Bizzdesign Enterprise Architecture Podcast

In this session, we will be talking to Regine and John at Auckland Transport about how EA is having an impact on the organization. Specifically, we talk about 

• How the team breaks down the organization into 8 domains 
• How the team collaborates to understand the goals and outcomes of the business and aligning transformation to meet those goals
• How to avoid EA being seen as the “Standards Police” and move that reputation to that of a collaborator and enabler to digital transformation 
• The development of the Government Enterprise Architecture for New Zealand (GEA-NZ) Framework and how this framework is getting attention from other governments around the world

In this episode we speak to Angel Alonso, Team Lead for the GRC practice at Mnemonic and Nick Reed, Chief Strategy Officer for BiZZdesign. We talk about Enterprise Architectures Role within Cybersecurity for the Enterprise and how it is ideally placed to help enterprises assess and mitigate the technology risks that it faces.

The Enterprise Security Architecture report referenced in this podcast can be accessed at https://www.mnemonic.no/mesa

In this episode, we will be speaking to Martijn van Glabbeek from Alliander and Joe Geary from BiZZdesign. We will be talking about how business capability maps can be developed and then used in the enterprise to create a "Rosetta" sone for IT and the Business to communicate better and identify investment and risk priorities. 

In this episode, we are joined by Milan Guenther, Co-Author of Enterprise Design Patterns and President at Intersection Group, and Marc Lankhorst, Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign. We discuss the emerging trend of increasingly blurred organizational boundaries between supply chain, partners and the customers, and the overall enterprise ecosystem - and how this necessitates a much more thorough and proactive process of enterprise design and ecosystem modeling. 

In this episode, we interview  Chris Dalby, Continuous Improvement Lead at MS Amlin. Chris has deep and rich tenure in the areas of Operational Excellence and regulatory compliance in the financial services space. In this podcast, Chris talks us through how his group is leveraging the power of Enterprise Architecture to develop the process and tools needed to satisfy the regulatory requirements MS Amlin is required to comply to.

In this episode, we speak to Sian Van Es, Senior Enterprise Architect at CGI. CGI is one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. Sian tells us of her insights in not only working internally with CGI - but with CGIs clients as will. Sian also gives some fascinating insight and tops tips for how EA can successfully operate in an agile environment.

In this episode, we speak to Ian Anderson at Ellucian. Ian has deep experience in Enterprise Architecture in the Higher Education space and begins by drawing the parallels between Higher Ed and Enterprises - noting that both are businesses and in that respect very similar in how they operate - the only difference being that Higher Ed talks about Faculty, Students and Courses - whereas enterprises talk about staff, customers and products. We hope you enjoy the interview.

In this podcast, we speak to Cameron Spence at Thames Water. Cameron speaks about a range of issues, from implementing an application management system at Thames Water to the need for EAs to be able to translate all the different languages in the business to how to crystalize the value of EA to the non-EA executive in the organization. 

In this interview we speak to Marc Lankhorst, Marc is Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign. In this role he works with EA teams all over the world. In this interview, Marc talks about how EA teams can position themselves with the C-Suite - and how to talk about what they do in a manner that resonates and demonstrates value to the Non EA Business Executives

In this episode, I speak to Joe Geary, VP of Customer Success at BiZZdesign. Joe has over 30 years of experience as a true IT and EA practitioner. Today his focus is working with EA teams, large and small, mature and just starting,  in a range of industries - helping them identify how to drive value, early and often, to their organizations.