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Draft Programme Released
The draft programme for IEA2012 can be downloaded here
Keynotes
Niteworks Session
This year, IEA is running a parallel session in collaboration with Niteworks. The session will run in the afternoon of day 1. The presentations are as follows:
Draft Programme
Confirmed presentations so far are:
• Evolution and the 3 S-Curves
• Enterprise Approach towards Cost Savings and Enterprise Agility
− Ensuring Business – IT alignment
− Managing the complexities of IT
− Breaking the silo barriers
− Moving up the EA maturity ladder
• Operationalising BPM through Technology – the BPM Eco-System & “Sight-Seeing” Capabilities
• Case Study on MINDEF’s Personnel Command, the journey towards Process Excellence.
Anders Söderberg, Senior Consultant, Front End Strategy AB
Tommy Nordqvist, CEO, Front End Strategy AB
• Capability development from doctrine to fighting vehicle
• Harmonization of requirements and business development
• Architecture to bridge the gap between different national cultures and traditions
• Workshops and architecture as base and support for business development
• Commonality, and in some cases interchangeability, for operational effect and cost
• Business and IT projects failing to achieve their goals – Why EA is not delivering the value to the business that it could
• The shortfall between what IT projects are delivering and what is required to achieve the business goals.
• Clarifying key business drivers and goals
• Capability architecture: Providing a common language and framework to describe the world in business terms
• Adopting a truly technology independent start point to bridge the gap between what IT delivers and what the business expects
Lars-Olaf Kihlström, Senior Consultant, Generic Systems Sweden AB
Chris Partridge, BORO Solutions
• Issues with MODAF in its current form
• Semantic technology, the road ahead
• MODEM, what was done, patterns and examples
• Relationship between this effort and other IDEAS foundation based models
• Describes the development of the Soldier System Architecture (SSA) to define the support the MoD acquisition strategy for its future procurement approach.
• Explains the development of the MODAF model of the soldier from the top level operational views down to the system level views and detailed interfaces.
• How the human element of the soldier system has been captured as part of the overall architecture.
• How the development of the architecture, Use cases and operational context have become an integrated solution to defining the User Requirements.
• “What’s the story?” – Stories create emotional engagement in the aims of the architecture.
• “A cast of thousands!” – Great stories are made up of many interweaving smaller stories, each seen from the viewpoint of that individual narrator.
• “Every picture tells a story” – Using EA tools as aids to storytelling, as a visual canvas on which to unfold the story.
• “The plot thickens…” – Using structure to support the story, and story to support the structure.
• “To be continued…” – Hollywood-stories have an ending, business-stories don’t!
• A Case development of an Enterprise Architecture project at Serasa Experian, the largest credit information institution in the South America
• The approach used to capture information, across the organization, regarding planned and effective changes from heterogeneous sources
• The ability to generate and maintain automatically all the architectural representations of the organization, covering both IT and Business
• The importance of a dynamic time-based visualization of the architectural artefacts and representations, providing the capacity to visualize the past, the present and the planned future
• Practical experience of the application of Enterprise Architectures to support Capability Management decisions
• Discussion of the importance of aligning technical rigour with decision making processes
• Exemplar from UK Mine Hydrographic Patrol Capability programme in the use of TRAiDE (TLCM Robust Acquisition inclusive Decision Environment) to support the Capability Transformation
