Tom Graves has careered around the odder edges of the IT industry for most of the past three decades. In the late 1970s and early 80s he was one of the pioneers of desktop-publishing in Britain; in the late-80s he worked on communications systems and robot trucks in the US; in the 90s, aircraft-testing and e-commerce systems in Australia. Since then his emphasis has been on enterprise-architecture, including strategy and vision, data-architecture, workflow systems and long-term knowledge-management.

A cross-disciplinary generalist by inclination and by training ­ a Masters degree in General Studies from London's Royal College of Art, with postgraduate studies in knowledge-management, organisational complexity and strategic foresight ­ he is an experienced communicator and author, with nine books published in a dozen languages worldwide.

His current aim is to help move enterprise-architecture beyond a narrow focus on IT, and towards an integration of everything the enterprise is and does.

Presentation
Unpacking TOGAF's Phase B: Business Transformation, Business Architecture and Business Buy-In

Given enterprise-architecture's IT heritage, it's not surprising that most EA attention is still focussed on technology, applications and data. But without a strong integration to business-architecture, we have no business buy-in - and, soon, no business support. Using examples from a variety of business-transformation projects in Australia and elsewhere, this presentation explores what works, and what doesn't, in creating that integration - and illustrates one possible way toward a broader-based enterprise-architecture.

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