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My name is Craig Martin, and
I'm the chief architect and
COO of a multinational
organisation called Enterprise
Architects.
Now, this subject isn't about
the architecture of buildings.
We borrowed that term to
specifically talk about how we
architect a business.
Imagine you're a small business
owner or part of an
executive team within
an organisation.
You're currently faced with
a number of challenges.
And those challenges vary from
you're currently losing market
share, you've got a product
mix that's losing revenue,
you've got some operational
processes that are extremely
inefficient across your
organisation.
Not only that, you've kicked
off a number of projects
across your organisation to be
able to deal with some of
these challenges.
And you're not really sure
whether those are the right
projects and if you're investing
in the right places
to take advantage of some
of these challenges.
So what I want to introduce
you to in the subject is a
framework called TOGAF, which
stands for The Open Group
Architecture Framework.
And this is really a standard on
how to help you define the
current state of your
organisation-- of all of your
challenges and projects and
activities that are occurring.
Begin to design the future
state of your business--
what it could look like--
and then help you design a
migration plan to be able to
achieve that future state.
I'm going to take you through
four modules, and really look
at just an introduction into the
discipline, and introduce
you to some of the basic
concepts that TOGAF gives you,
to give you an understanding
of how pieces of your
organisation fit together.
I'm then going to look at a
technique at how we actually
design the business.
How we assemble the structures
of the organisation so we can
take advantage of some of the
challenges that are sitting
within the marketplace.
That's more a technique for
how to the architecture
We then get a look at how we are
actually going to migrate
the business.
In other words, how we're going
to take some of these
designs and these concepts and
get the business to change,
put plans in place, and
govern those changes.
So that the organisation does
actually change and it's not
just plans on paper.
And in the final module, we're
going to look at the
capability of architecture.
In other words, how
do you as an
individual become an architect?
What's your career path?
What skills do you
need to focus on?
But then also how you fit into
an organisational team.
So enrol now and become
part of the Enterprise
Architecture community.
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