EA and Business Strategy
Host: Walter Stahlecker, Fellow, The Open Group

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

9.00 - 9.45 The Emergence of Industry Reference Architectures in Financial Markets The Financial Services Industry has been changing substantially over the last 15 years. Client facing functions have been segregated from middle and back office, value chains have been decomposed and split up between organizations and geographies. We are talking of the industrialization of Banking. These developments had not been possible without advances in interoperability through standardization of processes and protocols. This results in standardized building blocks forming elements of industry architectures at all levels ­business patterns, information standards, standardized interfaces and applications. This presentation analyses and classifies examples of such industry architectures. It discusses their impact and application in the industry. Thomas Obitz, Principal Architect, Senacor Technologies AG, Germany Thomas Obitz is a Principal Architect with more than 15 years of experience and broad exposure across industries, focusing on Investment Banking and Capital Markets. Representing Senacor in the Open Group, he leads the TOGAF Management Steering Committee, which defines the long term strategy for TOGAF. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and publishes frequently on architecture related topics. In his career, he has helped major European companies improving their functional, technical and data architecture. He has been working on enterprise architecture programmes and large development projects. This experience enabled him to develop from software development and application architecture to become an experienced Enterprise Architect, consultant and advisor at CxO level.

9.45 - 10.30 Integrated Approach to Enterprise Architecture Governance The management processes and control mechanisms of IT governance are inadequate for holistic governance of enterprise architecture. Whereas IT governance primarily focuses on running daily IT operations, EA is primarily focused on designing the future state of architecture in support of business. IT governance frameworks such as CobiT define policy development and good practice for IT control, but EA still calls for comparable governance measures. While EA approaches increasingly address Business Architecture, EA has not yet infiltrated into strategic level corporate decision-making. There is a need for EA governance that transcends traditional IT governance and addresses the strategic, forward-looking aspects of EA. This presentations puts forward an integrated approach to Enterprise Architecture Governance that supports, bridges and extends extant ITG and EA frameworks to govern both business and IT architectures. Janne J. Korhonen, Principal, Requisite Remedy, Finland Janne J. Korhonen is an independent consultant and researcher, specializing in systemic organizational development, enterprise architecture and enterprise governance. Mr. Korhonen has over ten years of experience as an architect, consultant, team leader and developer in a variety of extensive, mission-critical and international projects. He has a unique interdisciplinary perspective to the anatomy of business in terms of business and IT architectures, governance structures and organizational behavior.

10.30 - 11.00 Break

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