Judith Jones, the CEO of Architecting the Enterprise, the global market leader in TOGAF Training and Consultancy is an experienced Business Manager and IT Consultant. Judith's prime experience includes business re-engineering, business architecture, enterprise architecture and governance, architecture practice management, business value engineering, IT strategy and management. Judith has worked with many Fortune 100 and Government agencies to develop architecture competencies and capabilities. Her background experience includes more than 20 years as a business manager with ICL, now Fujitsu Services.

Judith is a champion and practitioner of Enterprise Architecture standards, including TOGAF and TOGAF certification, for over 20 years and was instrumental in the development of ICL’s OpenFramework. Judith is an active member of The Open Group and is a major contributor and an editor of TOGAF 7, 8 and 9 as well as leading TOGAF projects for localisation, case studies, ADML, synergy and collaboration projects.

Judith is co-author of the TOGAF and DODAF alignment paper.

Presentation

TOGAF 9 and Business Alignment

Business and IT alignment has been a key goal of senior management for many years – how successful the alignment makes a difference to the business performance of organisations.
The IT Industry considers that Enterprise Architecture is a key enabler for business and IT alignment. This presentation examines

• why the industry’s customers are keen to develop business models to help them do this and
• use an Enterprise Architecture approach to clarify their enterprise’s interoperability with other enterprises.
• the role that TOGAF version 9 can play to accelerate understanding and business co-operation and
• enhance business performance through an organisation’s Enterprise Architecture.

Business schools promote the use of management tools and competencies to improve business success – how can these complement the Enterprise Architecture Framework and just how effective can they be. Is Enterprise Architecture the framework for Management Sciences?
Can TOGAF Version 9 make a positive business performance difference?
Is it the tool to provide senior business managers with the capability to finally gain control of their business and IT?
Lets get the thinking right!

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