Steve Rasmussen is CTO at Anglo Platinum, South Africa. He has worked in the mining industry over an extended period and has gained a wide knowledge of mining practises and related IT systems. He has contributed to or led a number of business and IT projects for both Platinum and the greater Anglo Group.

He is responsible for strategic planning and architecture for Anglo Platinum and has played a lead role in the integration of architecture into the business processes.

Presentation
Enterprise Architecture at Anglo Platinum – One Year Later

Enterprise Architecture is playing an ever increasing role assisting with the management and direction of companies. Mining companies such as Anglo Platinum have always had a very practical approach to managing their businesses but recently with the world wide increase in governance requirements they have perceived the need for tighter controls on processes and their supporting systems. This has led to Enterprise Architecture playing a major role in standardisation of business processes, leading to efficiencies and cost optimisation, and providing an exceptional platform to build better quality information to enable better decision-making.

Anglo Platinum's implementation approach has been to integrate it into the way of doing business and in particular to embed Enterprise Architecture into all new project developments. The result has been strong acceptance by the business including support directly by the CEO.

The presentation provides an update on the state of Enterprise Architecture to the company, and will highlight some of the benefits and spin-offs achieved to date.

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