Troux 2011: Investing for the Future through Strategy and Architecture at Cisco Systems

Imran Qayyum, an EA for Cisco, was the presenter for this session. They used the Proact BOST framework (Business Operations Systems and Technology) to get started, providing an industry specific reference model. Imran’s team is responsible for development services, which covers all sorts of software development technologies necessary for the Cisco Engineering teams to design […]

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Troux 2011: Technology-Enabled Health Care

Sandra McCoy, Executive Director for Enterprise Architecture with Kaiser Permanente, gave this talk, subtitled as “Architecting Standardization in a Complex Healthcare Organization.” She mentioned that the challenges her team faces are that architects would like to work in a nice orderly fashion, but the environment never allows for that. It’s an uphill battle, with blind […]

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Troux 2011: Strategy Management Through Enterprise Architecture

Warren Ritchie, CIO for Volkswagen Group of America, presented this session and told us about his personal journey with EA, its utility in a globalization concept, and how the EA program at VW Group of America provided initial benefits. He believes that EA is the missing piece in strategy management. In his PhD dissertation (he […]

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The Dynamic Side of BPM

One goal of business process management (BPM) is to automate and streamline human-centric business processes with the intent of benefiting from lower costs, increased productivity, greater control and better response times.  However, not all processes are easily automated and governed.  Many organizational processes are often unstructured in their nature and simply cannot be mapped out […]

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Troux 2011: How to Develop an IT Strategy to Accelerate Business Goals

The first session I’m in is one of the few sessions by Troux staff at the conference, being given by Bill Cason, CTO of Troux. Always nice to see a CTO doing these things. Bill went over the IT strategy planning process, involving the business, the office of the CIO, and enterprise architecture. There was […]

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The Power of Knowing Where You Are Going

; So, you might ask, what do Bruce Lee and EA have in common? Well, as a long-time martial artist and Bruce Lee fan, the connection should have been clear to me. But it wasn’t. That was until a friend emailed me a link to a blog called “Letters of…