Aligning business and IT: Applied Architecture

Applied Architecture

Enterprise challenges

Lack of

standardised

IT services..


Lack

of standards

Poor

project

budgeting..

Slow

services,

high costs


Lack

of standards

Poor

project

budgeting

Architects

vs.

Engineers..

Slow

services,

high costs

Lack of

trust in IT


Lack

of standards

Poor

project

budgeting

Architects

vs.

Engineers

Slow

services,

high costs

Lack of

trust in IT

Failure to

deliver

objectives

The vendor delivery gap:

System

Integrators

Good at technical

delivery

Lack of focus on

customer satisfaction

Lack of key specialist

skills

Strong product and

support skills

Poor at strategy, lack

of focus on outcome

Understand business

objectives

Conceptual frameworks

inherently complicated

Poor translation of IT

strategy to IT delivery

Conceptual frameworks

present issues clearly

Translate business

strategy to IT strategy

Enterprise Architecture

Organisations

Understand business

objectives

Strong technical and

product skills

Business strategy to

IT strategy to IT

delivery

Focused on

outcome delivery

Standards based

approach

Applied

Architecture

Straightforward,

delivery focused

framework

Applied architecture - bridging the gap

Applied

Architecture

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business

strategy to IT

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Delivering

business

aligned IT

solutions


Auditing

ArchitectureAlignment

Assessment



Assessment Auditing

Creating

knowledge


Auditing

Alignment

Assessment

ArchitectureDefining

strategy


Auditing

Architecture

Assessment

AlignmentBuilding

solutions


Auditing


Assessment

Optimising

services

How we engage: Step 1 - Strategy

Everything starts with the strategy:

• Business Vision & Strategy

• Business priorities & planning

• Target Architecture Alignment

Step 2 - Standards

Create the standards:

• Translate Business Strategy into ICT strategy

• Define Reference Architecture

• Audit the ICT estate

Step 3: Plan

Operations and Planning

• The importance of business stakeholders

• Outcome focussed planning

• Measurement of outcomes

Step 4: Design

Designing next generation service architecture:

• High level designs

• Equipment procurement

• Low level designs

Step 5: Deploy

Deploying Next generation service architecture:

• Build / Migrate / Transform

• Solution commissioning

• Optimisation and enhancement

Step 6: Deliver

Knowledge Transfer:

• System acceptance testing

• Customer training

• Solution documentation

differentiators: deliverySolution delivery approach: i3

The 4 pillars of Outcome Management:

principles processes products performance

differentiators: deliverySolution delivery approach: i3

benefits: next generation services

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an award winning approach

Overall Data Centre

Company of the Year

2014

Outstanding New

Service

2013

Long term experts

in technologyGlobal

Consultancy

Passionate about

transformative IT

Who are we?

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