Stuart Macgregor is the Chief Executive of the South African company, Real IRM Solutions (www.realirmsolutions.co.za). Through his personal achievements, he has gained the reputation of an Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance specialist, both in South Africa and internationally.

Macgregor participated in the development of the Microsoft Enterprise Computing Roadmap in Seattle. He was then invited by John Zachman to Scottsdale Arizona to present a paper on using the Zachman framework to implement ERP systems. In addition, Macgregor was selected as a member of both the SAP AG Global Customer Council for Knowledge Management, and of the panel that developed COBIT 3rd Edition Management Guidelines. He has also assisted a global Life Sciences manufacturer to define their IT Governance framework, a major financial institution to define their global, regional and local IT organizational designs and strategy. He was also selected as a core member of the team that developed the South African Breweries (SABMiller) plc global IT strategy (www.isaca.org/ctcase8.htm).

Stuart is part of the core Open Group team developing the TOGAF 9 standard for Enterprise Architecture. He is also assisting the IT Governance Institute ( www.itgi.org ) map CobiT 4.0 to TOGAF.

Presentation
Governance, Architecture and Strategy - Fuelling Business Value

Peter Weill's ground-breaking research concludes that "effective IT governance is the single most important predictor of the value an organisation generates from IT", but there is no single model of good corporate governance. In their 2006 book, Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David Robertson reach "a counter-intuitive but vital message: when it comes to executing your strategy, your enterprise architecture may matter far more than your strategy itself." Without adequate governance, however, Enterprise Architecture will remain a theoretical concept and will fail to deliver the desired business benefits. Governance is fundamental in entrenching Enterprise Architecture into a business, to ensure a new, and more profitable, way of working. This presentation examines the direct links between Ross and Weill's research, TOGAF and CobiT 4, so as to understand how to develop and sustain a business-appropriate enterprise architecture practice.

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