Dick Whittington is CTO at the Salamander Organization, United Kingdom.

With more than fifteen years of development and consulting experience in industry and defence, Dick’s interests combine method and tool development with programme assignments across a range of corporate clients. A co-founder of MooD International and the Salamander Organization, he has been influential in developing and deploying visual methods and tools for improving the coherence, agility and performance of organisations.

Dick is a frequent contributor to industry events, the author of a number of patents relating to the Company’s technologies, and a contributor to the Company’s recognition through medals and awards, including the Queen’s Award in 2004 and the BCS / Computer Weekly Technology Medal in 2005.

Prior to Salamander, Dick was a lecturer in Computer Science at University of York, publishing a number of research papers and books, including Database Systems Engineering (Oxford University Press, 1987), which became a standard undergraduate text within many universities.

Presentation
Benefit Realisation through Enterprise Business Architecture within UK Defence

MODAF provides the UK MOD and its industry partners with a broad standard for modelling and co-operating in the design and deployment of enterprise business architecture solutions that unify and align the remits of individual projects and functions.

Working in this area with a range of MOD customers, Salamander have been able to demonstrate a ten-fold return on investment through improved coherence: the "first route" to benefit realisation.

Beyond this, two further "routes" have been demonstrated to offer further potential for benefit realisation:

• Improved decision making and responsiveness through active architecture views that deliver live enterprise performance dashboards.
• Improved agility, by integrating and exploiting a business-aligned SOA methodology.

Achieving this potential poses challenges in terms of methodology and interoperability, elevating the key role of standards.

This presentation describes recent experience of architecture exploitation within the UK MOD and other sectors, including benefits and interoperability solutions, pointing towards further exploitation potential.

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