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Stream: EA Implementation and Business Transformation
True innovation, often using new technologies, within a company or institution often finds corporate culture as its major challenge. Indeed the astute application and support of IT (i.e. information and related technology) is a key or THE key business differentiator but success is a function of the corporation transforming itself to take advantage of the capabilities technology offers. EA provides a synergistic rigour to strategic and business planning allowing the creation of visionary, effective, and efficient top-down direction that identifies the business transformation issues and emplaces resourced measures to address them. This EA/Business Transformation direction establishes a capability based roadmap with well-thought out / architected milestones. The roadmap and implementation plan bring to bear a “whole of business” approach to achieving the new corporate goals; all lines of business and corporate services work together across all portfolios to deliver the target capabilities in lockstep. EA provides the corporate milestones / “blueprints through time” allowing executives to rapidly assess the implications of current or emerging opportunities both in terms of business value and associated business transformation costs. This stream will illustrate examples the advantages of using Enterprise Architecture as an adjunct to Business Transformation.
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TOGAF 9 EA Support to Business Transformation
TOGAF 9 includes many business transformation and planning best practices. It integrates the business planning, enterprise architecture, portfolio management, operations management, systems development and governance management frameworks in a coherent end-to-end methodology that defines and then proceeds to deliver the corporate vision to transform the enterprise. Techniques such as stakeholder management, capability-based planning, business transformation readiness assessments, capability maturity models, risk management, and migration planning provide a rich set of tools for the Business Transformation Architect, Business Planner and Enterprise Architect alike. TOGAF 9 clearly emphasizes that technology innovation alone will not provide the sought after business value unless the business transformation aspects are identified and addressed. This presentation will present from a business perspective the capabilities that TOGAF 9 brings to bear within an organization illustrated by case studies and lessons learned.
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From Data to Knowledge Architecture - A Strategic Journey
Becoming a "Knowledge Based Enterprise" and gaining a real competitive and/or service delivery advantage is a difficult journey that requires a visionary business strategy, a disciplined architecture based approach and the creation of new capabilities within the organization. First there is a need for the architect to team with the strategic planners to establish an innovative business vision and the requisite information / knowledge support required. Then there has to be the definition and classification of the baseline information holdings, their actual state and the ability of the business to manage an integrated information and knowledge environment. The main challenges are no longer technology but culture and people. This presentation will highlight and illustrate the promise and pitfalls of migrating the enterprise into a knowledge-based posture using integrated service delivery lessons learned.
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Robert Weisman has spent more than 25 years in enterprise level planning and implementation for business and IM/IT capabilities, in both private and public sectors in North America, Europe and Australia.