Strategy shapes the organisation
A strategic choice becomes credible when the organisation’s structure, capabilities, and incentives support it.
Strategy · Architecture · Leadership
Strategy shapes
the organisation.
I’m David Abolarin. I write about how strategic choices shape capabilities, leadership, technology, and the way work gets done.
Selected insights
All articles ↗AI needs a visible place in enterprise architecture
Introducing CEAF as a conceptual contribution from my graduate work, with a clear account of its limits.
A strategic PMO must challenge the project list
Connect project governance with capability priorities, dependencies, capacity, and the continuing case for investment.
The questions behind my work
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Strategy & Organisational Design
How competitive choices shape structure, decision rights, people, rewards, and culture.
02
Business Architecture
The capabilities, value streams, and investment choices that make a business model work.
03
EA Leadership & Governance
Enterprise architecture leadership, influence, accountability, and decisions across boundaries.
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Digital Transformation
Technology choices grounded in business purpose, data, integration, security, and readiness.
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Business Structure & Operations
How roles, ownership, management routines, and reliable work support a business that can scale.
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Supply Chain
Planning, material flow, resilience, and decisions across the network that delivers the customer promise.
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Manufacturing in Africa
Building manufacturing capability, dependable operations, and businesses suited to African markets.
Ideas you can take with you
All infographics ↗Download visual guides for leadership conversations, investment decisions, and the design of work.
Visual guide 01
Strategy shapes the organisation
Trace a strategic choice into the arrangements that help people deliver it.
Visual guide 02
Make capability investment explicit
Connect a business promise to the ability, evidence, and ownership it needs.
Visual guide 03
Give technology a business test
Move from an attractive demonstration to an evidence-based investment decision.
Free resource · One Better Guide
Turn a strategic priority into a practical plan.
Get the Capability Planning Starter Kit: seven pages to connect outcomes, capabilities, evidence, and ownership, with a supply-chain example.
Get the free guide ↓ONE BETTER GUIDECapability
Planning
Starter KitDavid Abolarin · Workbook 01
Planning
Starter KitDavid Abolarin · Workbook 01
From study and practice
A perspective shaped by the work.
My interests connect enterprise architecture and strategy with experience in manufacturing, technology, and operations leadership.
About David ↗Conversations and contribution
Industry, advisory, and ideas.
I’m interested in helping leaders understand how their organisations work, how they need to change, and what it takes to make that change useful, including the growth of manufacturing businesses in Africa.
Speaking & appearances ↗Speaking · Conversation · Advisory
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Invite me to a conversation, an in-person event, a podcast, or a discussion about your organisation.
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