Track: Business Transformation

Tuesday, October 19: 2.00 - 5.30

2:00 - 2:45 Successful Post Merger Integration with EA Management and TOGAF™ Uwe Weber, Managing Partner, Detecon International GmbH Based on a fictive case study, which is derived from real consulting projects, it will be demonstrated how a TOGAF based EA may support the challenges in business transformation within a merger case. The presentation will be held in collaboration with alfabet and its tool planning IT, one of the leading EA tools. Within this step-by step presentation it will be shown, how management plans the merger and controls the implementation while generating business benefits. Analysis and visualization in all the phases are made and shown by alfabet planning IT. Audience: Business leaders, CIO, Enterprise Architects Key takeaways: How EA can be used to face the challenges in business transformation, e.g. in M&A TOGAF based approach to plan and control PMI How business benefits can be generated in all steps of the transformation approach Uwe Weber, Managing Partner, Detecon International GmbH Since 2001, Uwe Weber has been a Managing Partner of strategy at Detecon International and responsible for the EA practice. Since 2005, Uwe has been a member of The Open Group. He has comprehensive EA management consultancy experience based on TOGAF™ in international projects across industries and companies of different sizes. Uwe has 20 years in IT professions at leading IT service and consulting companies.

2:45 - 3:30
Rationalisation of Information System Landscape at Dutch Transmission System Operator
Tom Coenen, Logica Management Consulting, The Netherlands

Success story / client case about a succesful EA programme at the Dutch TSO (TenneT). Logica Management Consulting was hired by the business side of TenneT, to help the business set up a transformation programme for the coming years, to rationalise their Information System landscape and transform it to support the future ambitions and strategy of TenneT in the North West European energy market.

The presentation will focus on the process (understanding the business - by means of a business function model, getting buy in, both on business side as well as IT side, etc.) during this client engagement and how to define (business and IT) criteria to rationalise your IS landscape and create a successful business/technology roadmap for change. Real life deliverables and examples will be shown to tell the story. All is based on Logica's successful EA approach and experiences with these kind of transformation programmes.

Audience:-
CxO's, business management, IT management, Enterprise Architects, IT Architects, business architects, information managers, consultants

Key takeaways:-

1. How a business driven EA approach enables business/technology change
2. What the added value is of creating a business function model to get business buy-in
3. How to set up a roadmap for business / technology transformation (the big picture) and governance

Tom Coenen, Logica Management Consulting, The Netherlands
Tom is working as a Management Consultant on Enterprise Architecture. The past few years he has been involved in several Enterprise Architecture programs, bridging the gap between Strategy, Organization, People and Technology. With a business driven approach, and a keen focus on content, process and transition management. He is also involved in the further development and future state of Enterprise Architecture at Logica's international EA & IT strategy practices.

3:30 - 4:00 BREAK

4:00 - 4:45
Enterprise Architecture: How the Dutch Government Has Developed A Step By Step Approach
Peter Bergman, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Architecture Advisor in Project MARIJ
Roland Groustra, Enterprise Architect, Dutch Ministry of Justice

In a strong decentralized government the Dutch have found a way to introduce boundaryless architecture developments. By sharing projects of mutual interest the common goal of a federated architecture is being developed step by step. On all levels of government the understanding for such an approach is growing especially after the economic crisis this cooperation is beginning to become successful. In this presentation the history and development of one of these programs is being explained.

Peter Bergman, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Architecture Advisor in Project MARIJ
Peter Bergman has been working for the Dutch government for about 22 years in several IT-related functions. Peter earned a bachelor degree in economics and later also a master degree in both economics and information management. Since 2007 Peter has been working as advisory Business and IT architect for ICTU, an operational unit of the ministry of internal affairs, that offers ICT-architecture and development services for the whole Dutch government. Peter has especially worked on the referential architectures NORA, the Dutch interoperability framework and MARIJ, the referential architecture for the central government.

Roland Groustra, Enterprise Architect, Dutch Ministry of Justice
Roland Groustra started his IT carrier in the technical field of IT as an operator, moved forward by carrying out several software development functions and ended this technical IT carrier with a job as IT policy (millennium) manager for the social security department of the city of The Hague. In the first years of the new millennium he worked as a program manager by the Dutch Immigration Office. There he got involved in the world of IT architecture.

Nowadays Roland works as the enterprise architect of the Dutch Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The MoJ is a federation of 24 independent companies. Roland's position is the chairman of the MoJ IT standardization board. He is a strong believer of SOA architecture, and as such a follower of the NORA. From this viewpoint standardization for collaboration must take place on linking points. Interoperability is here the buzzword. MoJ already implemented technical interoperability; semantic interoperability is about to begin. OWL, RDF(s), CCTS and NDR are the standards explored and now ready to be used.

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