This event is history, please check out the List of Upcoming Seminars, or send us an email

 Learning Objectives

What will you learn here ?

During this intensive and interactive seminar, delegates will learn to: Maximise each Enterprise Architect's contribution to the enterprise goals Tune the Enterprise Architect's strategy to the organisational culture Validate Enterprise Architecture's role in the investment process Shape the enterprise's architectural ideas and investments Grow each Enterprise Architect's leadership and influence

About this course:

There will never be enough Enterprise Architects. They are uniquely-valuable, specialised, and scarce, and their contributions come through their leadership of others. This intensive and interactive workshop focuses on the strategies that Enterprise Architects use to choose their most productive interventions and maximise their success.

How Enterprise Architects choose to invest their time and skills shapes the value of Enterprise Architecture (EA). Their interventions demonstrate, in practice, EA’s positive and durable impacts - on the changes people conceive of and design, on the investment projects that deliver those changes, and on the enterprise’s overall performance.

Enterprises constantly redesign themselves. Being an Enterprise Architect is different from many other kinds of architect. In an enterprise, anyone, at any time can have an architectural idea. Executives make architectural investments, whether they know it or not. Helping people to distinguish architectural ideas and investments from all the non-architectural ones is a vital reason why enterprises need architects.

Enterprise Architects are leaders, influencers and facilitators. They work with a scope that is specific to the enterprise goals, are tuned-in to the organisational culture, and are guided by measures of the enterprise’s structural performance. They grow their influence through their role in the investment process, their win-win network, and their leadership of others.

5 Reasons why you should attend this seminar:

• Entirely founded on Chris's practical work with leading companies around the world
• Case study based on real life situations and experiences
• Independent of any EA-related method, framework or tool
• Interactive workshop format
• Chris's seminars regularly receive 10/10 for content and style

Who should attend this course:

This course is designed for everyone who is interested in maximising the contribution of Enterprise Architecture, including, but not restricted to:

• Chief Enterprise Architects
• Enterprise Architects, Business Architects
• Change Portfolio Managers
• Senior Business Analysts
• Consultants specialising in Strategy, Enterprise Architecture or Portfolio Management

 Full Programme

Day ONE

• Why some strategies work, and some don't

• Identifying, validating and navigating strategy constraints

• Enterprise Architecture's value proposition
  
• What Enterprise Architects do, might do, and never do

• Creating structural performance metrics from operational business results

• Using 'EA Guiding Ratios' to choose the strategic priorities

• Using tangible evidence to map the organisation's Enterprise Investment Culture

• Interpreting the impact of culture on the Enterprise Architect's probability of success

Day TWO

• Ensuring the process is designed to value Enterprise Architecture

• Positioning Enterprise Architects in the process, to maximise their contribution

• Tuning-in to people's preferences for exploring and enacting strategy

• Using scenario planning techniques to drive architectural innovations and investments

• Concluding the best leadership strategy, given the organisational context

• Setting, applying and reviewing the Enterprise Architect's 'play-or-pass' criteria

• Focusing on the key relationships

• Developing a win-win basis for each relationship

 Speakers

Questions about this ? Interested but you can't attend ? Send us an email !