Chris Howard is VP and Director for the Executive Advisory Program at Burton Group. As a speaker, Mr. Howard is in demand for his thoughtful discussions of technology and society, and brings interdisciplinary perspectives to his topics. His research focus spans enterprise and application architecture, user experience, organizational dynamics, modelling and process design. Prior to joining Burton Group, Mr. Howard was an enterprise architect at U.S. Bank, and led consolidation efforts for development frameworks and channel renewal. In addition, he has been part of the academic community for more than 16 years as an associate professor and guest lecturer at major schools in North America and Europe. He serves as chairman of the industry advisory board for the College of Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati.

Presentation
Fighting SOA Fatigue with Effective EA
SOA. It used to be that those three letters grabbed the attention of technologists and executives. They seemed to offer a solution to almost every problem in the enterprise. Stilted efforts to implement SOA over the past few years, however, have led to increasing SOA fatigue.

Enterprise architects have a great opportunity to revive SOA principles while providing proper context. They are on the front line of both technical and organizational disruption brought about by SOA. In this session, Chris Howard will discuss current perceptions of SOA and the discipline of EA as a critical component of SOA success.

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