Nick is vice president technology and marketing and a board member for CGI's Northern European Business.   He is responsible for business and technology consulting working across financial service, insurance, government and telecommunication sectors. Specific areas of interest include alignment of business and IT strategy, technologies that improve business time to market and operating efficient virtual teams.

Comfortable with communicating at all levels; Nick provides thought leadership and routinely acts as a trusted adviser to business and technology CxO's.   Nick brings over 20 years professional services experience across financial services, capital markets and government sectors in the UK, USA, Australia and Hong Kong. In addition Nick has worked for many of the leading technology vendors in the market, including IBM, Hewlett Packard and Unisys.

Presentation
Responding to Business Innovation, Growth and Retrenchment in the UK Mortgage Industry
The UK mortgage industry has experienced years of growth driven by low interest rates and high housing demand.  Capital market innovation has broken the historic coupling between savings and loans easing lending limitations - and arguably played a part in the first run on a UK bank in a century.

We explain business architectures where money is raised from the capital markets and where it is raised from savers - and why and how the underlying IT architectures are substantially different.

We examine ways in which IT architectures can respond to pressure for growth, channel innovation and retrenchment.  In this situation, whilst an architectural vision is important, a flexible architectural roadmap that safely delivers business value matters much more.

Audience:
Business leaders, IT directors and Enterprise architects

Key takeaways:
1. The relation between business and IT architecture
2. When SOA fits and when it doesn't
3. How to respond to rapid change

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