Live Blogging from Gartner - Wednesday Cont'd

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | Posted by AAB

Start of EA sessions:

1st bombshell: Gartner predicts that up to 50% of EA programs will be suspended because of the economic crisis.

2nd point: Opportunity for EA has never been greater

 

14 comments:

Logic Penalty Box said...

Track 1: Model and Measure Track - it looks like they have decided to segregate the enterprise into Business/Information/Technology with Solutions being the cross section. It's a good start, we were there about 5 years ago, but have evolved quite a bit since then.

Aleks

December 10, 2008 3:08 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

Track 2: Relationship and Leadership - defining the future state of the enterprise is still number 1 on Gartner's list. What EA is Not is finally a defined note now. Days of multi million $$ programs are over?! Seriously? Only if you break them down to a tactical level. Enterprise Change is now a big part of the Gartner speak.

Aleks

December 10, 2008 3:11 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

Track 3: Real Life EA: Experiences and Best Practices

Allstate - Al Newman will be cracking the Code of Business Architecture

HCSC - Bernadette Rassmussen on connecting Architecture with business context

PNC - Establishing EA Credibility

Export Bank Canada (ExIm of Canada) - from Theory to Changing Everything

Then Best Practices.

Aleks

December 10, 2008 3:13 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

There are apparently 4 different views congealing in the space - most people still think that EA is about strategic vendor systems.

December 10, 2008 3:23 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

Gartner: "Still Young: EA, Strategy, Project and Portfolio Management and Governance." True enough :)

December 10, 2008 3:24 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

"We need to unify all of these concerns" - HOW?!

December 10, 2008 3:24 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

Maturity and Focus:

Exemplary means 1/3 biz, 1/3 holistic, and 1/3 in technical/information.

Aleks

December 10, 2008 3:26 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

10% just starting out
21% ad-hoc
40% functioning - repeated once but at risk
24% managed
6% fall into exemplary bucket

Interesting corollary: isn't "All Viewpoints" synonymous with Solution Architecture?

December 10, 2008 3:27 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

Next Slide: Moving to maturity grouping 3 (managed and exemplary) means that you spend 6% more on transformational bucket, and 10% less on Run.

Group 1: T: 21%, G: 28%, R: 51%
Group 2: T: 21%, G: 31%, R: 48%
Group 3: T: 27%, G: 33%, R: 40%

(Run, Grow, Transform model from Gartner).

Aleks

December 10, 2008 3:30 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

92% of Chief Archs report to IT directly with 23% having dotted line to business. 8% report to business. Talk about the sorry state of EA.

Aleks

December 10, 2008 3:33 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

Beyond Aligning Business and IT Strategy session with Anne Lapkin.

Management experts estimate that up to 75% of enterprises fail to execute their business strategy (Mike Hammer).

December 10, 2008 5:34 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

Good idea on break in linkage between business strategy and business execution between multiple business units. That slide is similar to what I'm thinking about for "Why Good Enough is not Good" preso.

Aleks

December 10, 2008 5:39 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

So Gartner is trying to crack the TIM nut as well. The effort is not coordinated, which is ironic, because Anne just railed against the fact that lack of coordination across business units in an organization leads to delivery 'collisions'.

Aleks

December 10, 2008 6:01 PM  
Logic Penalty Box said...

The business value model from Gartner seems quite daunting. Maybe they need a new graphic? I'm not sure that it's complete, and it doesn't sound like it takes into account the motivation - BMM that OMG is working on.

December 10, 2008 6:18 PM  

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