Last week QPR sponsored IRM UK EA/BPM conference that took
place on 16-18 of June 2014 in London. QPR’s UK reseller Performance Analytics
joined QPR in the event to promote QPR’s comprehensive and innovative enterprise
architecture (EA) offering. The event brought together both EA and BPM experts
from several countries and provided a venue for excellent discussions and
presentations.
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| QPR team in full action at the stand |
A clear theme in the EA area was that EA should focus on
delivering concrete business outcomes and provide value to the key stakeholders
of an organization. This theme was strongly emphasized in the event key note
speech “Who Cares?: Getting a Grip on your Stakeholders’ Needs and
Expectations” presented by Roger Burlton from BPTrends Associates. Burlton
highlighted that the starting point for EA and BPM efforts should be to look at
the needs of the main stakeholders’ of the organization – such as customers,
owners etc. – and focus the efforts on delivering value to them. Burlton also
emphasized the importance of performance measurement as part of EA work to
demonstrate the results to the management and highlight the results with visually
appealing dashboards and reports. Other dominating EA topics in the event were
the significant role of EA in business transformation and strategy execution,
as well as business architecture, which had its own track in the conference
agenda.
As usual, the discussions at the expo floor proved to be very interesting and QPR’s comprehensive and innovative EA offering created a lot of interest. Notably, the QPR business driven approach to EA received a lot of interest among EA and BPM practitioners. This was a really positive sign, as typically the ideas of the methodology gurus presented in conferences are ahead of the actual, real-life practices in organizations. But this year’s IRM UK event indicates that the gap between business outcome driven EA and traditional IT oriented EA is narrowing, as practitioners also seem to be keen to adopt this new approach. Or is there still a clear gap? Thoughts?
Tero Aspinen
Director, Partner
Management
Good wishes for all team.
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