Monday - 13 June 2005
Registration: 08:30 - 09:30
Workshops: 09:30 – 17:30
Drinks Reception: 17:30-18:45

• Workshop 1: The Core Concepts of Adaptive Enterprise Architecture
• Workshop 2: Key Issues in Architecture Management

9:30 – 17:30 • Workshop
The Core Concepts of Adaptive Enterprise Architecture

	Richard Buchanan Vice President & Director Enterprise Planning & Architecture Strategies META Group To Speaker's Bio
	Willie Appel Vice President International Enterprise Planning & Architecture Strategies META Group To Speaker's Bio

Workshop Outline

Successful 21st century organisations create a sustainable competitive advantage and promote business and IT innovation by exploiting three synergistic disciplines: (1) enterprise strategy/planning, (2) enterprise architecture and (3) enterprise programme management. Attendees will gain insight from a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art enterprise architecture processes, best practices and models.

Review the relationships and synergies between these three core enterprise disciplines. Hear numerous examples that demonstrate how successful companies pursue these three core disciplines. Learn how to explain the value of this work to senior business and IT decision-makers.

Benefits of Attending:

• Build the foundational knowledge necessary to maximise your conference attendance
• Gain insight into the business and technology value of adaptive enterprise architecture
• Translate business vision and strategy into IT principles and models and building stakeholder support
• Examine proven models and frameworks for modelling business, information and technology architectures
• Best practices followed by successful adaptive enterprises in evolving their architectures
• Implement enterprise architecture through enterprise programme management
• Drive high-value IT via enterprise architecture during changing times

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9:30 – 17:30 • Workshop
Key Issues in Architecture Management

	Brian Burke Vice President International Enterprise Planning & Architecture Strategies META Group To Speaker's Bio
	Philip Allega Vice President International Enterprise Planning & Architecture Strategies META Group To Speaker's Bio

Workshop Outline

Enterprise Architecture teams are struggling with a host of new approaches and techniques such as Service Oriented Architectures, Model Oriented Architecture, and Demand Driven IT. The business is also shifting focus from pure cost containment to now undertake some long overdue investments. Innovation is back on the table as companies once again are investing in technology to gain competitive advantage.

This is your workshop. The key issues to be explored will be determined by the workshop participants. Interaction is a must, and the opportunity to leverage the experiences of other practitioners is vast. Findings from the session will be presented to the general audience.

Benefits of Attending:

• Determine the key issues that EA practitioners are facing globally
• Gain insight into the successful strategies that other practitioners are employing
• Build your professional network in this highly interactive workshop
• Develop insight into the real adoption issues that early adopter organizations are facing.

Candidate Topics Include:

• Governing enterprise architecture in a federated organization
• Delivering just enough architecture, just in time
• Managing the overall IT investment portfolio

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