John is a Principal Consultant for the Defence & Intelligence Practise of the Salamander Organization.  He currently is engaged in a diverse range of architecture projects including a strategic approach to the delivery of personnel administration for the UK MoD, development of the exploitation of Enterprise and Service Oriented Architectures of delivery of UK MoD Logistic Capability.  He is also engaged in solution development with Salamander. 

Before joining The Salamander Organisation, John was the first Royal Navy Warfare Officer to undergo the Advanced Information System Course at the UK Military College of Science and he also completed a Masters Degree in Knowledge Management Systems with Cranfield University.

Presentation

Creating and Destroying Value: Support for Decision Making through EA

The strategic decision-making processes in a modern business have the potential to unlock and deliver value, and also to limit or destroy it.

This presentation gives an overview of some of the key kinds of decisions that can be informed and supported through enterprise architecture, at different stages in the EA process, and at different levels of the EA stack. 

It draws on a variety of case studies to look at what kind of support is needed in different situations, across capital as well as recurrent expenditure budgets, and to give some examples of how we can all ensure that, on balance, we create more value than we destroy.

Audience: business leaders, business architects and analysts, consultants, programme managers

Key takeaways:-
1. A key purpose of EA is to assist communities within the business to see through the complexity to understand options and implications for their role
2. IT architecture is one dimension of EA, but equally important are the other business dimensions, such as the programme portfolio architecture and the business performance environment
3. Businesses are applying EA to address portfolio balancing at a high level, with significant success in terms of confidence and performance improvement

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