webinar: is your it transforming your business?
DESCRIPTION
The pace of business and information technology change is fast. Are you making the best IT investments to realize your business strategy? Tom Philbin will describe how Dell has used a few simple Enterprise Architecture best practices to focus strategic IT investment, keep IT nimble, and manage IT complexity through periods of rapid business change.TRANSCRIPT
Is IT Transforming Your Business?
Tom Philbin
Sr. Enterprise Architect
November 2013
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2 messages for you today
1. The story of IT Strategy & Architecture at Dell
2. Dell’s approach and how you can do something similar
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By the Numbers: Strategy & Architecture
60%+ Application
Rationalization since 2008
32 Acquisitions since 2006
83% Defect removal efficiency (DRE)
4 New business
models; multiple channels
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Explosive Growth + Strategic Shift = IT Complexity Handful of applications Approx. 6,500 applications
Our approach to EA has simplified our environment to less than 2,400 apps while supporting an increasingly complex business.
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Dell IT’s Approach to Transformation
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Our Architecture Method: Enabling strategic outcomes
Understanding Dell’s business needs and IT’s value proposition (ITSP)
so we can define our architectural goal (ESRA),
long term, low-fidelity strategic architecture plan (ASD)
high-fidelity program architecture enabling strategic delivery (PAD)
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Strategy Goal 3-5 yr Plan Program
Architecture
EA Consulting Services 5
and produce both a and then a
Architecture Oversight 6
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Our Architecture Method: Enabling strategic outcomes
SO WHAT? What does this mean to your stakeholders?
BU & Functional Leaders: “When will I get what I need to realize my strategy?”
IT Leaders: “How can IT best-enable business strategy?”
Understanding Dell’s business needs and IT’s value proposition (ITSP)
so we can define our architectural goal (ESRA),
long term, low-fidelity strategic architecture plan (ASD)
high-fidelity program architecture enabling strategic delivery (PAD)
1 2 3 4
Strategy Goal 3-5 yr Plan Program
Architecture
and produce both a and then a
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EA Specializations: From Concept to Outcomes
EA Skills Based on
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IT Strategic Plan
EA-specialization overlay of Key EA Deliverables: IT Strategic Plan
EA Skills Based on
= Primary accountability
Table of Contents 1. Business-Enabling Strategy 2. IT Foundational Strategy
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End State Reference
Architecture
EA-specialization overlay of Key EA Deliverables: End State Reference Architecture (ESRA)
Table of Contents 1. Business Architecture 2. Solution Architecture 3. Information Architecture 4. Infrastructure Architecture
EA Skills Based on
Framework Based on
= Primary accountability
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EA-specialization overlay of Key EA Deliverables: Architecture Strategy Document (ASD)
= Primary accountability
EA Skills Based on
Framework Based on
Application 1
Application 2
Interface (information)
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EA-specialization overlay of Key EA Deliverables: Program Architecture Document (PAD)
= Primary accountability
EA Skills Based on
Framework Based on
Thank You!
Tom Philbin
Sr. Enterprise Architect