Ajit Paul is a Principal Consultant with the Business Consulting group of Satyam. He is a Certified Enterprise Architecture Practitioner in the TOGAF framework and leads the EA offering at this group. Ajit has over 20 years of industry experience and has worked with leading Organizations – Hexaware, Honda and Philips prior to his current role at Satyam. He is an Electronics Engineer with MBA and Advanced Management qualifications from MIT Sloan.

Presentation
The Strategic Role of Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture has been steadily gaining prominence as a way of organizing an enterprise’s business processes, information needs, and supporting technologies to align IT with business. Frameworks and Methodology like TOGAF and ADM has become a powerful enabler for Organizations to manage complexity and establish a meaningful lingua franca between Business, IT and key stakeholders to leverage Information Technology benefits targeted by the Enterprise.

This presentation highlights how an Organization can leverage Enterprise Architecture as a strategic tool to build agility, drive competitive advantage and sustain an impetus for innovation. Some of the key areas addressed are:

• How does an Organization select the right Operating Model aligned to its characteristic business needs and structure during the Business Architecture stage?
• How can an optimally executed 'Foundation for Execution' empower innovation and distributed leadership?
• How do you leverage the Strategy Alignment Model in the Business Architecture stage by proper selection amongcross-domain relationships where business strategy leads as the driver, and the relationships where IT strategy empowers as the enabler?

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