Hey there, and welcome to another episode of the Enterprise Architecture podcast produced by Bizzdesign. I’m Will Hardison, one of Bizzdesign’s marketing managers and if my recording sounds a little different than normal, well that’s because I’m sitting in my hotel room at Ceasars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada gearing up for Day 2 of the Gartner Application and Solutions Summit using my phone as a recording device. Hey, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do...but I am so glad you’re tuning in because we’ve got a great episode for you today.

In this episode, we’ll listen in on our great fireside chat focused on the state of enterprise architecture from our Bizzdesign Connect Conference held back in April of this year. Every year we survey over 1,000 Enterprise Architects to get their take on the State of Enterprise Architecture. We combine those results into a full report which can be found on our website under the resources tab, but in this episode, we’ll hear from industry leaders as they unpack their thoughts on the results of our survey such as overcoming the challenges of showing value to your organization and how Enterprise Architecture help your organization align with business investments. I hope you enjoy this fireside chat from our Bizzdesign Connect conference around the State of Enterprise Architecture

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Dave is the Area VP of Enterprise Architecture EMEA at ServiceNow.  During his presentation, Dave focuses on “humanizing enterprise architecture” – staying mentally healthy, keeping in mind that humans use the systems we design, and embracing change. At ServiceNow they actually use the acronym LEAP which stands for “lean enterprise architecture for people”. Here’s the conversation between Dave Armes’ and Bizzdesign’s Chief Strategy Officer, Nick Reed from Bizzdesign Connect 2023.

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In this episode, I chat with Matthijs Scholten, otherwise known as the architect kid. He is the product and innovation manager at Bizzdesign and is responsible for Bizzdesign’s innovation portfolio, product vision, strategy, roadmap and product development. I hope you enjoy my conversation with the architect kid.

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Before we launch into 2023, I thought it would be a great idea to listen in on a few of our top podcasts from 2022. We’ll hear from Eddie Walker from Edifit on his top 10 tips for successful Enterprise Architecture, next we’ll listen in on a conversation between our Chief Strategy Officer Nick Reed and the President and Founder of Intellyx, Jason Bloomberg on the secret for architects in driving digital transformation, and finally Dr. Michelle Supper, a senior advisory executive architect at ServiceNow, wraps up today’s episode with Calling all Enterprise Architects: Your Role in Digital Transformation.

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In this episode, we speak to Mike O’Dell. Mike is president of XpertMinds and has previously held a number of full-time and fractional CIO positions across a range of industries. Mike gives us his insight on how enterprise architecture teams can best go about aligning themselves to the mission of the CIO. 

In this episode, we speak to Sunil Rananavere. Sunil is the Director of Digital Business & Technology Consulting at Cognizant, the global IT services and consulting firm, he is also a very seasoned enterprise architect. We cover a number of areas and specifically talk about Sunil's observations on the key mistakes that EA teams can make - and his resulting top 3 pieces of advice.

In this episode we speak to Simon Cross. Simon is a seasoned enterprise and security architect who previously held senior positions with organizations such as NatWest Banking Group, Lloyds Bangs Group, BAE Systems, and Hewlett Packard. Simon is now Head of Security Solutions here at Bizzdesign and today he introduces the initiative he leads here - Secure by Design. 

We would also like to let you know, as we hopefully move beyond COVID, that in-person conferences and trade-shows are re-emerging, You can meet us live at the Gartner IT Symposiums and Xpos in Orlando, Florida October from 17th to the 20th of October and again in Barcelona, Spain from 7th to the 10th of November. 

In this interview, we speak with Dr. Michelle Supper, a senior advisory executive architect at Service Now. In this role, Michelle consults with a wide range of enterprises and their enterprise architecture practices to help them with their digital transformations. In this session, Michelle draws on her wealth of experience and gives her insights on how EAs can have the most impact on a company's digital transformation journey, in the particular the subtle and oftentimes overlooks the role of EAs in translating the vision and the needs of a transformation between all the layers of a company - from the C-Level on down 

In this session, we speak to somewhat of a legend in the Business Architecture community - Roger Burlton. Roger is President of the Process Renewal Group, and longtime chair of numerous industry conferences including Business Business Capability and IRM UK. He is also an accomplished author on the subject of business architecture and has recently published his new book Business Architecture: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting the Dots. 

An interview with the legendary Sam Holcman and how he started his EA career and worked with the equally legendary John Zachman. Sam talks about the educational courses that the EACOE runs for EAs that go beyond the technical aspects of EA into the key skills EAs need to have to communicate and do their job in the enterprise.