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Keynote |
Case Study Examples
of the Zachman Framework
John Zachman, President, Zachman International
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| Panel |
The Future of Enterprise Architecture: EA
at the crossroads
Moderator: Sally
Bean, Director, Sally Bean Ltd
Panellists:
Adrian Apthorp, Head of Architecture, DHL Express
Chris Potts, Corporate Strategist, Dominic Barrow
Michael Rosen, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Cutter Consortium
Jon Hill, CTO, Towergate Partnership Ltd
Nigel Green, Enterprise Architect, Independent
Consultant |
| 10:00-10:30 |
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Break and Exhibits |
| 10:30-11:30 |
Track 1 |
Application
Portfolio Management in the Context of a Global Enterprise Architecture
Programme
Martin Dawson, Application Architect, Shell International
Petroleum Company
Mark-Jan Paanakker, Downstream Lead
Application Architect, Shell Downstream Services International B.V |
| Track 2 |
Executing
Architecture
Richard Weston, Professor, Loughborough University |
| Track 3 |
Ask not
what Agile can do for you...
Jon Hill, CTO, Towergate Partnership Ltd |
| Track 4 |
TOGAF 9 Elaboration of
the Zachman Framework
Stan Locke, Managing Director,
Zachman Framework Associates |
| 11:30-12:30 |
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Lean EAI - Making the Case for Integration in the Cloud
Bradley Flemming, Pre-Sales Engineer - Europe, Liaison Technologies |
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Bridging Information Silos using Data Services: The key enablers of an Agile Enterprise Architecture
Gary Baverstock, Regional Director, UK & Ireland, Denodo |
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Enabling the Zachman Framework using Sybase PowerDesigner
David Dichmann, Sybase Sr. Product Manager, Sybase |
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS TO BE CONFIRMED |
| 12:30-13:45 |
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Lunch and Exhibits |
| 13:45-14:45 |
Track 1 |
Assessing
Effectiveness: NASA Capabilities Portfolio Management
Robert Stauffer, President, Information
Dynamics
Lawrence Helm,
Director of Government Operations, Information Dynamics |
| Track 2 |
Case
Study - Implementation and Integration of the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture within a Dynamic Growing Business
(Stephen) Tas Ranson, CIO, The Nova Group of
Companies |
| Track 3 |
Improving Procurement Outcomes
by applying Enterprise Architecture
Calum Steen, Principal
Architect, National Policing Improvement Agency |
| Track 4 |
Implications of Cloud Computing
for Enterprise Architects
Matt Deacon, Chief Architectural Advisor, Microsoft |
| 14:45-15:45 |
Track 1 |
When Worlds Collide - EA
Approaches to Managing Strategic Change
David Byrne, IT
Director (Architecture Design), The Carphone Warehouse plc |
| Track 2 |
What can Service Designers Learn
from Software Architects?
Simon Field, Chief Technology Officer, Office
for National Statistics, United Kingdom |
| Track 3 |
Visible
Enterprise Architectures
Milan Guenther, Partner, Design Consultant,eda.c
enterprise design associates |
| Track 4 |
Introducing TOGAF at ABN AMRO:
a Matter of Cut and Paste
Wouter
Schmitz, Head of Architecture, ABN AMRO |
| 15:45-16:15 |
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Break and Exhibits |
| 16:15-17:15 |
Track 1 |
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| Track 2 |
Simplified
Business-Event Processing - "Twitter for Business Events"
Nigel Green, Enterprise Architect, Independent
Consultant |
| Track 3 |
Challenges
faced by IT Architects in Highly Dynamic and Demanding Organizations
Juttas Paul, Head of
IT Systems, Aljazeera Network |
| Track 4 |
Delivering value from EA, From
the Board Room to the Rock Face
Stuart
Macgregor, CEO, Real IRM |
| 17:15-17:30 |
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Conference Wrap-Up
John Zachman, President, Zachman International
Sally Bean, Director, Sally Bean Ltd
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Friday
18 June
09:00-10:00
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KEYNOTE: Case Study Examples
of the Zachman Framework
John Zachman, President, Zachman International
For many years, John
has argued that engineering an Enterprise is far different from building and
running systems. Engineering an Enterprise requires single variable,
"primitive" models, whereas building and running systems requires multiple
variable, "composite" models. If you want the Enterprise to be "architected",
then the "composite" implementation (systems) models must be created from
components of "primitive" engineering (architecture) models. If the "composite"
implementation models are created before any "primitive" models exist, then the
Enterprise will be implemented (running systems), but NOT "architected." The
problem is, for the last 60 or 70 years, those of us who come from the
information community have been solely focused on building and running systems
(implementations) not on engineering Enterprises (architecture). We
build and use "composite" models. We don't relate to "primitive" models because
we don't build or use "primitive" models. This case study is an attempt to
illustrate what "primitive" models look like, what you use them for and how you
could create "composite" models (implementations) from the "primitive" models
(architecture). |
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Friday
18 June
09:00-10:00
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PANEL: The Future of Enterprise Architecture: EA
at the crossroads
