aiming at improvements by means of elevating the efficiency and effectiveness of the business processes that exist within and across organisations. - Hoshin Planning Wiki
Hoshin Planning is a strategic planning/management methodology that uses a Shewhart Cycle (Plan-Do-Check-Act) to create goals, choose control points (i.e. measurable milestones) and link daily control activities to company strategy. - Integration DEFinition (IDEF) Wiki
IDEF (Integration DEFinition) is a family of modeling languages most commonly applied in the fields of process, systems and software engineering modelling. - Lean Wiki
A management practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful and thus a target for elimination. - Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)
Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) is a structured yet flexible framework. It allows you to manage and control all the activities involved in managing a programme through providing advice on organisation, processes, communication and ways of thinking. - PRINCE 2
PRINCE2 is a generic, tailorable, simple to follow project management method. - Six-Sigma Wiki
Six-Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects (i.e. errors) and variability in manufacturing and business processes. - The Open Group
The Open Group works towards enabling access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability. - The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is a framework - a detailed method and a set of supporting tools - for developing an enterprise architecture.
Top Enterprise Application Areas
- Business Intelligence (BI) Wiki
Business intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context. - Collaboration Wiki
Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organisations work together in an intersection of common goals — for example, an intellectual endeavor that is creative in nature — by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. - Computer Aided Design (CAD) Wiki
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology for the design of objects, real or virtual. - Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) Wiki
A CMMS software package maintains a computer database of information about an organisation’s maintenance operations. - Content Management System (CMS) Wiki
A content management system (CMS) such as a document management system (DMS) is a computer application used to manage the work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and elect - Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Wiki
Customer relationship management (CRM) consists of the processes a company uses to track and organise its contacts with its current and prospective customers. - e-Commerce Wiki
Electronic Commerce, commonly known as (electronic marketing) e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. - Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Wiki
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is defined as the use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications. - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Wiki
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a company-wide computer software system used to manage and coordinate all the resources, information, and functions of a business from shared data stores. - Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Wiki
A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is software that is used in the laboratory for the management of samples, laboratory users, instruments, standards and other laboratory functions such as invoicing, plate management and workflow automation - Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Wiki
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) manage and monitor work-in-process on the factory floor including manual or automatic labour and production reporting, as well as on-line inquiries and links to tasks that take place on the production floor. - Point Of Sales (POS) Wiki
Point of sales (POS) or checkout refers to both a checkout counter in a shop, and the location where a transaction occurs. - Product Lifecycle Managment (PLM) Wiki
Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. - Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Wiki
A programmable logic controller (PLC) or programmable controller is a digital computer used for the automation of electromechanical processes such as the control of machinery on factory assembly lines, amusement rides, or lighting fixtures. - Project Management (PM) Wiki
Project management (PM) is the discipline of planning, organising and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. - Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Wiki
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a term used by project managers and project management (PM) organisations to describe methods for analysing and collectively managing a group of current or proposed projects based on numerous key characteristics. - Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Wiki
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. - Resource Management (RM) Wiki
In organisational studies, resource management is the efficient and effective deployment of an organisation's resources when and where they are needed. - Sales Force Automation (SFA) Wiki
Sales force automation (SFA) systems are information systems used in marketing and management that help automate some sales and sales force management functions. They are frequently combined with a Marketing Information System, in which case they are ofte - Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) Wiki
SCADA stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. It generally refers to an industrial control system: a computer system monitoring and controlling a process. - Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Wiki
SRM is the discipline of working collaboratively with those suppliers that are vital to the success of your organisation so as to maximise the potential value of those relationships. - Supply Chain Management (SCM) Wiki
Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers. Supply Chain Management spans all movement and storage of raw materials - Warehouse Management System (WMS) Wiki
A warehouse management system, or WMS, is a key part of the supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of materials within a warehouse and processes the associated transactions, including shipping, receiving, putaway and picking. - Workflow Automation (WFA) Wiki
A workflow is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as the work of a person, a group of persons, an organisation of staff or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. - Workforce Management (WFM) Wiki
Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce.
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