Exploration of the role of Enterprise Architecture in capability development

1. Enterprise Architecture – Shaping and
Responding to the Surrounding
Environment.

2.  25 years in IT Industry.
 Enterprise Architect, Systems Analyst and
Program/ Project Manager.
 Significant experience in Defence, National
Security, Emergency Services and International
Disaster response.
 Prior to IT an Accountant and Financial
Services consultant.
 PhD Candidate at ADFA

3.  Is
the architect’s role to model the
organisation or transform it?
• Architecture rooted in a philosophy.
• Expression of the Enterprise’s interaction with its
environment.
• Should express the aspirations of the Enterprise.

4.  Technology driven.
 Solution focussed.
 Language is often difficult for the
“customer” to understand.
 Fails to express a vision for the
business and then link that vision to
the development of capability.
Architectures dominated by systems of analysis
and population of models.
Town planner paradigm of pipes and
connections dominates.

5.  Architecture then, in its widest sense as the building art, differs from
other arts, in being not merely essential to man for the full scope of
his highest faculties, but required for his physical comfort, almost for
his very existence. …..which at once requires the least technical
knowledge for its general appreciation, and opens the widest field
for minute inquiries and philosophical speculation. The art… which
presses the noblest of other arts into its service and bends them to
its will .. the most lowly in its origin, the most glorious in its
perfection; slowly and gradually has it risen, and by a more soaring
flight has attained to the unearthly majesty of the Christian
Minster,…
Freeman 1849

7. Inputs Output
Design
Human Needs
(Collective and Individual)
Aspiration Engineering ready design
Environmental
Stimulus
and Constraints
Philosophy

8. The art of the built environment architect is
to capture the aspirations of a client or
community and to express those
aspirations in a design which is
“engineering ready”.

9.  Inorder for EA to be of true value it must
be expressed in the terms of the
ASPIRATIONS of the organisation. It must
reflect the needs and wishes of the
organisation INTO THE FUTURE

10. Inputs Output
Design
Organisational Needs
Aspiration Engineering ready design
Environmental (Ready for the application
Stimulus of EE)
and Constraints
Philosophy

11. Architecture Engineering Build

12.  In
order to express these aspirations the
EA discipline needs to move beyond the
commonly applied mindset.

13. Information is the means
of skill transfer and
Environment is transformation mechanism
source of stressors.
Organisational behaviour
seeks to shape
outcomes in the
environment

15. : a project or undertaking that is
especially difficult, complicated, or risky
 : readiness to engage in daring or
difficult action
 : a unit of economic organization or
activity
 : a systematic purposeful activity

16. From our earliest days, the human journey
is typified be people applying process to
the use of technology to shape or respond
to the environment.

17.  Early modern human “Cro Magnon man”
 Developed blade tools
 Dealt with significant climate
change

18.  EA is an evolutionary process.
 It is an architectural process which expresses
the aspirations of a human collective in terms of
people, process, and technology, shaping
and/or responding to the environment.
 EA develops an “Engineering Ready” business
aspiration.
 EE is about capturing the AsIs and defining the
solutions to deliver the architectural aspiration.