Potpourri
The four contexts of managing digital
What is Founder, Team, Team of Teams, Enterprise?
The application of digital technology to create additional business value within the primary value chain of enterprises
What is digitization?
The organizational structure within a business that manages the development, marketing, and sale of a product or set of products throughout the product lifecycle
What is Product Management?
The process of managing dependencies among activities.
What is Coordination?
GRC is an acronym for this function
What is Governance, Risk, and Compliance?
What are the three ways of DevOps?
This context represents the bare minimum requirements of delivering digital value.
What is Founder?
A way of understanding the end-to-end flow of value, typically in a manufacturing or supply chain operational context.
What is value stream mapping?
“a systematic series of actions directed to some end … a continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner”. (Dictionary.com)
What is a process?
In most enterprises, governance is their responsibility.
Who is the Board of Directors?
An industry standards body that manages standards like UNIX, TOGAF, IT4IT, and DPBOK
Who is the Open Group?
What an online system that a bank teller uses when interacting with a bank account holder is considered to be
What is a customer supporting system?
A term originating from Lean and the Toyota Production System. Originally, it signified a “pull” technique in which materials would only be transferred to a given workstation on a definite signal that the workstation required the materials.
What is Kanban?
the main hiring concerns of the digital enterprise
What is process as skill recruitment, and ability to allocate and tracking people’s time?
Systems that enable architecture data management
What is an Enterprise Architecture repository?
What are the five ideals from the unicorn project?
The type of cloud computing where the consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure, but has control over the deployed applications
What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)?
A form of contract between the service consumer and service provider, stating the above criteria in terms of a business agreement
What is a Service Level Agreement (SLA)?
The “ideal” number of transaction types for a manufacturing company within the production processes
What is two, the receipt of raw materials and the shipment of finished product?
The means by which new vendor and open source products are approved as fit-for-purpose and/or preferred within the organization.
What is Technology Lifecycle Management process?
The author of Managing Digital
Who is Charles Betz?
The matter of how artifacts under version control are combined with other IT resources (such as virtual machines) to deliver services
What is configuration management?
The practice of collecting and initiating responses to telemetry
What is monitoring?
This is a next generation IT Finance practice
What is Lean Accounting?
also acceptable
•Beyond Budgeting
•Internal “venture” funding
•Lean Product Development
•Value stream orientation
•Internal market economics
•Service brokerage
This competency adds value by improving efficiency, effectiveness, and optimizing risk.
What is information management?