Enterprise Architecture: Part I - Contextualizing the Practice
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The document discusses a presentation about enterprise architecture (EA). The presentation aims to explain why EA is important for organizations to achieve their goals. It defines EA as the combination of strategy, business, and technology. The presentation also outlines key benefits of implementing an EA practice such as efficiency, effectiveness, agility, and solving problems like inaccurate records and redundant processes.
Enterprise Architecture: Part I - Contextualizing the Practice
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- 2. Enterprise Architecture (EA) Presenter: Fru Louis “Building Tomorrow’s Enterprises” Part I: Contextualizing EA Why is EA important for today’s Enterprises to achieve their Organizational Goals.
- 3. Agenda The Goal: Get from baby steps, with low EA maturity in the organization to a highly mature and optimized practice.
- 4. Agenda 1. Part I: Contextualizing the EA Practice - EA’s relation to IT - Enterprise Architecture definition - Key Benefits of implementing an EA practice
- 5. Let’s Begin: Part I Contextualizing the EA Journey
- 6. Introduction • Enterprise Architecture is often thought of incorrectly as an “IT” activity • Typically the Enterprise Architecture function resides within the CIO organization which does nothing to dispel this thought (Clinger Cohen Act) • The goal of an EA practice is to take the business strategy and translate them into effective change for the enterprise
- 7. Enterprise Architecture (EA) relations to IT? Purchase, install, and maintain corporate technology assets Provide security for corporate data Turn data into information Provide assistance to reduce inefficiencies Enable new business processes Strategy IT Mission Statement: The mission of our Information Technology Department is to empower the entire organization in the use of technology through the delivery of efficient, adaptable well managed services. But, are these promises usually being kept?... Execution A typical IT department mission statement.
- 8. What is Enterprise Architecture? EA = S + B + T Enterprise Architecture = Strategy + Business + Technology EA Business Strategy Technology
- 9. Starting point for the EA Expedition: This is where it starts This alone does not tell the whole story
- 10. Traditional IT Centric Process vs EA Process EA processes help the organization make better decisions. Current process Plan business strategy Plan business process Plan IT support Find out how much things really cost Iterate EA process Plan business strategy Simultaneously: • Plan business process • Plan IT support • Get a picture of cost A holistic model of the enterprise enables a unified decision regarding business process and technology.
- 11. How does enterprise architecture do it? – Scenario I Produces a set of diagrams (Maps) that helps model the enterprise. Business process Receive info Guest purchase Compile requisition Fulfill order Deliver Manage wait time IT systems Desktops Mobile Server Complete? Sales Channels Store Locations Operations Virtual machine Database
- 12. How does enterprise architecture do it? – Scenario I Cont... With maps and models in hand, decision makers can simultaneously identify opportunities for business and IT improvement. Business process Receive info Guest purchase Compile requisition Fulfill order Deliver Manage wait time IT systems Desktops Mobile Server Virtual machine Complete? Sales Channel Store Location Operations Requisitions could be modified to capture more detailed information about the guest… …with only minor changes to the existing servers and technology infrastructure Database
- 13. Key benefits of the EA Approach for the business Efficiency Effectiveness Agility Specific benefits Problems solved Reducing headcount Reducing hardware and software licensing costs Reducing complexity Improving the quality of our products Improving our worker productivity Reducing our cycle time Inaccurate records tracking for products and resources Redundant processes are eliminated Reducing the time to roll out new products and services to customers Reducing the time required to change our internal processes Quality control problems Slow market response Streamlined work allocations improve worker productivity Quicker access to organized structured/unstructured data improves business decision making Reduced Complexity Alignment with Business Strategy Manage Change and Transformations Facilitate Innovation
- 14. Thank You for The Attention! Question Time
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