Tom Urquhart leads PwC's global enterprise and IT architecture related consulting business. He has over 20 years world-wide experience helping organizations to define and deliver IT-enabled business transformation. He applies technology to solve complex business problems via joined-up technology strategy, architecture, and implementation and integration of enterprise products. Prior to PwC, he was a Chief Enterprise Architect for a major IT services company and Chief Technology Officer for several key independent enterprise software product vendors.

At PwC he has responsibility for defining and delivering the Firm's global tools, methodologies and viewpoints on enterprise architecture, and he is a strong advocate of TOGAF. In his previous roles, he was actively engaged in other standards organisations, such as the Object Management Group and the Telemanagement Forum.

His main areas of interest and expertise include service-oriented architecture, business-focused architecture development, application and data integration, business intelligence, and next-generation ERP.

Presentation
Architecture as an Enabler for Sustainability
Ensuring responsible and minimal environmental impact is high on the agenda of most organisations today. Businesses will increasingly be subject to employee, shareholder and customer pressures to demonstrate their green commitments or face consumer backlash and even loss of investors. However, the majority of organisations today have little or no visibility of their environmental footprints or an understanding of how to reduce them.

Architecture practitioners are well placed to play a leading role in improving this situation. We can clearly contribute to doing business more sustainably by increasing business understanding through joined-up business, information, systems and communications architectures - for example to enable logistics / supply-chain efficiencies. In IT, architectural analysis can expose improvement opportunities in procurement and partnerships, energy and waste management, the use of technologies to reduce travel needs. and reporting, along with an awareness of the environmental impacts of products and services from conception to completion.

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