Amit has worked on Enterprise-wide transformation programs through two decades. With a CDA and Methodologist background, Amit has worked independently as strategist, mentor, leader and auditor for EA, Engineering and Transformational Governance.

Amit has been inventor/originator of ideas and techniques including visual modelling techniques and UML extensions, BI/DSS techniques and Dimensional Analysis, world's first ARC-compliant EA Maturity Assessment technique, Benchmark for Enterprise Architecture Maturity (BEAM) and Beacon Architecture. Amit founded Beam Strategic Research and Consulting Ltd as a point of consolidation for research and creative problem solving innovations, and to coordinate work on strategic reviews, audits and high-end consulting.

Amit is a recognised authority on Enterprise Strategy and Governance, Socio-technical approach to transformation, EDLC-SDLC, specifics of Requirements, Architecture, Analysis, Design and Program Governance disciplines, and effective use of abstractions and modelling in them. Amit has written widely with over two dozen publications and proprietary works to his credit, including a co-authored book, an oft-quoted cover feature for The Rational Edge, management briefings for government and regulatory bodies on strategy & architecture and role of architecture maturity in commissioning, and the BEAM specification.
 
A member of the BCS Effective Leadership (ELITE) group and NHS Faculty of Health Informatics, Amit is a recognised speaker, panellist and facilitator in professional events. He is chairing the socio-technical panel at HC2009, an event running concurrently with the 22nd EAPC, and will deliver a keynote on Enterprise Architecture Management: Establishing a Tools-Supported Enterprise Architecture Practice -From Strategy to Implementation at the IBM Conference in Florida in May-June 2009.

Presentation

Beacon Architecture – What Can an Enterprise Architect Do that Retains its Value Beyond the 3-year Horizon?

EA programs commonly suffer because  EA, that they are set up to develop, neither has sufficient business vision to lead it, nor are the business architects working within the context of the program encouraged to assist in establishing business vision. Further, run as a program, EA often comes under the purview of a larger transformation program and, in effect, loses the enterprise context.

In this presentation Amit explores, suitably anonymised, experiences in EA engagements in 2004-2008, to illustrate how certain elements of EA can be developed to maximise long-term value (beyond the typical 2-3 years planning horizon) to an enterprise, irrespective of the placenta nursing the EA initiative. Areas include:

• Business Beacon led Architecture Roadmap
• Independent governance
• Separating EA dimensions dependent on and agnostic to business strategy, establishing respective evolution plans, and using the dimensions in asset classification
• Engineering capabilities for separated, yet fully traceable, solution evolution

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