Moderator: Sally
Bean, Director, Sally Bean Ltd
Panellists:
Adrian Apthorp, Head of Architecture, DHL Express
Chris Potts, Corporate Strategist, Dominic Barrow
Michael Rosen, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Cutter Consortium
Jon Hill, CTO, Towergate Partnership Ltd
Nigel Green, Enterprise Architect, Independent
Consultant
Enterprise Architects are change agents who must recognise that their own discipline is itself subject to alteration. Over the past 20 years, EA has been evolving gradually, but there is now much talk of more radical shifts resulting from dramatic changes in technology and organisational dynamics. These include moving from a discipline with roots firmly in IT to one that is more business-oriented and moving from a top-down idealised master-planning approach to a more pragmatic, less centralised collaborative one. Are these changes realistic and what are their implications? A panel of speakers and experts will debate these different approaches with the audience, consider how EA's practice and its practitioners may change over the next 5 years, and discuss appropriate tactics for EA teams.. |
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 10:30-11:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
Friday
18 June
10:30-11:30
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Application
Portfolio Management in the Context of a Global Enterprise Architecture
Programme
Martin Dawson, Application Architect, Shell International
Petroleum Company
Mark-Jan Paanakker, Downstream Lead
Application Architect, Shell Downstream Services International B.V
Since 2004 Shell
has been executing a global Enterprise Architecture programme designed to
standardize and simplify business processes and systems on a global basis. A key
element of the programme has been the rationalization and implementation of a
target application portfolio in which a global instance of SAP represents a
major component.
We will show how we
use portfolio management techniques to manage the application portfolio through
all stages of an application portfolio lifecycle including portfolio
definition, deployment, legacy decommissioning, performance monitoring and
strategic planning.
This presentation
will address:
- Benefits of following a structured EA approach on application
portfolio management
- The architecture principles that have guided the Shell approach
to a major business and IT transformation programme
- The need for a close interaction between local and global aspects
of both the portfolio and the roadmaps in order to drive change and realize the
intended benefits
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Friday
18 June
10:30-11:30
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Executing
Architecture
Richard Weston, Professor, Loughborough University
Enterprise architecture makes it possible to
conceptualise current and possible future enterprise requirements and solutions
in a holistic way, leading to improved decision making across various boundaries.
In general however, current-generation architectures are static in the sense
that they cannot readily be computer executed to contrast and compare the
behaviours of alternative architectures.
This presentation
will describe an innovative new approach to executing architecture. This
approach incorporates the use of three sets of decomposition techniques, and a
new way of re-integrating 'process', 'resource' and 'work' viewpoints about
complex and changing systems. This allows the coherent design of multiple
simulation models at multiple levels of abstraction; thereby enabling 'big
picture execution'. The approach will be exemplified with reference to its case
study application in helping world leading aero-space and white goods
businesses to gain a better understanding of the interplay of the different
factors impacting their business.
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Friday
18 June
10:30-11:30
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Ask not
what Agile can do for you...
Jon Hill, CTO, Towergate Partnership Ltd
Within Financial
Services organisations Agile development approaches are here to stay and the
adoption of such methods continues to increase. To date many discussions
concerning EA and Agile development have focused on the differences between
approaches seeking greater predictability and those seeking greater
adaptability. In this presentation instead of asking what Agile means for EA,
we will ask what EA can do for Agile. Based on interviews and discussions with
a number of leading Agile practitioners within both Financial Services
organisations and other sectors, we will discuss:
- Trends within Agile development: new meeting points between EA
and Agile
- What do Agile development managers and teams want to see from EA
initiatives
- Methods, tools and approaches that EA teams can adopt to assist
and give value to Agile
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Friday
18 June
10:30-11:30
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TOGAF 9 Elaboration of
the Zachman Framework
Stan Locke, Managing Director,
Zachman Framework Associates
This presentation shows how the TOGAF9 deliverables
and methodology processes are related to the Zachman Framework and why both
frameworks are needed. The common threads and underlying common concepts have
been identified and considered by architects certified and practising in
multiple schools of EA thought. The presentation will illustrate how active
research work in South Africa is taking on a whole new dimension of how these
tools can become part of the Business Strategy planning agenda in the 21st
century.
