We have all seen many ambitious EA programmes fail when it comes to execution and delivering tangible results in the real world.
This presentation describes the attempts and learning of our EA implementation journey grounded in TOGAF in a multinational/diverse company going through major business transformation. We cover our challenging balancing act in supporting both cost-centric standardisation initiatives and strong urge to support open innovation and flexibility.
Hopefully we will help demystifying EA and TOGAF by describing our EA response and approach in establishing lean and pragmatic ways of working. How we use a consumer-centric target architecture to drive the evolution of our IT foundation ensuring business change.
We believe that the architects themselves make the difference; their ability to communicate and build trust with partners in the business along the journey addressing business challenges. EA needs to stop hiding behind fancy diagram and IS/IT lingo and become a true business change agent.
Intended audience
Strategy & Planning Managers, Organizational Development Professionals, CIOs/CTOs , IT Directors and Senior IT Managers, Enterprise Architects
Key Takeaways
- Do not hide behind diagrams – Know your audience, no need to expose intrinsic IS workings and procedure
- Build trust - Communicate, communicate, communicate
- Know how and when to use your frameworks - Structure is just a tool to solve problem
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