strong>Topic: Realizing Corporate Strategy with Enterprise Architecture
3rd May 2011
Speaker: Vice President - Consulting & Strategy
strong>SPEstrong>ECH SYNOPSIS
As information technology (IT) increases in complexity and technology becomes integral to the product and service delivery, Enterprise Architecture (EA) is becoming critical to an organization’s ability to realize its strategy. Managing organizational change and moving an organization to the right direction is a complex challenge, which requires discipline, collaboration, resilience and above all accurate and timely information about the organization.
Execution of challenging projects or initiatives to achieve the corporate objectives requires the use of actionable enterprise architecture practice that focus on execution rather than documentation. Enterprise Architecture is the continuous practice of describing the essential elements of a socio-technical organization, their relationships to each other and to the related environment in order to understand complexity and enable the management of change. The aim of the Enterprise Architecture is to enable the owners, planners and designers with the tools to understand current state of a complex business (the AS-IS model), reduce complexity, mitigate risk, assure quality, describe the future state of the business (the TO-BE model) and bring seamless and effective change. The absence of the enterprise architecture (EA) leads to complexity, loss of quality, increased risk, missed opportunities, customer dissatisfaction and stakeholder disengagement.
Organizations are increasingly looking to articulate business strategies via a business architecture and business process maps as input into technology planning cycles for truly integrated business and IT planning. Enterprise architecture planning in a vacuum of business plans cannot be effective. Increasingly, business planning without closely linked technology architecture planning works against business-IT alignment and synergy, limiting effectiveness and the opportunity for innovation and organizational growth.
Topic: Skills Gap in the current age of Advance IT Network Infrastructure
05th May 2011
Speaker: President & CEO
Organizations are looking to IT to bring cost savings and efficiency to the business in the unsure future. In most organizations, this has led to IT being tasked with increasing network design complexity through the uptake of higher-level networking communication tools as well as network infrastructure consolidation, often in tandem. In many organizations, IT may have mastered the initial design and implementation steps, but optimization and integration to the design of future technologies have not matured as a key network operations and management skill set.
Understanding where this skills gap takes place in the networking technology life cycle, and taking steps to mature network operations beyond “install and run” competencies, will help ensure IT operations — and more specifically, network operations — rise to the challenge of making the business more efficient.