Blog EN - Business & IT Transformation

Modern business has grown increasingly complex over the years. Globalization, regulations, technology, business change, have had severe impacts on businesses of all sizes. This makes it increasingly difficult to keep business strategy and objectives in sync with continuously evolving and changing complexity. This is a significant challenge for directors, executives, middle management, and process owners, as well as back-office risk management professionals throughout the business.

The modern world of business is complex, dynamic, and chaotic. Growing regulatory regimes, globalization and competition have impacted organizations of all sizes. Keeping tabs on this constant change and growing complexity is a monumental task for organization’s leadership. Risks are changing at a rapid rate just as business processes are changing, which introduces more risks. Risks need to be understood in the context of current business processes. Effective risk management in modern organizations requires integrated risk and business process modeling.

Digital transformation is playing a key role in Africa’s development and is a driving force behind the continent’s fastest-growing economies.

SAFe, scrum, domain-driven design, Spotify… Agile project frameworks & methodologies have made their way into the enterprise, and especially into IT software project management.  In this dynamic environment, it’s important for a company to not lose sight of its enterprise architecture as it’s essential to understanding how business transformation initiatives can succeed. 

Compliance within financial services has always been bogged down by money laundering activities. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) has been a crucial part of the compliance management activities and processes in financial service firms for a century. As the world financial system has grown to be more sophisticated and complex, AML has become significantly more important. This increased and rising significance has put AML as a central theme in Integrated Risk Management (IRM) solutions for financial services.

It's obvious that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools are going to become increasingly embedded in customer analytics and digital experience platforms. Your organization can harness the power of artificial intelligence and do so successfully with enterprise architecture leading the charge. Successful artificial intelligence strategy requires the adoption of new technologies, processes, and governance models – all initiatives enterprise architecture can help manage.