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It’s time to act now. Conquering transformation and becoming a fully digital enterprise in the 21^st century means agility is no longer a choice. Too little too late, and enterprises face the risk of becoming obsolete. 

Join ValueBlue for a deep dive into combining progressive Enterprise Architecture and change in a world of digital transformation and globalization. In this session, we’ll be discussing a best practice framework for Agile Business Transformation: governing change with ‘just enough’ architecture.  

Agile Business Transformation is the governance of an adaptive architecture that aligns with your strategic business objectives. This enables organizations to decompose value chains and create truly excellent customer value.

For Enterprise Architects with a focus on modern and digital business models, we’ll be sharing our complete out-of-the-box solution to kickstart change.

Key takeaways:

• What is Agile Business Transformation, and how does it help you cope with the challenges of change? 
• What are some of the key value drivers for success with Agile Business Transformation?
• Migrate your old world into the new era – step-by-step
• Achieving customer demand, business strategy and business operations that are perfectly in tune with each other

Noble Automation Now is both a call to action and a holistic approach to achieving more success by combining Intelligent Automation with inspired leadership. Employing Noble Automation leads to more product and service innovation, higher employee engagement, and successful business transformation.

Automation and AI are essential now and will be even more so in the future. Helping humans be heroes in this age of automation is the key to serving all stakeholders and building winning companies and teams. Fear and struggles give way to excitement and success.  

Leadership takeaways: 

• How to improve your business with Noble Automation 
• Where to start with Intelligent Automation projects
• What can go wrong, ruining the project and your career
• How Noble Automation can stop the great resignation
• How to help humans be heroes - including you!

One lasting learning from the past year is that businesses that were able to pivot quickly could accelerate investment and strengthened their resiliency. Pivoting quickly is made possible by having a composable business made from interchangeable building blocks.

Imagine being able to take apart a spaceship and rebuild it as a castle using the same building blocks, or more relevantly, take apart a dishwasher and rebuild it as a ventilator. Enterprise architects are the ideal people to lead this effort given the knowledge already derived from architecting the enterprise. In this session you’ll learn how enterprise architects can be key contributors to composable thinking using modular thinking and applying it to business and technology capabilities.

Sustainable business innovation requires a constant flow of funding for IT investment. This means aligning with business on spending priorities to ensure only those projects are funded that support the business strategy and are feasible.

EA helps optimize and focus capital expenditures (CapEx) by exposing redundancy in projects, flawed solution design, and where strong IT is needed to support business capabilities critical to market success. In providing the means to assess the project portfolio from different perspectives such as business value, architectural impact and risk, EA eliminates CapEx waste and ensures maximal return on IT investment.

Keeping up-to-date with the newest ways of implementing digital business execution can be overwhelming, especially because new enterprise architecture trends continuously vie for your attention.

This talk will explain Digital Twin of the Organization, Socio-Technical Architecture, from Project to Product, and Architecture Democratization. It will highlight which trends will escalate as organizations mature their approaches to digitalization and continuous change.

For Digital transformation to succeed; organizations must embed data-driven intelligence into current and future operating models as well as identify ways to accelerate the organizations use data. With the emergence of data, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence as core to all modern organization’s it is essential for Enterprise Architecture and the Chief Data Officer to partner and enable the data-driven future organization.

Key Takeaways:

• Digital disruption as the new normal
• Understanding of key capabilities of a Data-Driven Digital Transformation
• How to build an effective EA & CDO partnership
• Enabling the Data-Driven organization

In today's world, where agility & time to market is considered gold for a product; companies requires a holistic digital transformation. Having a consistent, common language between business and technology takes care of 50% of the problem. Business capability map not only help in establishing a common language but also drives a future business vision, technology strategy, roadmap and future technology investments.

