One Day Management Overview: Enterprise Architecture Planning

Ask any business person what they want from their IT function? (A) Timely access to data in a useful format whenever and wherever needed, (B) flexible adaptable systems that respond to rapidly changing business conditions, (C) accurate and consistent data throughout every department, (D) seamless integration and data sharing across the enterprise, (E) dependable security and reliability, and (F) to have all this at a reasonable affordable cost.

That is intuitively obvious, right? So why hasn’t IT been able to deliver? Answer: the approaches typically used for planning and implementing systems and technology CANNOT achieve the mission stated above, no matter how much funding and technology is consumed!

The first step is to adopt A through F above as the new mission of the modern IT function which, in short, is to provide quality data to everyone in the business that needs it. However, quality data does not happen accidentally, nor will it result from focusing on application development productivity, installing the latest hot-shot technologies, or even asking "users" to specify their system requirements! How many generations of technology, fads, buzzwords, centralization/decentralization swings, silver-bullets, and multi-million/billion dollar failures will it take to realize that a fundamentally different approach is required? The only planning-for-quality approach for the new IT mission is Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP).

Virtually every organization has one or more of the following imperatives underway or planned: (1) data warehouses for decision support; (2) inter- and intra-networking, web sites, and electronic commerce; (3) distributed client/server systems; (4) object-oriented system development; (5) business process improvement or re-engineering; and (6) evaluation and selection of cross-functional application package solutions. To travel any of these roads, enterprise-wide architectures should be created to serve as your roadmap. Without architectures, these roads will lead back to the same place, namely, widespread redundant and inconsistent data, independent stovepipe systems, interfaces requiring frequent and costly maintenance, duplicate application systems, and an inability to integrate and share data across the enterprise. Indeed, nearly every industry expert (data warehouse, object-orientation, client/server, etc.) recommends that blueprints be created before plunging into new technologies and methodologies.

Unfortunately, most IT organizations remain plagued by sharply rising budgets and a plethora of stovepipe systems and databases containing redundant, incompatible data. Despite major expenditures for technology, user satisfaction and service levels remain low. One might say, to use an analogy, that IT isn’t "healthy." For most people, an enormous commitment and change of life-style would be necessary get into the pink of good health, whether losing weight, quitting a bad habit, or running a marathon. The same goes for IT. Always remember the adage "if we keep doing what we’ve been doing, we’re going to get what we’ve already got." The blueprints and migration plan from Enterprise Architecture Planning are the get-well prescription for IT.

What You Will Learn

Who Should Attend

The Management Overview is aimed at the CIO, steering committee, chief architect and business executives who want to understand why the phenomenal returns from integration and flexibility have eluded them, and how get off that merry-go-round of building, rebuilding, and rebuilding systems. The briefing can also serve as an introduction to EAP for those who will be learning the details of the methodology in the three-day seminar.

Seminar Outline

About Your Instructor

Dr. Steven Spewak is President of Enterprise Architects, Inc. a Princeton, NJ firm providing services in EAP, data warehouse, IS restructuring, and business re-engineering for corporations and government agencies. His experience spans more than twenty-five years as a roll-up-the-sleeves hands-on consultant for enterprise architecture planning, information engineering, and data administration. He is the author of the acclaimed textbook Enterprise Architecture Planning published by John Wiley & Sons (more than 16,000 in print), and was the chief technical editor for the Data Resource Management journal and Data Base Management information service published by Auerbach.

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