
Technology Strategy Patterns
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Technologists who want their ideas heard, understood, and funded are often told to speak the language of businessâ??without really knowing what that is. This bookâ??s toolkit provides architects, product managers, technology managers, and executives with a shared languageâ??in the form of repeatable, practical patterns and templatesâ??to produce great technology strategies.
Author Eben Hewitt developed 39 patterns over the course of a decade in his work as CTO, CIO, and chief architect for several global tech companies. With these proven tools, you can define, create, elaborate, refine, and communicate your architecture goals, plans, and approach in a way that executives can readily understand, approve, and execute.
This book covers:
- Architecture and strategy: Adopt a strategic architectural mindset to make a meaningful material impact
- Creating your strategy: Define the components of your technology strategy using proven patterns
- Communicating the strategy: Convey your technology strategy in a compelling way to a variety of audiences
- Bringing it all together: Employ patterns individually or in clusters for specific problems; use the complete framework for a comprehensive strategy
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Welcome
- Intended Audience
- Purpose of the Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- O'Reilly Safari
- How to Contact Us
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- This Is Water
- Discovering Strategy
- Driving Strategy with Patterns
- Part I. Context: Architecture and Strategy
- The Origins of Patterns
- Applying the Patterns
- Chapter 1. Architect and Strategist
- Business Strategies
- Marketing at Michelin
- Acquisition and Integration at Oracle
- Differentiation at Xerox and Canon
- The Architect's Role
- Vitruvius and the Principles of Architecture
- Three Concerns of the Architect
- The Strategist's Role
- The Triumvirate: Strategy, Culture, and Execution
- Summary
- Part II. Creating the Strategy
- A Logical Architecture of the Creation Patterns
- Chapter 2. Analysis
- MECE
- Applying MECE Lists
- Logic Tree
- Diagnostic Logic Tree
- Solution Logic Tree
- Creating the Tree
- Problems Versus Opportunities
- Hypothesis
- The Five Questions
- 1. The Conjunct of Propositions Describing the Problem
- 2. The Semantics Characterizing These Propositions
- 3. Possible Outcomes
- 4. Probability of Each Outcome
- 5. Ease and Impact Scoring
- Signal and Noise
- Context
- Objects and Relations
- Strategic Analysis as Machine Learning
- Summary
- Chapter 3. World Context
- PESTEL
- Creating the PESTEL
- Researching for PESTEL
- Applying the PESTEL
- Scenario Planning
- Steps for Scenario Planning
- Futures Funnel
- Backcasting
- Summary
- Chapter 4. Industry Context
- SWOT
- Porter's Five Forces
- Threat of New Entrants
- Ease of Substitution
- Bargaining Power of Customers
- Bargaining Power of Suppliers
- Industry Rivalry
- Applying the Five Forces
- Ansoff Growth Matrix
- Summary
- Chapter 5. Corporate Context
- Stakeholder Alignment
- Determining Stakeholders
- Determining Drivers
- Stakeholder List
- Stakeholder Matrix
- RACI
- Alignment Meetings
- Life Cycle Stage
- Value Chain
- Maximizing Efficiency
- Supporting Functions
- Applying the Value Chain
- Growth-Share Matrix
- Core/Innovation Wave
- Investment Map
- Summary
- Chapter 6. Department Context
- Principles, Practices, Tools
- Principles
- Example: NASA Strategy
- Current and Future Model
- The Principles, Practices, Tools Sankey Diagram
- Business Process Mapping
- The Law of the Product of Probabilities
- Application Portfolio Management
- Planning with Asset Classes
- Capability Mapping
- Business and Technology Attributes
- Project Heat Map
- Summary
- Part III. Communicating the Strategy
- Chapter 7. Approach Patterns
- 30-Second Answer
- Rented Brain
- Ars Rhetorica
- Logical Fallacies
- Fait Accompli
- Facing a Cold Audience
- The Meeting Before
- Dramatic Structure
- Establish the Status Quo
- Create an Inciting Incident
- The Plan
- Shock and Awe
- Deconstruction
- Three Levels of Problems
- Three Causes of Problems
- Semiotics: Signs and Symbols
- Scopes Without Center
- The World as System: Synthetic Decomposition
- Scalable Business Machines
- Business as System
- The Origin Theory
- Aspects of the Scalable Business Machine
- Executing
- Summary
- Chapter 8. Templates
- One-Slider
- Use Case Map
- Directional Costing
- Rough, Refined, Realistic Estimates
- Estimate Template
- Priority Map
- Technology Radar
- Build/Buy/Partner
- Build
- Buy
- Partner
- Due Diligence
- Internal Use
- Architecture Definition
- The Template
- Executable Architectures
- Summary
- Chapter 9. Decks
- Ghost Deck
- Ask Deck
- Strategy Deck
- Roadmap
- Tactical Plan
- MergeSort Meeting
- Chapter 10. Bringing It All Together
- Patterns Map
- Conclusion
- Appendix A. Recommended Reading
- Strategy Books
- Consulting Books
- Philosophy Books
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
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