9.00 - 9.45
EA and Business Alignment: The Progress You Make, Depends on Where You Start
In tough economic times when resources and budgets are squeezed more than ever, productivity is the key to success. Operating model innovation, finding new ways of doing work and the ability to leverage technology in new ways is key to achieving productivity goals – yet IT and business alignment continues to elude most organizations. Jack will be discussing a number of new techniques to clarify your business strategy, define your operating model, design your business architecture, and to prioritize your IT agenda.

Jack Calhoun, CEO, Accelare, US
Jack Calhoun has extensive experience in business strategy, large-scale business reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, integration and turnaround projects, and is a leading expert in the role of information technology in modern business design. With 25 years of practical experience in large project management, Jack has led a number of successful reengineering efforts. Jack was a contributor to the best-selling book Reengineering the Corporation by James Champy and Michael Hammer. Prior to founding Accelare, Jack was a group director of Perot Systems. Jack had sold his previous company, Business Architects, to Ross Perot in 1997. Recently, Jack was the lead consultant in helping to orchestrate the turnaround of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a nationally recognized health maintenance organization.

Jack began his consulting career with Arthur Andersen and CSC. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and Management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Jack is on the Board of the Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Tech.

9.45 - 10.30
EA for Decision Support - Connecting Data to Decisions

Objective
Informed decisions supported by data are crucial for the success of any enterprise of the future.  This presentation will offer some insight into ways of delivering the information to where it's relevant and enabling the enterprise architecture to be a critical tool for decision support.

Scenario
The business world is a competitive knowledge-rich environment in which managers make many decisions, ranging from the simple to the complex, about what to do with their organizations' resources.
Most business decisions have data dependencies that are also captured as static snapshots in enterprise architecture products.  It is equally probable that decisions are being made without considering the "whole" effect of the decision on the enterprise.  EA, in today's world, cannot persist simply as artifacts supporting compliance . there is not enough money to support both robust business intelligence data management efforts and comprehensive EA efforts. Every one of these decisions involves the use of data and requires the use of enterprise architecture to support informed decisions.  You must go beyond static artifacts if you want an enterprise architecture that delivers decisions based on relevant data.

Problem
Enterprise architecture and the resultant content are neither visible nor usable to most people within any organization.  The majority of enterprise architecture content is trapped in the hands of information technologists and not in the hands of the business.  The information is not available to the business enterprise to be used as a critical tool for decision support.

Solution
Answering the questions of the business enterprise with the architecture and delivering the right message to the right people to connect data to decisions.
1.      Frame the questions
2.      Align the architecture to the questions
3.      Populate the architecture
4.      Communicate the results

Until the enterprise architecture content moves out of the hands of the technologists and into the hands of the business it will remain an arcane art predominately focused on simply meeting portfolio management and regulatory compliance requirements.

Results
Data connected to decisions.  
Informed decisions supported by data are crucial for the success of any enterprise of the future.

Paul Johnson, CEO, Pragmatica Innovations
Paul W. Johnson has been in the InformationTechnology and System Engineering business for over 25 years within the Department of Defense. As the CEO for Pragmatica Innovations he currently directs a team of professionals in enterprise architecture modeling, integration and engineering solutions primarily focused within the Department of the Defense. He continues to play a pivotal role in multiple architecture efforts spanning from the business to the war-fighting domains. Prior to his employment with Kratos he led multiple system architecture design, development and integration efforts as an engineer for Northrop Grumman.