Keynotes 19 & 20 June 2012
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Tuesday 19 June
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Keynote Outline Business Innovation is a crucial activity in the context of designing advanced enterprise architectures and business processes. This importance, however, is not reflected in the available set of BPM and EA tools, techniques and methods. There is an over-supply of (reactive) analysis approaches while little guidance, beyond brainstorming, is provided for the task of coming up with better organisational designs. This keynote will introduce four pragmatic and proven ways to improving organisations; i.e. enhancement, innovation, derivation and utilisation. The critical role of Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture will be discussed. Case studies from around the world will demonstrate how organisations have implemented this framework by using social media and advanced governance structures. Key Issues:
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Tuesday 19 June
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Keynote Outline An examination of organizations’ business strategies and architectures shows remarkable variation in form and function. Confusion between vision and mission, goals and objectives, strategies and tactics abound. In addition, every consultant has his or her own ways of conducting strategic work. Most of these approaches unfortunately fall short of defining the real outcomes needed. Remarkably missing is a consideration of stakeholder needs and expectations (ends) because organizations take a predominantly internal perspective (means). Fortunately we now have an industry model – “The Business Motivation Model” adopted and supported by the Object Management Group - that should be able to help us with a repeatable structure; however it lacks the methods required to use it well. No amount of trendy best practices and technologies will help. Only a natural and common sense lens and a simple proven framework on how best to deliver expected value and enable anticipated results that applies to any complex business initiative can give us our ends and means.
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Tuesday 19 June
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Keynote Outline In this keynote Robbert Kuppens will share Cisco's vision, strategy, execution and metrics (VSEM) around the Cisco business and IT architecture process. He will show how Cisco has implemented the BOST (Business, Operations, Systems, Technology) framework to drive both operational excellence and agility. Kuppens will also describe the governance of architecture within Cisco's operating model (business and IT combined!) and how Cisco's enterprise collaboration platform QUAD is essential in sharing practices amongst all business and IT architects across the organization (the so-called Architecture Centre of Excellence or ACE community). He will share how Cisco is using Clarity and Troux for consistent portfolio management and architectural descriptions to combine global and local regional interlocks. Last but not least, he will share how architecture has become part of Cisco's DNA and how Cisco IT is now using its own practices in collaboration with key customers. |
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Wednesday 20 June
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Keynote Outline There is a vital business process that is being ignored in your company today. It is unnamed, poorly defined, largely unmanaged, and therefore rarely improved upon. Yet, it affects every other business process you operate. It is the strategy-to-execution process that clarifies executive intent, translates it into coordinated action, measures value realization, and creates a feedback loop. When this process is sub-optimized the entire organization suffers. Most organizations view strategy development as a one-time event intended to create focus and identify yearly projects and programmes. However, as strategies move across and down the organization they often become distorted resulting in diluted business impact and wasted resources. What’s needed is a well-defined process to manage the translation of executive strategy into coordinated execution and adapt this as required in response to subsequent events. Both business architects and business process managers have a stake in getting this process right. This session will provide a framework for a strategy-to-execution process that creates focused and coordinated action and case studies of how it has dramatically improved business performance. Key Takeaways:
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