Emerging Roles in a Digital Operating Mode - Rob Akershoek
Channel: The Open Group
Date: 2021-05-12

Rob Akershoek, IT Management Architect, Fruition Partners. Rob is senior IT Management architect at DXC and Co-Chair of the IT4IT™ Forum within The Open Group. 
Assisting IT organizations to transform to become a lean and agile service provider, ready to manage the new digital ecosystem consisting of a hybrid cloud and multi-vendor sourcing landscape. 
He is architecting the new IT organization combining standards, practices, and concepts such as IT4IT, TOGAF, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Security Management with established IT service management methodologies (such as ITIL). 

This presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of most important roles you need in your digital journey. The roles are positioned against the IT4IT™ reference architecture as well as the digital value streams associated with digital product delivery.



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Topics include: 
- Digital Enterprise Transformation 
- How Digital Standards can be best used together to accelerate the adoption of Digital practices across an organization 
- Architect's Toolkit — the right tool for the right job. Tools by architects for architects. https://www.opengroup.org/ArchitectsToolkit 
- Synergy between standards: the TOGAF® Standard and Open Agile Architecture™ Standard 
- Digital Practitioners Body of Knowledge™ for managing key issues and skills needed at each stage of the digital journey https://www.opengroup.org/certifications/dpbok 
- IT4IT™ Reference Architecture helps organizations manage their digital product portfolio https://www.opengroup.org/it4it-forum 
- Saving the Environment with Open Footprint Data Model https://www.opengroup.org/openfootprint-forum 
- Open FAIR™ Body of Knowledge and Quantitative Risk Analysis https://www.opengroup.org/certifications/openfair 
- Zero Trust Architecture 

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