• We always think about investing in applications and infrastructure rather than to investing in capabilities, which cut across silos 
• Transforming an organization to capability driven IT organization is way difficult to implement than it sounds 
•  Capability based IT strategy and strategic technology investment helps meet business outcomes. At the same time it helps define a systematic process for defining future/transition state and evaluating various options

Thought-leader Mr. Lee Bogner, expands his recognized guidance focusing on the value-based leadership enterprise architects bring to digital innovation strategy. He reveals approaches, and success factors – which help organizations lead in today’s business world! Mr. Bogner shares learning highlights, exemplifying how future-thinking Enterprise Architects are enabling sound as well as trail-blazing consumer digital and physical (“phygital”) experiences.
As Enterprise Architects balance the traditional domain IT governance, and simultaneously embrace the dynamically changing worlds, and ecosystems of digital innovation - new skills, missions, and methods – will advance enterprise objectives to drive mature, while driving emerging markets growth. In today’s session, Mars Digital Venture Innovations Strategist, and Hofstra University thought-leader – Mr. Lee Bogner – shares inventive approaches which digital and traditional businesses may use to propel innovation benefitting the entire ecosystem of consumers, customers, and business and technology partners!

During his session, Lee will share KEY TAKEAWAYS including:

• Learn how Innovation leadership fits the Enterprise Architecture Strategic Value Creation mission
• Learn the importance of local and global ecosystems and key partnerships, and how to organize
• Innovation ecosystem teams and Enterprise Reference Architectures models
• Learn significant methodologies for EA-led strategic innovations, including Innovations Journeymapping, user centricity and design thinking, local and global hackathons, agile test-and-learn (T&L)sprints, scaling and reusing based on T&L success
• Learn how to measure value delivered by Enterprise Architecture-led strategic innovation

Learn where Enterprise Architects as futurists, are: 

• Innovating and preparing global enterprises for improved, and market competitive consumerand customer experiences. 
• Early thinking on modern consumer, customer, and associate experience trends - including Web3, AR/VR, metaverse and practical blockchain trusted ecosystems for emerging markets AND global enterprise create new business models and value stream!

• Why you can’t do a SAP S/4HANA transformation without the Enterprise Architect
• What the major changes for EAs in the digital transformation journey are
• Key elements of a successful S4 journey

Three (Enterprise Architecture) lessons learned delivering a field enabled mobile application

The ongoing Corona crisis has made visible the perfect storm that arises from the conditions that characterise the 21^stcentury:  ever more demanding customers, shifting boundaries, endless connectivity, never experienced challenges to humanity and our planet, and, above all, constant and fast paced change. Bettina’s presentation will explore,

• why resilience is key for thriving in the 21^st century;
• how to build resilience into enterprise architecture;
• what role innovation and collaboration play;

• Challenges in Enterprise AI
• Key element of Enterprise AI strategy
• Approach to adopt AI strategy
• Key Take away

Any business transformation effort must first determine what to change and how it needs to be changed. This is basic troubleshooting. Troubleshooting requires skills that are rare and hard to master. They often concentrate among enterprise architects. This, combined with their detailed knowledge of the “plumbing” of the enterprise—the links between process performance and business outcomes—puts enterprise architects in the best position to figure out what needs to change and how it needs to change.

This presentation introduces troubleshooting as an application of the scientific method. It shows how links between process performance and business outcomes can be viewed as plumbing, using the plumbing of a building as a metaphor. Finally, it shows how enterprise architects combine troubleshooting skills and knowledge of plumbing to quickly and accurately diagnose what a business change activity needs to target.

As per Gartner, “By 2023, 60% of Organisations will Depend on EA’s Role to Lead the Business Approach to Digital Innovation”.

This demands that Enterprise Architects shift their partnership to generate ideas, connect teams and bring technology to deliver quick value on opportunities that can step change the business.

