Improvement Assess, guide & improve your IT

E2 Partners

2 Improve 2 Manage 2 Build

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3 units

Assess, guide & improve your IT

What

Things we can do in an improvement track?

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What?

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Business Architecture

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Different disciplines

What?

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Things we can do in an improvement track

Enterprise Architecture Business Architecture Solution Architecture

Increase IT delivery capacity by tuning IT processes

Rationalisation of your IT landscape

Consolidation of IT assets

Standardize the integration between your IT systems

Guide your Service Oriented Architecture venture

Optimize business processes

Define the business capabilities

Design & improve operating models

Translate strategic objectives into future proof IT assets

Relieve technical debt

Optimize IT organisation/development street

Why

What’s in it for you?

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improve your business processes and IT landscape to get you further.

Why?

Get rid of your “IT is slow” reputation

Improve product & services Go To Market speed

Reduce cost in processes, people and systems

Enable new business opportunities by technology advances

Go further than “IT as a support organisation”

Increase IT visibility & transparency, become more predictable

Absorb the internet paradigm in the whole organisation

Become a process oriented organisation

Realistic integration & alignment during an acquisition

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Things we can do for you

How

Standards, frameworks, tools & techniques

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How?

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Standards, frameworks, tools & techniques

Approach

Working together

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Approach

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Working from different angles

Top down

Bottom up

Approach

Envisioning

Determine “As Is”

situation

Define the “To Be” target

Improve

Overall approach for an improvement track

Approach

• Define the goal

• Define the priorities

• Stakeholder map

• Architecture Vision

• Define the (architecture) principles

• Communication approach

• Capability assessment

• Risk assessment

• Key business drivers

• Interview plan

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Envisioning of an improvement track

Envisioning

Approach

• Focus on People, Processes & Tools

• On 4 areas

– Business architecture (*)

– Information Architecture

– Application Architecture

– Technology Architecture

• Methodologies

• Health states

• Maturity levels

• Tuned for respective stakeholder audience

(*) IT itself is also considered a business unit

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Determine the “As Is“ situation

Determine “As Is”

situation

Approach

• Improvement on KPI’s

• Solution design

• Changed & new business processes

• Rationalized IT landscape

• Master data approach

• Methodology approach

• Application architecture styles

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Define the “To Be” target

Define the

“To Be”

target

Approach

• Define roadmap based on

– Concrete actions

– Prioritized

– Budget and/or Level of effort

– Aligned with business strategy

• Phasing & milestones

• Implementation plan

• Low hanging fruit, fundamental changes, continuous improvement

• Project management

• Change management

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Strategy of the improvement

Improve

Format

End 2 end projects

Together with 2 Build, 2 Manage

Cronos partners

Consultancy

Full time, part time, fixed schedule

Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly basis

Specific time boxed audits

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We can work accordingly

Timing example

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Examples of timing & phases

Envisioning As Is To Be Improve

1- 2 weeks 3-5 weeks 2- 4 weeks ... weeks/months

Roadmap One or more iterations of change

• Example times can be a fraction or multitude based on the depth and breadth

• Agreed deliverables after every phase

• Exit points after every phase

• Improvement phase consist of small iterations of “continuous improvement”

• Mutual agreement on resources required (e.g. PM, EA, specific analysts, ...)

• Important to make key people available

THANK YOU

Questions?

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