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There will never be enough Enterprise Architects.  They are uniquely-valuable, specialised, and scarce, and their contributions come through their leadership of others.  This intensive and interactive workshop focuses on the strategies that Enterprise Architects use to choose their most productive interventions and maximise their success.

How Enterprise Architects choose to invest their time and skills shapes the value of Enterprise Architecture (EA).  Their interventions demonstrate, in practice, EA’s positive and durable impacts – on the changes people conceive of and design, on the investment projects that deliver those changes, and on the enterprise’s overall performance.

Enterprises constantly redesign themselves.  Being an Enterprise Architect is different from many other kinds of architect. In an enterprise, anyone, at any time can have an architectural idea.  Executives make architectural investments, whether they know it or not.  Helping people to distinguish architectural ideas and investments from all the non-architectural ones is a vital reason why enterprises need architects.

Enterprise Architects are leaders, influences and facilitators.  They work with a scope that is specific to the enterprise goals, are tuned-in to the organisational culture, and are guided by measures of the enterprise’s structural performance.  They grow their influence through their role in the investment process, their win-win network, and their leadership of others.

All public courses are available as in-house training. Contact us for more information.

Learning Objectives

  • Maximise each Enterprise Architect’s contribution to the enterprise goals
  • Tune the Enterprise Architect’s strategy to the organisational culture
  • Validate Enterprise Architecture’s role in the investment process
  • Shape the enterprise’s architectural ideas and investments
  • Grow each Enterprise Architect’s leadership and influence

Course Outline

Successful leadership strategies for Enterprise Architects

  • Why some strategies work, and some don’t
  • Identifying, validating and navigating strategy constraints

Establishing the strategy’s scope 

  • Enterprise Architecture’s value proposition
  • What Enterprise Architects do, might do, and never do

Measuring the enterprise’s architectural performance

  • Creating structural performance metrics from operational business results
  • Using ‘EA Guiding Ratios’ to choose the strategic priorities

Diagnosing the enterprise culture for investing in change

  • Using tangible evidence to map the organisation’s Enterprise Investment Culture
  • Interpreting the culture’s impact on the Enterprise Architect’s probability of success

Validating the design of the Enterprise Investment Process

  • Ensuring the process is designed to value Enterprise Architecture
  • Positioning Enterprise Architects in the process, to maximise their contribution

Integrating Enterprise Architecture with strategies and investments

  • Tuning-in to people’s preferences for exploring and enacting strategy
  • Using scenario planning techniques to drive architectural innovations and investments

Making ‘Play-or-Pass’ decisions to maximise success

  • Concluding the best leadership strategy, given the organisational context
  • Setting, applying and reviewing the Enterprise Architect’s ‘play-or-pass’ criteria

Building the influence network for Enterprise Architecture

  • Focusing on the key relationships
  • Developing a win-win basis for each relationship

Who It's For

Leadership Strategies for Enterprise Architects is a course designed for everyone who is interested in maximising the contribution of Enterprise Architecture, including:

  • Chief Enterprise Architects
  • Enterprise Architects, Business Architects
  • Change Portfolio Managers
  • Senior Business Analysts
  • Consultants specialising in Strategy, Enterprise Architecture or Portfolio Management

Speaker

Chris Potts

Practitioner, Mentor, Trainer and Author

Dominic Barrow

Chris works with people in diverse countries, cultures and industries, helping them to grow their capabilities and performance at investing in change.  Architecture is always one of the essential ingredients for success, and shapes many of the changes that an organisation invests in.  Today’s market dynamics, accelerated transformations and increasingly fragmented changes, make the Architect’s role more valuable than ever. He has been a practicing Enterprise Architect for over 25 years, chaired EAC Europe from 2013-2017, and now chairs IRM UK’s Business Change and Transformation Conference.  Since the early 2000s he has been exploring in practice the overlaps and distinctions between Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture.  His very first EAC Europe speech, in 2002, included a model – since considerably updated – of the inter-relationships between them. Chris also wrote the world’s first-ever trilogy of business novels – FruITion, RecrEAtion and DefrICtion – in which an Enterprise Architect emerges as one of the central characters in how organisations successfully change and transform, and achieve the joined-up outcomes they need from all the individual changes they invest in. Follow Chris: @chrisdpotts

Public Courses & In-House Training: Dynamic Strategies for Investing in Change

Workshop: Investing in Architecture: Enterprise, Business or Both?

 

 

Testimonials

“Chris Potts brought relevant experience to discussions and delved into topics we wanted to discuss more”

Marie Grosvenor

Business Architecture, E.ON

“Truly an essential seminar for anyone seeking to embed enterprise architecture at the highest levels of their organisation.”

Philip Hellyer

Senior Consultant, Philip & Finch (UK) Ltd

Fees

  • 2 days
  • £1,245
  • £1,245 + VAT (£249) = £1,494
Group Booking Discounts
Delegates
2-3 10% discount
4-5 20% discount
6 + 25% discount

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations must be received in writing at least two weeks before the commencement of the seminar and will be subject to a 10% administration fee. It is regretted that cancellations received within two weeks of the seminar date will be liable for the full seminar fee. Substitutions can be made at any time.

Cancellation Liability: In the unlikely event of cancellation of the seminar for any reason, IRM UK’s liability is limited to the return of the registration fee only. IRM UK will not reimburse delegates for any travel or hotel cancellation fees or penalties. It may be necessary, for reasons beyond the control of IRM UK, to change the content, timings, speakers, date and venue of the seminar.

Venue

  • Radisson Blu Portman Hotel
  • London
  • 22 Portman Square
  • London W1H 7BG
  • UK

Accommodation

London Accommodation: IRM UK, in association with JP Events Ltd, has arranged special discounted rates at all venues and at other hotels nearby the venue. Please visit the JP Events website for further information.

Email: jane@jpetem.com Tel +44 (0)84 5680 1138 Fax +44 (0)84 5680 1139.

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