- What are the consistencies between the approaches?
- Where are these being utilized together?
- When do we expect that the various Enterprise Metaframeworks will
converge?
- Who is interested in the development of the Profession Practice
with a common'lingua franca'?
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| 11:30-12:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
Friday
18 June
11:30-12:30
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Lean EAI - Making the Case for Integration in the Cloud
Bradley Flemming, Pre-Sales Engineer - Europe, Liaison Technologies
While EAI provides a framework for approaching IT architecture for the enterprise, the use of cloud services in the context of EAI is where the real return on investment is made. EAI, while bringing agility to the IT systems, also prepares the enterprise to leverage cloud computing by creating the necessary interfaces and support of standards.
For organizations contemplating extending SOA or integration to the cloud, Liaison will examine three preparatory actions.
- Accept the notion that it's okay to leverage external services as part of your integration strategy.
- Create a strategy for the consumption and management of cloud services.
- Create a proof of concept now.
In this presentation Liaison will take the mystery out of cloud-based, application-to-application (A2A) integration, and its use within the context of SOA, including the business case, the core concept, enabling technologies, and best practices. We'll set a course towards a more agile, efficient, and cost effective approach to IT that will allow your business to scale on-demand, and at the same time significantly reduce costs. |
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Friday
18 June
11:30-12:30
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Bridging Information Silos using Data Services: The key enablers of an Agile Enterprise Architecture
Gary Baverstock, Regional Director, UK & Ireland, Denodo
Modern businesses demand near-real-time delivery of high-quality information in context. This means that enterprise architects and application developers must seek new service-oriented ways of accessing and integrating enterprise data. Data Virtualization technologies enable information to be delivered as a service, delivering high quality, federated information to the right place at the right time to support multiple end user applications and provide real business insight. Enterprise Architects can use these Data Services (Denodo's term for Information-as-a-Service) as part of a pragmatic approach to building cohesive information architectures that go beyond siloed processes and data. |
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Friday
18 June
11:30-12:30
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Enabling the Zachman Framework using Sybase PowerDesigner
David Dichmann, Sybase Sr. Product Manager, Sybase
This session will take a deep dive into how Sybase PowerDesigner's Link & Sync technology
will take sample models from the Zachman Framework and demonstrates how to tie it all together.
Zachman Framework and Sybase PowerDesigner makes EA actionable. |
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Friday
18 June
11:30-12:30
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS TO BE CONFIRMED
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Friday
18 June
12:30-13:45 |
Lunch & Exhibits |
| 13:45-14:45 CONCURRENT SESSIONS |
Friday
18 June
13:45-14:45
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Assessing
Effectiveness: NASA Capabilities Portfolio Management
Robert Stauffer, President, Information
Dynamics
Lawrence Helm,
Director of Government Operations, Information Dynamics
Using methods drawn
from the US DOD, UK MOD and previous success with the NASA CIO, Information
Dynamics has helped NASA instantiate EA as a tool for long-range strategic
planning. We have developed processes to determine and describe the connection
between mission-producing assets (like wind tunnels or the Space Shuttle) and
their core capabilities. The resulting portfolio of strategic capabilities can
be assessed for overall health and compared to a "target state" of scenarios to
highlight investment gaps or redundant activities. Using methods and models
applicable to any complex enterprise, we will demonstrate how our assessments
balance traditional cost management against the stewardship of national space
flight capabilities.
Our presentation
will explain how we:
- Determine the attributes of a "strategic asset"
- Reverse-engineer a "service architecture" for an established
organization
- Institutionalize Capabilities Portfolio Management as an integral
element of the decision making process
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Friday
18 June
13:45-14:45
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Case
Study - Implementation and Integration of the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture within a Dynamic Growing Business
(Stephen) Tas Ranson, CIO, The Nova Group of
Companies
This presentation
describes the practical experience of implementing the Zachman Framework for EA
and a modified version of Finkelstein's Information Engineering approach into a
young but rapidly growing business. The primary objective was to create an
architecture that is a living, integrated part of the business, that is
responsive to change, and provides direct useful information to all business
participants. The secondary objective was to get in early in the life of the
business to ensure the enterprise architecture shapes and drives the emerging
business systems to avoid the acquisition or creation of disintegrated systems.
