Doing Enterprise-Architecture

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than four decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including small-business, banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in whole-enterprise architectures for non-profit, social, government and commercial enterprises.Slade Beard is an ICT Architect and Program Manager with extensive experience in the design and implementation of ICT infrastructure environments, including integration with large construction projects. He has knowledge and experience in major IT infrastructure rollouts in the Defence,National Security, Emergency Services, Health and Secure Systems Environments. He has proven experience in supporting the effective design, implementation and commissioning of complex ICT systems in high-risk environments where considerations such as avoiding disruption of existing operations is crucial to project success. In addition, as a result of his extensive construction design and build experience, he can frame and articulate the integration of complex ICT systems within the services elements of facility build considerations and act as an effective advocate for ICT requirements within construction teams.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The quest for effectiveness.- Chapter 2: Foundations: Making sense of change.- Chapter 3: Foundations: The art and science  of change.- Chapter 4: Foundations: The patterns of change.- Chapter 5: Foundations: The layers of change.- Chapter 6: Foundations: The cycles of change.- Chapter 7: Foundations: The practice of change.- Chapter 8: Step 1: Identify the enterprise.- Chapter 9: Step 2: Get ready for action.- Chapter 10: Step 3: Set out the stall.- Chapter 11: Step 4: Interact with the market.- Chapter 12: Step 5: Interact with the enterprise.- Chapter 13: Engaging others in the architecture.- Chapter 14: Wrapping up.- Appendix A: Glossary.- Appendix B: Sources and Resources.