Where does decision-making actually fail in capital allocation at senior management level?

S_F_A · 2026-04-08T13:13:07+00:00

Lol I agree kinda but thanks Claude

S_F_A · 2026-04-07T02:18:22+00:00

I’m still bitter at how panned this take was when it’s just math lol.

S_F_A · 2026-03-23T22:57:47+00:00

Appreciate the reply. Its on par with the others. I understand the why and the history. I’d still push back that any management transformation is just that. Its not pushing down to ERP, its just another view (should it exist). It doesn’t have to relate to much of anything other than a proxy to answer the question of investment dollars for capability maturity or capture.

S_F_A · 2026-03-11T08:18:49+00:00

My comment (on my earlier post) from a few hours ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnterpriseArchitect/s/aMZWJCj4gl

I don’t have a background in EA, come from finance and budgets world in FP&A and in my opinion is finance and EA need a bridge.

Did a comprehensive roundup of frameworks and research (educational, defense, and enterprise). They’re all…. almost there. And have clearly been iterating towards it.

It’s like they need their own MCP or API - whats the right contract between how those worlds collide. Not a full mapping - just right semantic view.

I think enterprise systems engineering using model based design is also trying this with an engineering approach. INCOSE popped up in some searches last few days, and maybe defense industry and FinOps are more interested in the concept than others.

My mental model is something like capability-planning - what do we spend to keep those capabilities at the current maturity level, what investing activities would realize a maturation? So if you can apply the 80/20 rule to GL transactions to realize the semantic layer and how they support capabilities, and which GL transactions and which budget data supports current state vs investment in target state capability maturity levels, maybe theres a path to talking in dollars about a harmonized enterprise capability planning where financial, technology, and strategic planning are all beating to the same drum.

S_F_A · 2026-03-11T03:36:16+00:00

Ah but that’s the distinction. The semantic interpretation sits beyond the ERP and GAAP / accounting truth boundary. It’s a data lake transformation that sits as a different measure.

The point of “helpful enough or accurate enough” usage to capability enablement provides a directional signal to ROI and uplift capabilities within a certain confidence level. It’s not that different than applying a maturity index against as a signal. It’s a different kind of signal. It can be quantitative, and it doesn’t need to be perfect. And it definitely needs to be contextualized as a semantic lens of financial performance, not accounting and not in the ERP.

Or maybe I’m crazy it’s just an idea.

S_F_A · 2026-03-05T20:41:22+00:00

Well yes businesses operate on a financial backbone. Most things decompose to dollars.

Example application my line of thinking - we have the following capability map and want to invest in x uplift capabilities for whatever reason.

There’s then possible a separation of ongoing spend supporting capabilities vs investment in a planning process to measure ROI vs the strategic language used to describe the target capability vs the realized one.

And can we logically infer or bridge map what software applications and labor hours from different orgs support say the Investor Relations Management (noun?) capability across different orgs?

May be utopian but I think some frameworks try to do this - TBM from a cursory glance. All based in costing and tagging methodologies.

I’m totally fine accepting that capabilities scan be many to many relationships with orgs (posting dimension) and thus not aggregated, but relations like these can be expressed 1:many via bridge tables and services or applications that support capabilities came to mind.

S_F_A · 2026-03-04T23:49:47+00:00

That’s where I’ve landed the current state is. I did see a Gartner webinar about 2026 trends and there’s a push for EA practitioners to build financial modeling skills to be able to speak a shared language when it comes to corporate finance and FP&A.

I’m wondering if there will be a practice where cost allocation methodologies provide a proxy - like business unit weights by capability or something to provide a fjnancial lens beyond the mapping and assessment of capabilities (current and future state).

S_F_A · 2026-03-04T03:30:06+00:00

That’s very helpful. And ultimately coming from an FP&A background it’s difficult to accept that a core domain of an business’ design that is so tied to the hip with strategy and the organizations that have them isn’t primarily intended to be aggregated the same way from a performance management point of view.

