Stuart Macgregor is the Chief Executive Officer 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 organisational 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.

Tutorial
Architecture Governance
Without adequate governance, Enterprise Architecture will remain a theoretical concept that will fail to deliver the desired business benefits. Governance is fundamental in entrenching Enterprise Architecture (essentially a new way of working) into a business. Peter Weill’s ground breaking research concludes that “effective IT governance is the single most important predictor of the value an organization generates from IT” but there is no single model of good corporate governance.

This presentation examines the direct links between Peter Weill’s research, TOGAF and CobiT 4 with the objective of understanding how to develop and sustain a business appropriate enterprise architecture practice.

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