William Ulrich will provide an overview of business architecture and the day's agenda. This overview session is based on industry best practices and customer experiences as well as input from the BASIG and Business Architecture Guild sponsoring organizations.

Diana Krohn will outline how to leverage Business Architecture to rapidly and effectively scope and execute strategic initiatives. She will explain the benefits and fundamentals of capability-led assessment and delivery. The tools and examples in this session will change the way you collaborate with your business partners and enable transformational change.

Tammy will share Thrivent's approach and progress for introducing Business Capability Planning and Governance with an objective to enable Thrivent's business strategies and optimize the IT investment.

Steve Dean will explain how Business Architecture was used to begin transformation and resulted in key strategic decisions and initiatives. He will share how collaborating with key stakeholders on a capability-based assessment between several companies has resulted quick adoption of scope, activities and responsibilities for all parties. The approach has changed how projects are prioritized and funded.

Practitioners’ Panel: Bringing Business Architecture to Life

Moderator:

Neal McWhorter
President, Strategic Value Partners, Co-Founder, Business Architecture Guild, Co-Chair, OMG Business Architecture SIG, Co-Author, Co-Author, Business Architecture: The Art & Practice of Business Transformation.

Participants:

The Practitioner Panel provides attendees with an opportunity to ask questions and discuss topics in more depth with the morning presenters in an informal panel setting.

Participants: 

The Business Architecture Guild documents best practices in the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge Handbook and the OMG Business Architecture SIG focuses on managing and sharing business architecture artifacts. The Guild is a not-for-profit, member-based industry association that works closely with the BASIG to align best practices with emerging standards in business architecture. In this session, Guild and BASIG co-founders discuss the foundation, evolution and future of business architecture best practices and standards.

Still using value chains to figure out your architecture strategies? Does the business continually ask you what the plan is for your systems without letting you in on what objectives they're supposed to be supporting? At EDC the enterprise architecture group had been tasked with developing a strategy for overhauling the application space and we came up with one. Everyone thought it was ok. Then it went nowhere until we suddenly started reaching technology end of life issues. And then we realized the strategy we had couldn't really be translated into executable projects that easily after all. Today we have an executive-endorsed, fully funded 5-year legacy system modernization program in place that is directly enabling corporate business strategies. This session will be about how we turned the corner, by stopping the focus on Application Refactoring and focusing on Business Capabilities, Information Mapping and Value Streams.

Participants: 

We have invited participants to speak about their work in business architecture, which spans the U.S. Federal Government and Canadian Government.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are a major challenge for CIOs and IT, where conventional leadership and management techniques can often fall short. With M&As on the rise, and IT's integration role more critical than ever, it pays for CIOs to build their M&A integration capabilities using proven techniques. Business Architecture plays an important role when performing Mergers and Acquisitions. This presentation will explore the value Business Architecture brings to this activity through:

• Establishing clear expectations for comparing organizations and processes
• Determining opportunities for realizing synergies in regards to roles, systems, activities, etc.
• Ensuring that the best processes are leveraged in the new organization
• Determining the effort required to standardize processes across the new organization.

Closing Practitioner Presenter's Panel Discussion

Moderator:

William Ulrich
Business Architecture Guild Co-Founder and Business Architecture SIG Co-Chair

Participants:

We bring back our principle speakers from the day.

Join us for the OMG evening reception to discuss the day's events, and network with attendees and participants.