In recent years, we have seen an interesting trend in the healthcare delivery industry in the United States. The One Massive Trend That Will Change Healthcare Forever – read more presentation by CEO of Cleveland Clinic Dr Delos Cosgrove. Organizations that traditionally operated hospitals are buying up primary care practices, speciality clinics and health insurance … Read more →

Typically, Information Technology programs are inherently complex because their wickedness nature. Health Information Technology (HIT) project get layered with additional complexity as we discuss below: Technology Complexity: Information management technology in healthcare is complex because of differences in diverse stakeholder technology needs, mobile environment, need for meaningful information at the bedside in the most conducive … Read more →

In the past 20 years, most organizations have spent considerable amounts of time and resources developing their enterprise architecture (EA), project management, IT Service Management and governance capabilities all in the promise to improve their business transformation capability. Along with being able to run the business effectively on a daily basis, organizations need the capability … Read more →

Is Enterprise Architecture a profession or a discipline? We at QRS have positioned that Enterprise Architecture is a profession in a previous blog. Certified professionals provide specific services which are valued by the receiver, but the receiver is unable to know if the services were performed effectively or to assess the quality of service even … Read more →

The concept of reference architecture as part of the Enterprise Architecture Continuum in TOGAF ® is well described. However, there are very few practical examples available in the industry that can be leveraged by practicing architects to: Accelerate the architecture development of an organization’s initiatives Improve the quality of architecture deliverables Help business management both … Read more →

Business transformation is very disruptive for an organization as many conflicting points of views need to be addressed, as well as building consensus around business outcomes and cause and effect. In our experience as architects and Business Transformation Professionals, we have seen organizations succeed and fail in implementing change programs that were critical to their … Read more →

We have noticed more interest into TOGAF® education and certification in internet forums and through inquiries we have received. At times, the discussion moved towards inquiries for free training and resources that are available to prepare for TOGAF® certification. While there is a lot of good information out there that can help you improve your … Read more →

Many training providers can offer you excellent training material about the subject matter, but over time, this knowledge also evolves; how do you keep up to date with these changes? One of our core values is providing our students and customers the opportunity to learn continuously. We do this by providing blogs which share our … Read more →

February 2013 Dear Business Transformation Professional: In this month, here’s what’s making news in Business Transformation: Do not under-estimate the power of disruption: We live in a world where titans such as Apple can lose their dominance and where even world renowned institutions such as Harvard can be displaced through better education delivery models that … Read more →

It is with great pleasure for us to announce that our eBook will be officially launched on February 4th. We have poured our insights gained from experience into this eBook to help the community of practitioners involved with Business Transformation improve their individual and collective delivery to realize the organization’s desired business outcomes. Some of … Read more →