Grant is a Senior Manager within PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Performance Improvement Consulting and has spent the last 6 years leveraging Enterprise Architecture to help the public sector interpret their strategic objectives and the IT capabilities required to support these. Grant has worked with the Home Office, NPIA, HMRC and the LSC.

Grant won the best paper award at the World Congress of Engineering and Computer Science WCECS 2007 in San Francisco for his paper on the Use of Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps and Behavioral Analytics to identify cross-border smuggling activity.

Presentation

Using Targeted EA to Focus the Client on their Strategic Objectives

The presentation will discuss two case studies where an Enterprise Architecture approach was used to enable public sector clients to link their strategic objectives through to required business and IT services; this enabling in both cases the client to clarify their requirements and regain control of large (~£50 million programmes) which were going out of control.

The case study will describe how using Enterprise Architecture principles in a targeted way can quickly constrain programme scope and provide future direction of travel. Often EA practitioners are wedded to a methodology; this case study will show that by selecting the most relevant aspects of an EA framework, progress can be made rapidly and a model can be delivered to the client which they can use to create roadmaps and drive their projects forward.

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