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  Marné de Vries —- University of Pretoria, SA  
photoMarné de Vries is lecturer in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa

In 1995, Marné graduated with a degree in Industrial Engineering. She then joined a management consulting company and worked as a consultant for seven-and-a-half years. During these years she worked as a Business and Systems Analyst where she was involved in various projects. These included: facility layout; business process engineering and procedure development; and analysis, design, testing and implementation of various systems (maintenance / decision-support / document management / bespoke).

In 2003 she joined the University of Pretoria, becoming a lecturer on Engineering Statistics, Information Systems Design and Enterprise Architecture. She also pursued her post-graduate studies in order to obtain a masters degree in Industrial Engineering. Her dissertation proposed an integrated process improvement and knowledge management maturity model for management consultancy organisations.

   
 

Presentation
Linking Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Architecture to Create Business Value

Industrial Engineering (IE) is about the analysis, design, planning, implementation, operation, management and maintenance of integrated systems. The main aim of any IE endeavour is to follow a holistic and process-centred approach to improving systems to add business value and gain superior organisational performance. Enterprise Architecture (EA), on the other hand, aims at analysing and documenting an enterprise in its current and future states from an integrated strategy, business, and technology perspectives. This paper discusses the concept of using the Business Architecture layer of EA to link IE initiatives with EA initiatives. This approach provides the opportunity of constructing an EA integration foundation while improving business performance.

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