CAEAP Executive Leadership
Introduces
Leadership in the Enterprise Architecture Profession
Developing Executive-Level Leadership for the Enterprise Architecture Community
A unique program exclusively offered by CAEAP
The goal of enterprise architecture is to design and implement the structures that link a company’s strategy with its execution. This vital link captures the corporate strategy as blueprints that include enough guidance and detail for the various parts of the organization to execute while allowing sufficient innovation for groups to be competitive. Specialized practices are used to determine where the company is today, scenarios for where it will be tomorrow, and the roadmaps that lead from one stage in the journey to the next.
Introduction:
Leadership in the Enterprise Architecture Profession (LEAP) is an exclusive opportunity designed for chief enterprise architects who wish to operate at the executive level and maximize overall performance of their business. Participants will enhance their ability to plan and execute sound investments and minimize business risk, while coordinating strategies and structures for better business results.
Enterprise architects provide the critical structures that enable transformation of strategy to execution. It could be an impending merger, new business capability, new operational model, or strategic initiative. This requires a level of executive maturity that goes beyond functional excellence. How do executives lead a strategy of improving business results by formalising the enterprise’s architecture, driving structural innovations and overseeing investments in change?
LEAP addresses a significant gap in the industry today by equipping leaders with the tools and training to do this:
· Combining existing operations with new investments, in a structure that best fulfills the enterprise’s obligations to its stakeholders
· Creating and maintains structures, themes and spaces for stakeholders to deliver value both for the enterprise and themselves
· Conceiving of, investing in and exploiting structural innovations
· Evaluating the structural and investment impacts of market and strategy scenarios, and using this knowledge to formulate and execute business plans
Program Objectives:
The LEAP program is a leading-edge development opportunity designed for executives who are challenged to optimize the performance and success of their organization. It covers all aspects of enterprise architecture—from strategy and structure issues to those surrounding external alliances and partnerships. This program will help you better design, plan, and implement strategies and structures that delivery better business results.
Program Benefits:
LEAP is the answer to a critical need in the marketplace and fills a career path gap for executives. LEAP is professional development program targeted at senior level experts who need to develop the skills required to lead large transformation efforts. This unique professional development program consists of multiple sessions where members of the program work with leaders in the enterprise architecture community. Join this program if you aspire to:
· Grow the Enterprise Architecture capability of your organization
· Attain a better grasp on how to handle Enterprise Architecture challenges at the executive level
· Increase competitive positioning in being hired as a professional Chief Enterprise Architect
· Presenting a career milestone to management that you are ready for more responsibility
Each participant will understand the ways that strong enterprise architecture adds value to the organization. Participants will also come away with answers on how to:
· Create an effective enterprise architecture capability to drive higher value
· Formalize a common enterprise architecture vision between lines of business
· Gain insight into far-reaching economic, business and technological changes that are transforming inter-business relationships
· Define and design completive enterprise strategies and architecture
· Create processes for the management and governance of business strategy
· Understand the value and execution of enterprise portfolio management
· Implement key disciplines of enterprise-level decision making and planning
· Ensure enterprise leaders experience the true value of enterprise architecture
Program Content:
LEAP is a complementary program to other executive training and certification programs found in the industry and combines top faculty leaders to deliver proven compelling content for the curriculum:
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Instruction |
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Developing the vision
· Aligning with the business mission
· Defining the future
· Roadmapping transformation
· Capturing the current
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Strategy. The EA practice develops and executes an EA strategy. The EA strategy communicates a planned pattern of behavior in pursuit of a desired enterprise outcome – the development, documentation, use and evolution of an EA. The EA strategy describes the vision, principles, desired outcome, and roadmap for developing, documenting, maintaining, and using the EA. |
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Architectural Frameworks
· What is an enterprise architecture framework
· The basics of frameworks
· How to utilize and develop with a framework
· The four cognitive levels in any architectural framework
· Comparison/classification of different frameworks including SWOT
· Major framework descriptions and analysis
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Enterprise Models. The EA practice produces models and other artefacts to describe and represent the enterprise and its components. The EA practice creates this architectural content with a view to its subsequent use, and ensures the content is fit for its intended purpose. Enterprise Alignment. The EA practice develops transition and sequencing plans based on the as-is and to-be architectures. Horizon maps, value chains, marketing plans, product/service plans and technology plans may be used to communicate alignment with enterprise goals and objectives. |
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Marketing enterprise architecture
· Finding and understanding your customer
· Transforming value into services
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Measures. The EA practice establishes and executes a performance management/ metrics program to measure its success. The EA practice measures the contribution of EA to business drivers. |
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Governance
· policies/processes/procedures,
· both heavyweight & lightweight,
· federated/centralized implications
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Role in Enterprise Governance. EA artefacts and approaches inform those processes and structures implemented to direct, manage, and monitor the enterprise’s activities in pursuit of its objectives. |
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Financial budgeting
· Managing a multi-year initiative.
