Driving Business Innovation with Enterprise Architecture, Chris Potts, 19-20 September 2013, London

The  purpose of Enterprise Architecture is to improve business performance.  Success  depends on having highly-influential Enterprise Architects, providing  leadership in business decisions about the enterprise’s structure, innovations  and investments in change. 

The  more that Enterprise Architects drive better business performance through innovation,  the greater the influence they can have.  As the history of Enterprise Architecture has also shown, the opposite is also true.  The less it impacts  business performance, the less influential Enterprise Architects will be,  however much they excel at the technical aspects of their role.

This seminar is designed for Enterprise Architects and the people they work with, to  explore how best to make Enterprise Architecture a highly-valued innovative and  influential business discipline.  At its core, this means integrating formalised Enterprise Architecture with corporate and business strategies, business planning, and the process of creating value from investments in change. 

The  focus of the seminar is on how to embed Enterprise Architecture into mainstream   business decision-making, rather than on the frameworks and processes that Enterprise Architects use.

Chris Potts works globally as a hands-on practitioner, and as a mentor to Enterprise Architects, CIOs      and their executive colleagues.  He has over 25 years’ real-world experience in corporate, business and IT strategies, Enterprise Architecture, investing in change, and project delivery.  He is the author of two books - “FruITion:  Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology”, and “RecrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary Contribution of Your Enterprise      Architects”. 

Chris is an award-winning speaker, delivering seminars and conference keynotes   worldwide.  He has also given guest lectures on Enterprise Architecture at the   IT University of Copenhagen, and on the different generations of CIO strategy at   both New York University and City University, London.  He has judged ‘CIO of the   year’ awards in both the USA and the Middle East.

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