Architecture Friday, Fri 26 June 2009

Fri 26 June 2009, 10.00-16.30h, Hotel Crowne Plaza Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium)	250 EUR (excl. 21% VAT)
Seminar and Discussion about Next-Generation Enterprise Architecture

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Pat Turner will discuss some of his experiences in designing, implementing and reviewing enterprise architectures. You will learn the current state-of-the-art in enterprise architecture and the way this helps to align strategy, business and technology. You will also learn the shortcomings of today's enterprise architectures, in particular in the use of EA by senior management to make strategic decisions.

John Gøtze will introduce central concepts from the new book Coherency Management - Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance. The presentation will focus on 'coherency management' as the primary goal of EA. By establishing a coherency management capability as part of their EA approach, enterprises can bring together the enterprise's strategic, business and technology dimensions, and in doing so, create a coherent enterprise based on the three core values alignment, agility and assurance. Taking a critical look at a number of EA-efforts in various enterprises around the world, John will demonstrate that coherency must be a major concern for enterprise architects. A coherency management framework will be introduced and its use demonstrated though real-life cases.

In the afternoon session, Peter Bernus looks at EA as a way to manage change and in general a way to enable the development of enterprises (not just IT/IS). It is a well known paradigm that every architecture artifact must address one or more stakeholder concerns. Peter explores two problems and suggested solutions for the EA work. The first problem is: how to ensure that the artifacts (models and descriptions) created in the EA process adequately address real stakeholder concerns. The second problem concerns the future of information management in EA. The present state-of-the-art and future trends are explored, with special consideration of the dynamics of change. Peter strongly makes the case for the need of enterprise to be "designed" and envisions the evolving role of enterprise architect in this context.