This
presentation will cover:
- Framework Adaption
- Process/Method Choices and Changes
- Key Models Used
- Lessons Learned
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Friday
18 June
13:45-14:45
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Improving Procurement Outcomes
by applying Enterprise Architecture
Calum Steen, Principal
Architect, National Policing Improvement Agency
Procuring
goods and services from 3rd parties via a marketplace is common place in the
private and public sector. However, so-called agency problems remain, for
example completing a specification of requirements in advance, choosing the
best suppliers who themselves have an incentive to overstate capability and
assuring the delivered product or service.
With
budgets under pressure, and to complement existing public sector procurement
practices, the NPIA has applied Enterprise Architecture assets and methods with
the goal of improving procurement outcomes. This presentation will cover
- What has worked and challenged us in utilising EA assets within
large-scale procurements
- Which EA assets we believe are most beneficial to ensuring better
procurement outcomes and where IPR should be retained by the client
- Preferred ownership responsibilities for EA assets between
business projects, procurement and the central EA team
- How we anticipate EA assets will provide the criteria for the Champion/Challenger
process for faster selections in the public sector
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Friday
18 June
13:45-14:45
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Implications of Cloud Computing
for Enterprise Architects
Matt Deacon, Chief Architectural Advisor, Microsoft
The "Cloud" is
everywhere these days and the promise of convenient procurement of IT services
without the cost and hassle of IT staff is all too appealing for many. But,
while convenient in the short term, this approach can create many problems in
the longer term. IT challenges don't go away with clouds; issues of security,
data governance, service management, contingency planning, Integration and
management quickly come to the surface. Cloud offers many great benefits but
should be viewed in a broader context of what the business is trying to
achieve.
This session will
provide guidance on preparing for cloud. We will build a cloud taxonomy and an
approach to using it with key stakeholders from business to IT. We will discuss
how looking above process and implementation at a business's capabilities
enables EAs to engage in different discussions about the business. We will then
consider the future of the IT department in terms of new responsibilities and
roles and understand the key architectural considerations of entering into a
world of hybrid architectures. Finally, while EAs yearn to be heard by the
business, it is too easy to isolate ourselves from the rest of IT along on the
journey. We'll look at key lessons from agile development and how these can be
applied at the architectural tier and in so doing learn about "technical debt"
and how in the right hands, it is a good thing! |
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Wednesday
18 June
14:45-15:45
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When Worlds Collide - EA
Approaches to Managing Strategic Change
David Byrne, IT
Director (Architecture Design), The Carphone Warehouse plc
Internal change is the norm in
most organisations today, but when change is caused by organisations
interacting with each other, the effects are magnified. In situations such as
the engagement of a new strategic supplier or the execution of a merger or acquisition,
the results can be viewed as a collision of Enterprise Architectures. Options
such as outsourcing and cloud services enable businesses to make strategic
changes like these faster than ever before.
This presentation describes
approaches used by the Enterprise Architecture team at Carphone Warehouse to
prepare the ground for these events, help in the transition and speed the
journey back to 'steady state'. |
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Friday
18 June
14:45-15:45
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What can Service Designers Learn
from Software Architects?
Simon Field, Chief Technology Officer, Office
for National Statistics, United Kingdom
Are some of the
methods and practices of software architecture applicable to service design? This
presentation looks at the similarities between the worlds of software
architecture and service design, and explores how the concepts of software
architecture and architecture reviews may be applicable to service design. The
presentation will cover the following:
- How do we define service quality?
- Do services have architecture?
- How do we evaluate services?
- Is there a place for ex-ante service evaluation?
- Can it be used to strengthen post-ante service evaluation?
- Applying software architecture review methods to services
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Friday
18 June
14:45-15:45
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Visible
Enterprise Architectures
Milan Guenther, Partner, Design Consultant,eda.c
enterprise design associates
Organisations are
struggling to adequately connect their people to business processes,
information, and interactions. Although most manual interactions between a
human and an organisation today include dealing with IT systems, user
experience and usability in the enterprise is still behind what is common in
the consumer space. Unstructured data, manual interactions, ad-hoc
communication processes, and organisational identity and culture are not well
addressed by EA today.