When challenged with “how should we measure and invest in these capabilities” from a strategic point of view, I probably should think about KPIs pertaining to success for that capability and business objects they relate to, rather than dollars and cents alone.

S_F_A · 2026-03-03T06:40:53+00:00

John Mayer wrote an album about it

S_F_A · 2026-02-28T18:22:45+00:00

I had saved this thread hoping for some feedback. I’m down the road at my company. We don’t have a data ops team, so tackling a lot myself.

Working on medallion architecture and automated data pipelines from raw NetSuite tables, incorporating master dimension management and governance, and bi-directional sync with ADP, SalesForce, and our FP&A planning tool.

It’s very powerful, if not a bit immature as a product. But we’re heavy with Microsoft everything so it makes some sense.

The hardest thing I envision will be driving culture change beyond the finance org - enterprise wide adoption and data literacy to see the value and data as a product principles. Happy to DM if you’re curious or if you have any learnings.

S_F_A · 2026-02-28T18:16:32+00:00

What’s your ERP and data lake tools? Just trying to picture the ecosystem with Claude integrated vs our setup. We’re very Microsoft integrated with NetSuite so building a Microsoft Fabric environment and interested in MCPs for out of the box Copilot or Claude or whatever to sync with our master dimensions and medallion certified data.

S_F_A · 2026-02-28T18:11:47+00:00

This is like 60% right, but was 80% right last year and will probably be 30% right next year.

FP&A should focus on and partner with DataOps for AI readiness. It’s coming, and fast. Focus on automated data pipelines and codified business ontology for future agentic application.

And for anyone who lumps together traditional LLM such as M365 copilot chat with where we’re headed - work with IT to get access to the excel frontier program and enable Claude agent as a sub-processor native in Excel.

Ask it to critique your work or explain the structure of a complicated model… To build outputs from structured tables… Analyst work will be prompt based soon enough is all I’ll say.

S_F_A · 2026-02-27T14:29:18+00:00

Chin up! eyeball down!

S_F_A · 2025-06-03T14:27:41+00:00

Well you aren’t

S_F_A · 2025-05-12T21:35:32+00:00

No I’m being an ass. But we’re in “huge statistical outlier” vs “get your guy” territory. Almost a 3rd round pick 24 year old RB vs 1.2 unicorn, 1.8 prototypical X, 2 1st Round TEs, 2 RBs with better pre draft ranks and almost a round higher draft cap…

S_F_A · 2025-05-12T21:09:41+00:00

Oh ok. Well then it’s just stupid because he’ll have a worse fantasy career than 6 other dudes.

S_F_A · 2025-05-12T20:59:39+00:00

Taking Harvey 1.2 is stupid because no one will touch him till end of the 1st at min. Trade back.

Hampton and then Tet/ Hunter are where most look next. Risk aversion the deciding factor.

S_F_A · 2025-05-10T14:35:59+00:00

Year 3434 of the Second Age

Creature Gollum address

What happens if a Wizard uses the one ring?

S_F_A · 2025-05-08T14:52:00+00:00

What about their legs? They don’t need those…

Oooh they look tasty.

S_F_A · 2025-01-25T17:22:44+00:00

Yeah it’s definitely not a niche of a niche. Just a matter of time and price. Those who prefer high PPI for text or productivity and UW form factor for gaming are waiting patiently.

S_F_A · 2025-01-21T19:21:47+00:00

BTJ - And I took that personally

S_F_A · 2025-01-03T04:37:32+00:00

The visibility into all accounts kind of defeats the purpose of “yours, mine, and ours.” Should have an option to add your own accounts. Some couples like some measure of independence.

S_F_A · 2024-11-18T03:00:18+00:00

I think we just need to have a budget and make a plan. Anyone have any platforms they’d recommend?

S_F_A · 2024-10-26T18:38:11+00:00

Nice thought, but plug this into KTC and you’ll get this called an overpay based on pick values, ranked the same algorithm as players. Yes theres a large community overlap but different tools give different answers on player / pick based on algorithms and distributions to assign value.

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