Open Group 2012 – Cannes, France: Day Two Highlights

April 25, 2012 | ,

Day two was full of insightful information and ideas at Open Group Cannes. Here are some of the highlights from the morning sessions.

  • Dr. Saeed Al Dhaheri presented IT Capacity Build Up and Enterprise Architecture Enablement at the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Al Dhaheri shared how enterprise architecture enabled the UAE MOFA to reduce both costs and schedule time by 17%.
  • Peter Haviland’s talk on World Class EA 2012 highlighted the importance of change management in transformation.
  • Daniel Spar kicked off the Business and Innovation track with an interactive workshop on framing and constructing architectural artifacts to enable business innovation.

Lunch was enjoyed overlooking the Mediterranean while the team reviewed the afternoon session schedule, which included:

  • Suresh Done presenting Agile Enterprise Architecture Methodology with insight into balancing developing a Baseline Architecture vs. the Radical approach

We have also been actively tweeting throughout the sessions – check the @systemsflow stream from us and other conference participants!

Mark your calendars – tomorrow (Day 3), Jim Hosey presents as part of the “Architecture Methods and Techniques” track. Jim will be delivering our approaches to assessing architectural significance of projects, including different tools and techniques we use successfully in our IT architecture work every day.

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John Driscoll

John Driscoll

is a Senior Consultant with Systems Flow, Inc. Over his 12-year career in the Information Technology field, John has consulted for numerous clients as a Technical Consultant for Hewlett-Packard, and also in both financial and other industries in the U.S.and abroad. John has an MBA with an emphasis in Information Technology from Northern Arizona University, and and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rhode Island.


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