UW - Large public school with 16 colleges and schools and a Med Center
Enterprise Architecture in central IT but Jenni is a federated partner to EA
“The ultimate goal is to actively manage change rather than letting change manage the University."
Business Architecture: Facilitating change through common language and alignment
Industry piece on describing the Business Architecture (technology agnostic)
It is about pulling together a shared understanding of the spaces we work in
Private sector looks different in decision-making and complexity
Figuring out how to think about change in our organizations
Business architecture needs a federated model and needs to pull in those who are practicing across the institution whether they call it that or not.
EA practice supports this in different ways. Proposing a model on the slide.
EA promotes the practice of Business Architecture.
Challenge: the institution works in different ways across different areas
Good change process relies on mature organizations
Much of the work over the last years is cross-functional
Finding shared goals
Sustaining them over time
Is neutrality an important component - yes but there is also benefit to have a technical perspective.
There is somewhat of a barrier initiating these conversations from the IT Organization but that can be overcome with good, well conceived participation and building trust
This moves the IT organization towards a campus partner
A four boxer demonstrating IT’s response across two axises - Change Complexity (high to low) x Customer Readiness (high to low)