Sarina is a business and IT professional with over fifteen years of experience in the various facets of enterprise architecture. Sarina established an Enterprise Architecture practice in South Africa's incumbent telecommunications provider where she executed the role of the Chief Architect during her tenure as the global design authority chair.  Having faced the challenges of working for a large business within the Information and Communications Technology industry, Sarina understands the practical implications of establishing enterprise architecture and the value enterprise architecture could provide to the business.

Prior to telecommunications, Sarina was responsible for the model-driven architecture for a materials management solution for the Defence industry, implemented both locally and abroad.

Sarina holds a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) and a Master of Science (Management of Innovation and Technology) from the Da Vinci Institute of Technology. Her dissertation focused on the influence that enterprise architecture has on information flow within an organization.

Presentation
Case Study: EA a Key Enabler for Information Flow in the Organisation
"Boundaryless Information Flow", the vision of The Open Group, still needs to become reality in most organisations today. Access to relevant information to empower people to execute on their mandate is still a major obstacle.

This presentation will share insights gained through research of a telecommunications service provider organisation as a case study, on information flow and EA's enabling role in it. The research focused on information flow as a concept in the organisation and how it was perceived by employees taking part in focus group sessions. The same focus groups then interacted on a number of architecture artefacts and provided their shared insights on how these artefacts were perceived to impact on information flow in the organisation. The outcome of the research and the accompanying recommendations, provide food for thought for all organisations practicing EA today.

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