This presentation
will introduce a people-centred perspective of organisational information
systems and their touch points with users. It describes a framework for a
Design initiative based on EA insights and related practices, with the goal to integrate
users, information and interaction in an optimal way.
Key elements:
- Making the Enterprise visible and usable to human users
- Approaching the people issue from a global perspective
- Using this framework to align, consolidate and integrate user-facing
elements
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Friday
18 June
14:45-15:45
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Introducing TOGAF at ABN AMRO:
a Matter of Cut and Paste
Wouter
Schmitz, Head of Architecture, ABN AMRO
Over the past year and a half Mr. Schmitz
has been introducing TOGAF at ABN AMRO. In his presentation he will show the
road he took and the problems he had to overcome. Using juicy anecdotes and
sharing his experiences he will take you on a ride to show you:
- His "cookbook" for introducing TOGAF
- What he did with the prior existing
architecture method at ABN AMRO
- How to make the right selections from
TOGAF (the cutting part)
- How to stick to the TOGAF standard while
remaining practical
- How to transform TOGAF to a functioning
architecture team
- What you really need to make your
architecture team a success, but TOGAF doesn't give you (the pasting part)
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Friday
18 June
16:15-17:15
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Simplified
Business-Event Processing - "Twitter for Business Events"
Nigel Green, Enterprise Architect, Independent
Consultant
Enterprise
Architects often find themselves in the position of connecting diverse
ecosystems, rather than designing well-formed enterprise systems. This
presentation will describe a design pattern called Simplified Business-Event
Processing (S-BEP) which can be used to create an Information System that
provides ubiquitous visibility across federated systems in large, complex,
business operations.
It will explain how
the S-BEP pattern helps businesses achieve visibility across their Value
Networks (such as Supply Chains) and help bring sustainable, flexibility,
agility and scalability to their IS estate. This pattern has been applied many
times over in various industries such as logistics, criminal justice, banking
and postal services and is being currently used to design a system that will
give near-real-time visibility to over 500 million business events per day
without needing to invest in anything other than COTS software and hardware.
- Key standards and principles for event processing
- Why S-BEP goes beyond IS design and creates business
opportunities
- Next-generation approaches to IS architecture
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Friday
18 June
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Challenges
faced by IT Architects in Highly Dynamic and Demanding Organizations
Juttas Paul, Head of
IT Systems, Aljazeera Network
The adaptability
and usability of IT Architecture raises a question mark for highly dynamic organizations
such as Aljazeera, where the business is expanding rapidly and diversifying.
Information technology has transformed from a support function to a business
driver and the organization must achieve business objectives faster, which
requires architecting very efficient and effective information technology that
integrates legacy systems with the changing IT environment.
This presentation
outlines the challenges caused by very dynamic and demanding organizations to IT
Architects and how to deal with it, along with a case study of Aljazeera. It
will describe how an adaptable service-oriented architecture and dynamic IT
environment was created and how improved enterprise information integration was
achieved.
- Key factors to consider for IT architecture in a highly dynamic
environment
- How to do IT architecture to achieve business objectives faster
- Do not focus on standardization, instead work towards enablement
of continuous change
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Friday
18 June
16:15-17:15
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Delivering value from EA, From
the Board Room to the Rock Face
Stuart
Macgregor, CEO, Real IRM
EA Frameworks such
as TOGAF may help EA teams to understand how to produce EA content but they
fall short in explaining how to establish an EA function that is both
business-appropriate and sustainable. This presentation provides practical
guidance for running the EA practice like a business with a clearly defined
customer focus, product portfolio, communication and marketing strategy. It
will describe how to ensure your EA team delivers value to a wide range of
stakeholders and provide examples of how to repackage EA content to meet
different customer needs. The benefits include better decisions at Board Level
and better knowledge and understanding of how the business actually works for
people working at the Rock Face.
- The Enterprise Architect's Role in Strategy
- How to perform 'Mass Customisation' of EA deliverables
- How agility in meeting and exceeding customer expectations drives
positive word-of-mouth
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Friday
18 June
17:15-17:30
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Conference Wrap-up
John Zachman, President, Zachman International
Sally Bean, Director, Sally Bean Ltd
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