Enterprise Architecture

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Enterprise Architecture -- a catalyst to manage
complexity and achieve transformation. TASSCC
Conference -- August 2, 2010
Presented by Ritchie Schlette Consulting IT
Architect -- Enterprise IT Optimization ritchie.sc
hlette_at_mainline.com Ph. 214-454-7108
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Global Public Sector CEO Study

• The vast majority of CEOs anticipate even greater
  complexity in the future, and more than half
  doubt their ability to manage it.
• CEOs believe creativity is the most important
  leadership quality.
• The most successful organizations co-create
  products and services with customers, and
  integrate customers into core processes.
• Better performers manage complexity on behalf of
  their organizations, customers and partners.

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CEO StudyHow to manage Complexity
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The need for Enterprise Architecture

• Management needs the big picture.
• They need a view that combines strategy, business
  architecture, information systems and technology
  domains. This is crucial for quickly analyzing
  the impact of proposed changes and prioritizing
  projects that drive the most value to the
  business.
• Align IT investments with business goals.
• Creating a platform for business-IT stakeholder
  collaboration is essential. Effective enterprise
  architecture supports strategy, analysis and
  planning by providing stakeholders a blueprint of
  the current state of the business and IT
  landscape as well as the desired future state.
• Enterprise applications, systems and platforms
  have complex interdependencies that make it
  challenging to enhance IT capability.
• An enterprise architecture strategy is essential
  to achieving successful, lasting transformations
  -- such as major SOA initiatives and package
  application implementation -- and managing the
  inherent risks of technology-enabled business
  transformation. Reverse the 80/20 scenario

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Key Components of Enterprise Architecture

• IT strategy establishing the overall IT strategy
  for an enterprise including the
• SOA Strategy, Application Support Strategies,
  Governance models and innovative technology
  strategies.
• IT performance management helping to improve IT
  processes to deliver higher quality and reduced
  costs.
• Tied to Process Improvement and Business Impact
  Analysis
• Logical and Physical Architecture helping to
  establish/evaluate an overall enterprise
  architecture and/or SOA for the business.

• Strategy Model

• Process Model

• Application Model

• Infrastructure Model

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Developing an Enterprise Architecture is a
Journey conveyed via a Roadmap. It is founded in
the Clients purpose within an affordable cost
and delivered in an acceptable period of time.
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Methodology Step 1 Know where you are going
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Services Model
IBM Service Delivery Model Global Social Segment
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Successful Enterprise Architecture is a Balance
of
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Architect the Process and the Human Capital
Interaction
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How do you begin?

• Engage Mainline to
• Develop a High Level Understanding of the ITO
  needs of your Company with a Client Sponsor and
  assign a set of Subject Matter Experts to the
  joint EITO Team.
• Execute an EITO Workshop and set of due diligence
  interviews with selected business and IT
  resources to gather information by which to build
  the ITO roadmap.
• Compile a Roadmap with specific recommendations
  and next steps by using the methods and best
  practices of EITO.

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EITO workshops view the problem from different
perspectives in one place
An EITO Workshop An impact analysis and
execution plan
Goals Measurements What are you trying to
achieve?
Business Interactions Rapid overview of the
business impacts at all layers
Value Chain What is impacted?
Swim-Lanes How do we execute change?
Problems What is not working?
Opportunities What does the strategy prescribe?
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EITO workshops deliver an impact-based business
analysis and roadmap
A Business Impact Analysis

• People, Process, Technology, and Cultural changes
  to implement strategy
• Prioritisation of Initiatives
• Clear linkage to goals and measurements.
• Understanding of the Return on Investment

An EITO Roadmap

• Clear understanding of the impact of change
• An EITO Roadmap to support the long term
  management of critical changes
• A building block to accelerate future projects
  consolidation, utilitization, commoditization,
  outsourcing
• Knowledge to manage change control and risk better

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Closing Remarks -- Enterprise Architecture will

• Help management analyze, plan and execute change
  faster and with better insight.
• Get IT and business stakeholders collaborating
  for better alignment around requirements.
• Create enterprise blueprints as a roadmap for
  exploiting IT architectural building blocks and
  achieve business transformation.
• Attain improved compliance and more predictable
  project outcomes.
• Improve IT contribution to business returns with
  improved integrity and agility.

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Contact Information

• Ritchie Schlette
• Mainline Information Systems
• Consulting IT Architect --
• Enterprise IT Optimization
• ritchie.schlette_at_mainline.com
• Ph. 214-454-7108