Drs. Dennis Kerssens, Principal Architect at Getronics and Business Unit Manager of the architecture service centre. He studied software engineering with specialsisms in Economics and Psychology.

As principal architect he consults organizations in applying architecture and governance and supports the introduction and implementations of architectures and governance. Dennis also has experiences in interim management on architecture departments.

As Business Unit manager Dennis has the supervision over architects within Getronics PinkRoccade. He operates in different market segments, like the sector public, finance, industry and health care.

Dennis is author of several articles on Enterprise and IT-architecture and presents on serveral ICT-fora. As co-author his latest publishing was 'TOGAF: a management guide'.

As a TOGAF and SCIA-certified IT-business-architect his interest is in Information-architecture and Business-IT-alignment, or in other words: how can organizations can optimaly use IT and how can IT optimaly support the business.

Presentation
CASE STUDY: How to Anchor TOGAF™ in the Business Planning Cycle

Too often the business parts of organizations consider architecture as something extraordinary, something for the architects, something too rationalized, to much focused on correctness in all details. The architects often have the feeling "they don't understand the necessity of Architecture". With several cases Dennis will focus on the question "how to get architecture becoming part of integral business management instead of a separate discipline within organizations". How architecture can become an instrument for the CEO to bring the company to the future, instead of the playground for the architect. And how TOGAF helps and hinders in these attempts.

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