With twenty years of development and consulting experience in industry and defence, Dick's interests combine method and tool development with innovative programme assignments across a range of corporate clients. A key member of the team that invented MooD, and a co-founder of Salamander Organization, he has been influential in developing and deploying business-facing architecture 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 modelling methods and 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
CASE STUDY: Driving Balanced Portfolios through Enterprise Architecture
Balancing complex portfolios of programmes, assets or services presents a major challenge for today’s business. Understanding and visualising the options and implications of major investment decisions in highly complex environments is the greatest contribution of Enterprise Architecture. This case study introduces the benefit of an EA approach to this problem, applying modelling principles to achieve an environment for communication and analysis of enterprise performance. It illustrates the benefit of such an approach through examples taken from recent activity in both military and civil enterprises, in some cases relating to investment decisions relating to £10bns.

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