Enterprise Architects: The New Champions of IT During Tough Times
Channel: The Open Group
Date: 2020-07-28

Hylton Southey is Managing Director of the U.S. at LeanIX. Southey leads a growing in-market team, supporting LeanIX’s rapid expansion in the region and fueling long-term strategic growth for the company. Southey has nearly 20 years of experience leading high-growth technology sales organizations and operations teams. Prior to LeanIX, he spent 10 years at Mimecast, where he served as Vice President of Business Development and VP of North American Sales.


How digital complexity drives the need for enterprise architecture
The impact of COVID-19 on enterprise architecture
Four pillars for EAs addressing the new remote workforce
Rising TOGAF Certifications = Growth of EAs
Enterprise architects elevated as the Champions of IT
Organizations realize the need to accelerate collaboration and transparency between IT and the business

4 Pillars of EAs and the Remote Workforce:


      Enhanced Employee Experience
      Lower Complexity, Cost
      Assess Public Cloud Efficiency
      Adopt Business Model Transformation


Pillar 1: Employee Experience
        Improve the employee experience
        Simulate the employee office workspace with tools and services they were accustomed
        to do their job
        Need more software on their computers to do their jobs
        Requires the self-service model to avoid being overwhelmed
        Empower employees to determine their needs more easily with transparency


Pillar 2: Lower Complexity, Reduce Cost
       Simplify the complexity, reduce the cost
       Pandemic requires businesses to rethink their IT budgets, reduce costs
        CIOs holding back on discretionary, non-essential costs
        Revenue declines force companies to layoff workers

       Tools to help rationalize applications and services enabled EAs to see where they can
       save and help the decision makers reduce overall IT cost



Pillar 3: How Efficient is Your Use of the Cloud?
        Cloud governance helps determine the efficiency for using the public cloud
             Cloud governance enables EAs to reduce their cloud spend by up to 30%
             Understand the cloud architecture and optimize costs
      EAs can openly see cloud projects and initiatives, helping organizations assess which
      applications can move from an on-premise to cloud environment



Pillar 4: Business Transformation Management to Future-Proof Your Business Architecture
        Needs identification
         Scenario Planing
          Roadmapping 

          Visualization and tracking


Drive the evolution
      Enhance the employee remote work experience
      Provide tools for self-service, collaboration, automation, and transparency
      Simplify the complexity and reduce costs
      Use data to align IT and business for strategic planning 
      Implement cloud governance to help determine public cloud cost efficiencies
      Future-proof your EA by managing your business transformation