· Vendor Costing
· Multi-year budgeting
· Multi-attribute allocation
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Investment Participation. The EA practice performs architecture analyses to identify cost-benefits, performance issues & technology risk. Enterprise architects understand depreciation, replacement costs, return on assets, asset valuation, and opportunity costs. |
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Leadership and Management
· Changing the culture not just behavior
· Leadership styles
· Emotional Quotient
· Communication
· Problem solving approaches
· Persuasion & power
· Influence, motivation, mentor
· Sitting back while taking the lead
· Trust is earned not yearned
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Leadership. Senior executives support, promote, and apply EA as a method to manage the business and changes in that business. The EA practice influences, and is influenced by, the enterprise’s business and investment planning processes. The enterprise architect is involved in strategic planning, capital planning, and portfolio management. These enterprise planning processes influence the content of the EA and the behavior of enterprise. The EA documentation describes how everyone in the organization is involved in or impacted by the enterprise’s business processes. Architectural plans, current state, future state, and roadmaps are linked to desired business outcomes. |
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Defining and building an enterprise architecture capability
· Cross-functional, domain-driven, or functional teams
· Establishing objectives
· Measuring value and worth
· Recruiting the team and the support
· Planning and developing a program
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Social Capital and Communication
· What are connections really worth
· How to measure interactions
· Sharing and developing trust
· Developing Communities of Practice
· How far a message really travels
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Project, Portfolio and Program Management
· Managing the processes
· Measuring risk
· Planning and Prioritization
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Learning. The EA practice embraces continuous learning and knowledge acquisition. All EA practice staff and stakeholders are trained on EA concepts and policies. EA practice staff receives training on the enterprise’s EA processes, procedures, and methods. Enterprise architects commit to a program of continuing education that addresses EA professional practices. |
Roundtable Issue Sessions:
Each session features a roundtable discussion where participants can bring their own workplace challenges to the forum for open discussion and solutions. Past participants have acclaimed this as a “great opportunity to get views from academia, government, and industry on EA in today’s world” and “invaluable to add to the understanding of all that was presented earlier.”
Graduating LEAP:
You will earn a place on the Enterprise Architecture Registry. The Registry provides recognition to an individual who has met the basic educational requirements for the profession – and LEAP fulfills one of those requirements. CAEAP maintains the Registry as a method to:
1) Provides non-EA leaders with recognition of architectural understanding, foundational skills, and enterprise leadership capabilities
2) Recognizing executives who have gained an understanding of the profession
3) Accredit enterprise architects and those on the path to becoming a registered enterprise architect
Who Should Attend?
LEAP is an executive level professional development program designed for executives who wish to succeed as a Chief Enterprise Architect and beyond.
Facility:
Each instructor has an extensive background in working as enterprise architects, leading enterprise architecture group’s within large organizations, research, consulting, and in educating executives. Each brings to the classroom best-practice tools and implementation processes for achieving world-class results.
NEED A QUOTE: “This program is very much needed for most companies to establish an effective and continuous connection between strategy and effective initiatives is key to success—and in many cases survival— for most organizations.”
--First Name, Last Name, Title, XYZ Corporation
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