In this session, we will be talking to Regine and John at Auckland Transport about how EA is having an impact on the organization. Specifically, we talk about How the team breaks down the organization into 8 domains How the team collaborates to understand the goals and outcomes of the business and aligning transformation to meet those goals How to avoid EA being seen as the “Standards Police” and move that reputation to that of a collaborator and enabler to digital transformation The development...
Jun 16, 2021•35 min
In this episode we speak to Angel Alonso, Team Lead for the GRC practice at Mnemonic and Nick Reed, Chief Strategy Officer for BiZZdesign. We talk about Enterprise Architectures Role within Cybersecurity for the Enterprise and how it is ideally placed to help enterprises assess and mitigate the technology risks that it faces. The Enterprise Security Architecture report referenced in this podcast can be accessed at https://www.mnemonic.no/mesa...
Jun 01, 2021•27 min
In this episode, we will be speaking to Martijn van Glabbeek from Alliander and Joe Geary from BiZZdesign. We will be talking about how business capability maps can be developed and then used in the enterprise to create a "Rosetta" sone for IT and the Business to communicate better and identify investment and risk priorities.
Apr 29, 2021•31 min
In this episode, we are joined by Milan Guenther, Co-Author of Enterprise Design Patterns and President at Intersection Group, and Marc Lankhorst, Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign. We discuss the emerging trend of increasingly blurred organizational boundaries between supply chain, partners and the customers, and the overall enterprise ecosystem - and how this necessitates a much more thorough and proactive process of enterprise design and ecosystem modeling.
Mar 25, 2021•37 min
In this episode, we interview Chris Dalby, Continuous Improvement Lead at MS Amlin. Chris has deep and rich tenure in the areas of Operational Excellence and regulatory compliance in the financial services space. In this podcast, Chris talks us through how his group is leveraging the power of Enterprise Architecture to develop the process and tools needed to satisfy the regulatory requirements MS Amlin is required to comply to.
Feb 24, 2021•20 min
In this episode, we speak to Sian Van Es, Senior Enterprise Architect at CGI. CGI is one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. Sian tells us of her insights in not only working internally with CGI - but with CGIs clients as will. Sian also gives some fascinating insight and tops tips for how EA can successfully operate in an agile environment.
Jan 26, 2021•21 min
In this episode, we speak to Ian Anderson at Ellucian. Ian has deep experience in Enterprise Architecture in the Higher Education space and begins by drawing the parallels between Higher Ed and Enterprises - noting that both are businesses and in that respect very similar in how they operate - the only difference being that Higher Ed talks about Faculty, Students and Courses - whereas enterprises talk about staff, customers and products. We hope you enjoy the interview.
Oct 13, 2020•29 min
In this podcast, we speak to Cameron Spence at Thames Water. Cameron speaks about a range of issues, from implementing an application management system at Thames Water to the need for EAs to be able to translate all the different languages in the business to how to crystalize the value of EA to the non-EA executive in the organization.
Sep 24, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In this interview we speak to Marc Lankhorst, Marc is Chief Technology Evangelist at BiZZdesign. In this role he works with EA teams all over the world. In this interview, Marc talks about how EA teams can position themselves with the C-Suite - and how to talk about what they do in a manner that resonates and demonstrates value to the Non EA Business Executives
Sep 03, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 9
In this episode, I speak to Joe Geary, VP of Customer Success at BiZZdesign. Joe has over 30 years of experience as a true IT and EA practitioner. Today his focus is working with EA teams, large and small, mature and just starting, in a range of industries - helping them identify how to drive value, early and often, to their organizations.
Jul 30, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this episode we will be talking to Jeremy Viner from the Royal Bank of Scotland, Jeremy takes us through a journey of change at the bank, retiring legacy systems and replacing with new standards, process and tools to increase the impact of EA at the bank. But we don't just talk software, instead Jeremy talks us through the change process he undertook within the context of the Kotter change model.
Jul 09, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In this podcast, we speak to Nick Chodarow, CIO at Arctic Glacier. Arctic Glacier is North America's leading manufacturer and direct-to-store distributor (DSD) of premium quality packaged ice, ice equipment, and related services. We talk about how the COVID 19 pandemic has effected Arctic Glacier and how they looked at the right technologies to support the new remote working norm, how they assessed the stability of their vendors and tested their resiliency programs, and how Arctic Glacier plan t...
Jun 16, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Alko is the national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly in Finland. It is the only store in the country which retails beer over 5.5% ABV, wine, and spirits. In this episode, we speak to AJ Kangas about how the pandemic affected its retail operations in Finland.
Jun 02, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this podcast we speak to Claus Jensen, Enterprise Architect at Novozymes. Novozymes is a global biotechnology company headquartered in Denmark and focuses on the research, development, and production of industrial enzymes, microorganisms, and biopharmaceutical ingredients. We begin talking about how the COVID 19 pandemic has effected Novozymes and what the EA team we asked to do … then Claus goes into more detail about his vision for the “new normal” when for employees and consumers.
May 12, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this podcast, I speak to Kishore Koduri, Director of EA and Resiliency at Ameren. Ameren is a Fortune 500 American power company serving Illinois and Missouri. Kishore talks about how Ameren's resiliency plans were activated and pressure tested in the face of the pandemic. He goes on to talk about how the role of EA will change as a result of these difficult times. If you would like to be featured on the show - contact us at podcast@bizzdesign.com
Apr 30, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this podcast, I speak to Kunal Das, Chief Architect at SouthState bank. Specifically, we discuss the bank's response to the COVID 19 pandemic and Kunals views on how he sees this event transforming how we go to work and how customers interact with the bank going forward. If you would like to be featured on the show - contact us at podcast@bizzdesign.com
Apr 16, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In this episode, we will be speaking to Kirk Keller, Director of Enterprise Strategy and Architecture at the University of Missouri and how the Coronavirus pandemic has affected and accelerated the universities' digital transformation. About the podcast: In these podcasts each week will be talking to leaders in the area of enterprise architecture and specifically Talking about how EAs teams can and do deliver value outcomes to their organizations in order to align execution to strategy, optimize...
Apr 02, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 1
