Derek Korff, Chief Architect, Business Connexions, South Africa
Mr Derek Korff started his career in the South African Defence Force and worked for 12 years as an Organisation and Work Study Officer. Thereafter he worked for 10 years at Infoplan / SITA (State IT Agency) as Chief Business Architect and for the past 2 years with Business Connexion as Chief Enterprise Architect on the Gauteng Share Services Center EA project. He has a keen interest in all the facets of EA and attended various courses and conferences on the subject and related matter in the United States and the UK. Derek has formal qualifications in Organisation and Work Study, Management Systems, Information System Management and Advanced Business Analysis obtained at the Technikon and University of Pretoria.

Presentation
Using EA to Move to a Dynamic Business and IT Strategy
How to move from a static business and IT strategy to a dynamic, "living" strategy that is continually maintained by the Enterprise Architecture process

Since July 2005, the Gauteng Shared Services Centre (GSSC), as a department within the Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG), embarked on a process of Enterprise Architecture capability development, supported by Business Connexion.

Since then the Enterprise Architecture capability has been established (process, framework, policy, toolset / knowledgebase, skills transfer etc.) and demonstrated in the delivery of a wide range of baselines and deliverables. The Business Architecture baseline is used to, amongst other purposes, eliminate business process duplication, to develop internal policies and to align services within Service Level Agreements. The logical and physical ICT architectures are used, apart from the mentioned plan and portfolio, to research and develop standards, to drive current system assessments etc.

The role players responsible for this development were Derek Korff as Chief Architect (BCX) and Terrence Lachenicht as Manager ICT Planning & Architecture (GSSC). Both of these members will share their experiences of Enterprise Architecture capability development and execution.

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