Don's will introduce Advanced Intelligent Architecture as the very foundation
for the Digital Revolution and pandemic immune Digital Workforce of the
future. It is a powerful and compelling message

Managing and securing your IT estate was difficult enough when all your applications ran on-premise . More and more organisations have started adopting multi-cloud strategy to run their enterprise workloads. By doing so, there are lot of pitfalls involved. In this session, you will learn more about:

• How to build a successful hybrid , multi-cloud strategy for integrating your enterprise workloads
• Adoption of multi-cloud
• Breaking monolith applications from on-premises to Microservices in Cloud
• Things to be taken care while moving your workloads to cloud ( Do and Don’t)
• Addressing security challenges in Multi-cloud

Takeaways:

• Integration strategy on moving workloads to Multi-cloud
• Role of an enterprise architect in the integration strategy
• Composable enterprise
• How Multi-cloud accelerates digital transformation and introduces new business models
• Agility and adaptability in Multi-cloud

We forget faces, names or numbers. But a good story? We never forget it. Instead of listing several ideas on a PowerPoint slide, a story helps convey the message in a memorable way.

New communication techniques are needed to improve overall maturity of EA and technology innovation leaders.

Learn why storytelling is one of the best tools for effective communications and how EA is a perfect tool to narrate stories to business.

Using storytelling techniques, EA and technology innovation leaders can engage leadership teams to understand how EA helps leaders make better decisions aligned with desired business outcomes.

This presentation shows how one can master the basics of storytelling to become compelling and persuasive communicators of EA. 

Key Takeaways

• The power of telling stories
• The key components of a great story
• How to apply the storytelling technique to EA concepts
• How to convey complex and technical ideas to key stakeholders in a simple and engaging manner 

In a world disrupted by exponential technologies, how do you build systems and mechanisms where extraordinary performance becomes ordinary? How great enduring organizations consistently deliver exponential leaders, growth, and value creation?

We will explore how the best cross-industry organizations leverage "the right" culture, methods, technologies, and people as the ultimate engine for value creation and sustainable competitive advantage. 

Organizations are adopting a Multi-Cloud approach to host the right business capabilities in the right cloud. Choice and flexibility of services coupled with a mature management layer enable cross-cloud mobility of workloads. In such a scenario, re-assessing the integration strategy is imperative to provide holistic insights for better decision-making.

• Understanding the challenges and benefits of integration.
• How to start the journey of chalking an integration strategy for a multi-cloud environment.
• Identify the dependencies and opportunities of integration.
• A decision framework for the right integration technology for applications.

• Industry 5.0 Enabling the Engaged Human
• How We Got Here - A Review of Industry
• Psychological Safety the New Experience Enabler
• The Era of High Tough, High Concept Solutions
• Industry 5.0 Solution Design

As Enterprise Architecture (EA) practices balance the mature domain of traditional IT governance, while embracing the dynamically changing worlds and ecosystems of digital innovation  - new skills, missions, and methods – will further enable enterprise objectives of driving mature and capturing emerging markets growth. Today’s session, Digital Venture Innovations thought-leader - Lee Bogner - showcases an adaptable framework construct for guiding innovation by Business Sponsors, Enterprise Architecture teams and Partner organizations!

Learn how Innovation, and an Innovation Framework, fits in the Enterprise Architecture Mission

• Learn how to organize teams and Enterprise Reference Architectures models
• Learn the importance of local and global ecosystems and key partnerships
• Learn many key methods for EA-led innovations, including Innovations Journey mapping, user-centricity and design thinking, local and global hackathons, agile test-and-learn (T&L) sprints, scaling and reusing based on T&L success
•  Learn how to measure VALUE delivered by Enterprise Architecture-led Digital Ventures Innovation

In today's world, where agility & time to market is considered gold for a product; companies requires a holistic digital transformation. Having a consistent, common language between business and technology takes care of 50% of the problem. A business capability map not only help in establishing a common language but also drives a future business vision, technology strategy, roadmap and future technology investments.

• We always think about investing in applications and infrastructure rather than to investing in capabilities, which cut across silos 
• Transforming an organization to capability driven IT organization is way difficult to implement than it sounds 
•  Capability based IT strategy and strategic technology investment helps meet business outcomes. At the same time it helps define a systematic process for defining future/transition state and evaluating various options

The world's data has exploded, reaching 64.2 zettabytes in 2020. A plethora of technologies store, structure, disseminate, analyse and bend this information to the shapes, we humans value. The language of business is defined in it's data, true "master data management" requires a paradigm where "data entities, attributes and relationships" are "First Class Citizens". What the heck are "First Class Citizens", don't we have enough border control issues!? The What, Why and How, accompanied by light hearted humour are all revealed in my workshop...tune in.

