7 keynotes by the doers who are bitten by passion and have weakness for results, can u miss it?

This year Architecture World summit will feature 6 keynotes and the valedictory. We are always looking for doers and not the talkers with big schemes. One of the main criteria of selection of keynote speakers is the “practicality” and “influence” of their work. This makes the entire exercise of finding such people daunting tasks. . This year, if you look the diversity, experience and the influence these speakers bring to the table, it will amaze one and all.  The keynote speaker line up include

• An Hon. Deputy Chief Minister & a Finance Minister who has become synonym with achieving results which other feel impossible and unthinkable
• Inventor of Enterprise Architecture, interestingly 70% of respondents of a recent poll by Gartner concurred that EA is critical
• Guru who coined the term “ BPM”, Business Process Management
• Director – IT of one of the major Telecom operator in India whose parent organization is a giant in Russia
• An IPS and IG Police who twice won “President’s Medal” for bravery and who served as IGP for Internal Security, Karnataka last year
• Chief Architect of a Oilfield services company and
• A practising architect, entrepreneur, aerospace engineer and CEO of one of the largest Architecture Services company (did I say, it’s “meeee”

First, in my list is the valedictory presentation by Mr. Sushil Kumar Modi, Hon. Dy Chief Minister of Bihar  on “Re-architecting the enterprise – Bihar Under Transformation . Ask this science graduate about the art of making a good budget that safeguards the interest of all stakeholders and pat comes the reply: You require a little bit of common sense and a lot of sincerity.

The most under-governed and underdeveloped state of the country (India), for the first time after Independence, is working out new development architecture. There are growth strategies, new ownership models, emphasis on industrialization, and adoption of new technologies in healthcare, agriculture and most importantly the participation of the millions of stakeholders in this re-architecting initiative.

You will agree that the grammar of governance is changing in Bihar. Let’s ask him, how did he calculate the ROI?

Introducing the living legend – John Zachman, the inventor of “Enterprise Architecture” discipline. The emerging discipline, which is revolutionizing the way we think “enterprise”. And as he quips “up until now, Enterprises have simply happened… somehow”. It would take another hundred years to have ENTERPRISES which are well architect.

Guess! what you would have asked if you would have met Sir Isaac Newton? Can you tell us what the application of your formula? There are good chances that he won’t have dreamt about application of his formulas, what was coming such as aircraft, satellites, mobile phones, etc.in 1600 century?

The key to complexity and change is ARCHITECTURE. And you won’t be surprised as you start your architecture journey why does “ Zachman Framework™” is the basis for Architecture. Also, if you know Zachman Framework, it’s easy for you to understand other 34 frameworks. Of course, reverse is not true.  

In fact, nearly 70% of respondents in a recent Gartner poll said that their primary focus for Enterprise Architecture during 2011 and 2012 will be on aligning with business, delivering business value or transforming the business. So, come meet this living legend whose honest work and a great vision is taking world by storm.

Be on time on 27^th morning for the inaugural keynote by John Zachman. BTW, don’t be surprised if you see an old fashioned OHP (Overhead Projector) in the conference hall.
Third in my list is Steve Towers who is the founder of the Business Process Group (www.bpgroup.org) a global business club (originally formed 1992) exchanging ideas and best practice in Business Performance Management, Transformation and Process Improvement.

Drawing on 2010-11 BP Group & iCMG industry surveys, Steve will  share with you the key global EA & BPM trends and industry evolutions from the last 12 months and the year ahead.

1. Key evolutions in the BPM EA corporate agenda: What are the market trends for programme development?
2. Emerging Next Practice, Techniques, Tips and Methodologies
3. How has the industry moved on: Onsite polling around your top investment and development areas for the next twelve months
4. Making a new resolution: Looking forward to the ‘must dos’ for the next 12 months
5. Outside-In: The Secret of the 21^st centuries leading companies – who are they and what are they doing?

Manoj Shrivastava who is Director – IT in MTS Telecom in India will discuss about what it takes to be “Innovative”? Most of the time, he has observed the confusion amongst managers and executives in the corporate world when differentiating invention and innovation. This key note address will first try to highlight the differences between the two terms and then move on the different types of innovations. Manoj will cover the ingredients which make an innovation succeed, and the organization culture required to build a successful innovation factory.

The second part of the talk will address on how the innovation principles can be applied by IT and Enterprise Architects to make innovation a way of life when making architecture decisions. Towards the end of the presentation, the speaker will try to cover the benefits the business can gain from IT architects who are innovators. This is the fourth keynote in my list.

The fifth keyote presentation is by Mr. Amar Kumar Pandey, IPS, IG Police who will share a case study about utilization of EA principles in Police Management.  In this presentation, he will discuss how a complex case was resolved by utilizing multiple views of Karnataka police service in southern range including the various policing processes, organizational structure, functional processes and information requirements as well the underlying technology infrastructure.

As the strategy takes an information led approach (instead of gut feeling) for realization of its goals, there is need to define the conceptual model for describing the organization’s operation. Defining an accurate and consistent representation for each of the above views is critical for solving the case in a short time frame (one week?).

As he says, “For me, Enterprise Architecture provides a formal structure and process by which the vision is conceived, planned, executed and monitored”.  While using the EA principles, how did he use his time tested practices such as short implementation cycles, high-bandwidth communication and continuous dialogues  between the various stakeholders and aggressive testing approaches were key in delivering the result on time.

The sixth keynote is by Jim Heaton  who is Vice President, Infrastructure & Operations Services as well as Chief Architect of IT, CITO/Baker Hughes. He will discuss about how to fast track creating an Enterprise Architecture Group. One of the key element in such effort is to Drive immediate BUSINESS value. Some of the challenges related to seed a team, mentoring, how to create rapid value, how to create pull (not push) demand, generate external recognition .

Let me also briefly describe my keynote presentation “How do you transform a Business Strategy to an IT implementation artifact?”. In a simpler way, if an organization wants to grow its revenue by say 10%, what’s impact on business service, underlying processes, roles and responsibilities, distribution across the departments, systems and applications, software components, IT infrastructure etc.

This question sounds simple but has a very complex underlying mappings, connections and transformations need with thousands of break points. The magnitude of problem could be understood by the fact that companies around the world are failing to align their business goals and IT investments. Efforts to align once in a year, is meeting with failure. Imagine if this alignment has to happen every 30 days?.

In order to realize the existing gap and the transformation efforts, we need to understand the various stakeholders, types of models, categories, connections and dependencies among these models which form the basis of any enterprise definition. In the beginning, one might feel the absence of relationship between a business objective and an IT implementation artifact. However, as we traverse the journey of transformation from strategy to business, business to systems, systems to technology, technology to implementation, etc., it brings out a very clear and obvious dependency across them.

Hope these 7 keynotes provide insight to the world of “doers” who are getting the work done, need not be very aligned to a specific school of thought or idea. But, what is common is the “experience” on the ground that they acquire and their inclination to make it a way of living and not something that they do just from 9 to 6.
As the dates for the summit is nearing, it also brings some changes in the agenda. Anyways, we are gearing with our best and I look forward to see you and meet you in person on 27July.

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