IASA Web Summit

Dr. Steve Else, our chief architect and principal instructor, will present at  IASA Web Summit on 30 April. His topic is State of Enterprise Architecture (EA) from the Perspective of the Covid-19 Pandemic. He will include lessons learned about the existing maturity of EA itself including the lack of understanding of its potentially outstanding role for providing better-informed decisions faster across the dynamic Architecture Landscape. Not only will the presentation highlights its need to be able to contribute to Crisis Management, but also to Healthcare, Supply Chain and Logistics, Financial Services (including Banking and Insurance), as well as to Manufacturing.

Dr. Steve Else will illustrate how the low understanding among government and industry captains has led to a default to have non-architectural experts working in non-collaborative ways and failing to consider the interconnectedness at different levels of government, including globally, for enhanced collaboration, requirements gathering and agile adjustments to them, gap analysis in terms of both Capability-Based Planning and Performance Management.

His presentation will also address the enormous challenges involved with bridging healthcare mandates and economic planning in an incremental way tied to transition architectures.

Dr. Steve Else will illustrate how there has been a failure for EA to be perceived as an essential value-added team player to help with integrated project planning, collaboration and innovation across different time dimensions.

On a positive note, Dr. Else will make recommendations for how EA can mature rapidly to step up and be a critical strategic planning, governance, and project planning partner going forward, including by explaining it in as simple a way as  possible and including it in all engineering, ICT, and MBA programs, at least at the graduate levels, as well as for CxO orientations and PMO and IT Staff workshops.

IASA Web Summit,  which takes place on 30 April and 1 May, is free and one can register at:  https://iasaglobal.org/public/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=WS202004

Authored by Dr. Steve Else, Chief Architect & Principal Instructor