• Understand how to upskill your workforce with digital and innovation skills to support your digital strategy
• Running successful innovation and digital programs
• How to build a different mindset and culture within your organization

In this sessions Joe Geary will be outlining how the COVID Pandemic has created a compelling call to action for Enterprise Architecture groups to create meaningful value for their organizations.

Enterprise Architects key role is for them to help the enterprise understand and navigate the interconnectedness and complexity across Strategy, Business Capabilities, Processes, People, Applications, Data and of course change initiatives.

He talks about how EA’s can avoid the trap of endlessly trying to capture “Current State” – but instead align and focus their efforts to rapidly effect Enterprise Strategy Advancement, Run and Operations Optimization and Risk Assessment and Mitigation.

The key takeaways from this session will be how EA’s can:

• Avoid the trap of endlessly trying to capture “Current State”
• Understand and navigate the interconnectedness and complexity across Strategy, Business Capabilities, Processes, People, Applications, Data and of course change initiatives.
• Align and focus their efforts to rapidly effect Enterprise Strategy Advancement, Run and Operations Optimization and Risk Assessment and Mitigation.

SaaS has grown significantly over the last years and has become an integral part of the application landscape of every company. Some companies follow a very strict approach and point to it as “shadow IT” whereas others embrace the need and initiatives of the business and rather relate to SaaS as “business-led IT”.

EAs need to deal with the full spectrum of on Premise, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, but most often rely on manual tasks to create the full picture. Integrations to the providers of IaaS, PaaS and especially SaaS effectively help to not only continuously have transparency, but proactively manage SaaS, thus redefining the role of the EA in an ever-growing SaaS world.

Data Governance has become a hot topic in most data camps of late. Now, more than ever, governance has an opportunity to focus on the consumer impacts that data while delivering resilient systems. Governance is no longer just about defining data, building catalogues and defining standards – it is time for agility and expansion of our thoughts about governance as a whole.

• Defining agility in governance
• Building trust and engaging data consumers
• Breaking the mold – tips on driving consumer first principles in data
• The non-functional requirements that drive consumer satisfaction

This session will include a review of a recent worldwide Digital Transformation survey of 4,300 decision makers from mid to large enterprises.

One lasting learning from the past year is that businesses that we're able to pivot quickly could accelerate investment and strengthened their resiliency. Pivoting quickly is made possible by having a composable business made from interchangeable building blocks.

Imagine being able to take apart a spaceship and rebuild it as a castle using the same building blocks, or more relevantly, take apart a dishwasher and rebuild it as a ventilator. Enterprise architects are the ideal people to lead this effort given the knowledge already derived from architecting the enterprise. In this session you’ll learn how enterprise architects can be key contributors to composable thinking using modular thinking and applying it to business and technology capabilities.

It’s time to act now. Conquering transformation and becoming a fully digital enterprise in the 21^st century means agility is no longer a choice. Too little too late, and enterprises face the risk of becoming obsolete. 

Join ValueBlue for a deep dive into combining progressive Enterprise Architecture and change in a world of digital transformation and globalization. In this session, we’ll be discussing a best practice framework for Agile Business Transformation: governing change with ‘just enough’ architecture.  

Agile Business Transformation is the governance of an adaptive architecture that aligns with your strategic business objectives. This enables organizations to decompose value chains and create truly excellent customer value.

For Enterprise Architects with a focus on modern and digital business models, we’ll be sharing our complete out-of-the-box solution to kickstart change.

Key takeaways:

• What is Agile Business Transformation, and how does it help you cope with the challenges of change?
• What are some of the key value drivers for success with Agile Business Transformation?
• Migrate your old world into the new era – step-by-step
• Achieving customer demand, business strategy and business operations that are perfectly in tune with each other