alfabet IT Leadership Forum: Atlanta
MASTER THE COMPLEXITY OF YOUR IT LANDSCAPE, ALIGN IT TO BUSINESS GOALS AND AVOID PROJECT FAILURES
Tuesday December 13th, 2011
W Hotel - Buckhead
Atlanta, GA
1:00-5:00 p.m.
Followed by Networking Dinner (Optional)
Map and Directions
Most enterprises struggle to understand the complexity of their own IT landscape – how the myriad of applications and systems interrelate and support the business. And it is getting worse: mergers and acquisitions, distributed landscapes with clouds and outsourced solutions, as well as increasing external regulations accelerate the change. Enterprises are forced to settle for an incomplete, out-of-date picture of the IT landscape with which to plan its evolution. Or are they?
Why YOU should attend:
This free half-day event will highlight how alfabet – a recognized leader in Enterprise Architecture Management [1] AND IT Portfolio Analysis [2] - provides a comprehensive, real-time understanding of the entire current as well as future IT landscape, including business and financial perspectives.
The invitation-only event will be attended by some of the world’s leading organizations - including many Fortune 500 companies – who will discuss how enterprises can gain the insight they need to make and execute the best strategic decisions that ensure IT powers business success.
Featured Speakers:
Brian Kunzie
Senior Vice President; Strategy, Architecture and Risk
Bank of America
Gain the real-world insight of a senior IT executive at one of the world's most prominent financial services organizations. Brian Kunzie will offer interesting perspectives on Enterprise Architecture, IT Planning and Governance, Compliance and Risk.
Tim Westbrock
Managing Director
EAdirections
"Expanding Enterprise Architecture into the Business"
The ultimate promise of Enterprise Architecture has always been the alignment of business and IT strategies, activities, assets and direction. In order for EA to bridge the gap between the desired business future state and the work that must be done to achieve that future state, EA must evolve to include a business architecture sponsored by business leadership and developed by business professionals.
EAdirections will facilitate a discussion on the many facets of business-enabled EA, while also adding their experiences relating to the challenges of approaching the business, how EA and ITA work together, the goals, organization and outputs of a business enabled EA approach and how to get started.