Gerhard Botha is a Chemical Engineer by trade, but his formal career has always been in IT. He has been part of the Sasol Enterprise Architecture team through its inception and transformation into the Enterprise Architecture team it is today.

 Gerhard has 5 year’s of architecture experience and 8 years of general IT experience. He is knowledgeable in a wide variety of systems, technologies, programming languages and project management. He was involved with the roll- out of Sasol Synfuels' Manufacturing and Enterprise Resource Planning implementations. 

He currently carries overall accountability for the Technology Architecture domain in Sasol, with specialization in the Platform and Connectivity domains.

Presentation
Using Enterprise Architecture to Achieve Stable IT / Business Alignment at SASOL

Enterprise Architects’ attempts to align IT resources with strategy are often foiled by the ever-changing business strategy. To overcome the problem, alignment with the business operating model, rather than strategy, can bring about the needed stability in the foundation of the architecture. Sasol has developed a one- page diagram explaining the Enterprise Architecture in simple, understandable terms. This diagram will form the basis to which architecture projects, roadmaps and resources will be committed. The diagram is based on the book "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy" by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill and David C. Robertson.

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