Name: 5 Steps to Optimizing Your IT Estate and Accelerating Modernization
Start: 2024-08-15T16:00:00Z
End: 2024-08-15T16:00:28.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4

Ardoq is a global SaaS company recognized by Gartner as a leading provider of  Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools.

Ardoq is a cloud data platform that goes far beyond standard software, built with powerful graph technology and enhanced by dynamic visualizations. It’s designed to help organizations understand the relationships between people, processes, technology, and data and use this knowledge to reach their goals and strategic objectives.

A platform with almost limitless flexibility, a future-proof solution that will evolve as organizational requirements inevitably change with time. It includes out-of-the-box solutions that enable customers to quickly realize value from their EA practice. 

Join us for a fireside chat with Heidi Mattison, CTO of Cabinetworks Group, and Mark Holt, Director of Technology at Slalom Consulting as they share the journey of transforming a century-old cabinetry business into a modern, efficient, and customer-focused company. 

Cabinetworks, America's largest privately held cabinet manufacturer, faced the challenge of integrating multiple acquisitions whilst streamlining operations across multiple plants, applications and ERP systems.  

Heidi and Mark will discuss how Cabinetworks’ technology strategy enabled Cabinetworks to build a differentiated customer experience in a highly competitive industry. Heidi and Mark will discuss: 

-  Simplifying the IT architecture and turning 400 data points and scattered information into a single source of truth to improve transparency and decision-making.
- Implementing enterprise architecture (EA) from scratch and making it central to Cabinetworks' operations.
-  How Slalom leveraged Ardoq to help Cabinetworks Group accelerate the establishment of Enterprise Architecture best practices and drive business insights.
-  Engaging stakeholders with visual and interactive tools, resulting in faster decision-making and increased efficiency.

This session will provide CIOs, IT & EA leaders with practical insights into using EA for business transformation, improving IT efficiency, and fostering a culture of innovation.

Key Takeaways:
- Strategies for implementing the right technology and enterprise architecture strategy  to drive business goals.
- Techniques for engaging stakeholders and gaining organizational support across the business and C-suite.
- Examples of improving IT efficiency and decision-making.
- Lessons from transforming legacy operations into a cohesive, modern enterprise.

How Cabinetworks' CTO Pioneered a Differentiated Customer Experience & Enhanced IT Efficiency with EA

Understand how Ardoq will differentiate against all the competition in the market, allowing your organization to:

• Connect people, technologies, and applications
• Get quick time to value
• Engage experts
• Integrate
• Build your model
• Get data-driven insights

Discover how New Enterprise Architecture can add value to your change initiative. Get in touch with an Ardoq specialist to learn more, follow the link in the 'Attachments' tab above.

How Ardoq Works

In this insightful video, learn how Ardoq's core principles of automation, collaboration, and data-driven flexibility can revolutionize your onboarding process. Uncover strategies to expedite your journey toward a quick return on investment while preserving the potential for future growth and development.

This Is Ardoq

Danny Attias, Chief Digital & Information Officer at London Business School, topped CIO UK's CIO 100, a list of the most transformational and disruptive CIOs in and from the UK. Learn about his perspectives on:

- purpose-driven leadership in IT
- empowering teams to transform organizations
- aligning business and IT, creating trust with key stakeholders

Building a World-Class Technology Team

Robert Pröber, Manager Technology Strategy & Transformation at Deloitte talks about how he utilized his 16+ years of experience in architecting IT solutions to enable a successful Digital Transformation. In this episode, Robert shares the most common mistakes when connecting Enterprise Architecture to the whole business strategy.

Using Enterprise Architecture to Successfully Align Strategy and Execution

Sanjiv Joseph Chinnappan, Partner and Executive Director at ZS explains how to utilize new trends emerging in architecture and demonstrate the value of your work.

Architecture Achieving Business & IT Alignment

Hear insights on strategy execution with stronger collaboration and quicker response times.

Beyond Cost Savings - Prioritizing Resources to Drive Highest Value

Join us in the second episode of our Deminar as we dive deeper into crucial enterprise architecture challenges.

Key takeaways:
Optimize Operational Efficiency
Ensure Governance & Compliance
Manage Cyber & Technology Risk

Ardoq Live Demo Series: Crucial Enterprise Architecture Challenges

Join experts Mike Faga, Ian Stendera, and Laurie Kelly as they discuss the transformative power of modern architecture in shaping your organization's future. Discover the value it can unlock for your business and gain insights into building a more strategic and innovative architectural approach.

Building a Modern Enterprise Architecture with a Focus on Strategy & Innovation

In this episode, Enrique Fernandez-Pino, a CIO with over 30 years of experience in innovation, strategy development, digital re-design, and large-scale change and program management, shares his insights on: 

- Ways to remove complexity
- Accelerate change
- Boost benefits to the business from the change process

Change Made Simple

Gideon Slifkin, long-time Enterprise Architect, first-time LinkedIn influencer, discusses the state of Enterprise Architecture in the US and around the world, touching on: 

- Why does EA get a bad reputation in some circles?
- What are some deadly mistakes an EA team can make?
- Is EA truly dead, and if it is, who’s to blame

Is Enterprise Architecture Dead?

Gar Mac Críosta, digital advisor to the CIO office at Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE), shares how he and his team successfully ran stakeholder management within one of the world's biggest healthcare systems in pursuit of delivering better health and social services for the people of Ireland. 

On 14 May 2021, HSE was hit with one of the world's most significant cyberattacks. Everything went dark and the entire organization had to rebuild their infrastructure, figuring out what they needed to know, what they actually knew, and what they wished they knew. Gar discussed that journey, what they learned from it and what other organizations should take away from it.

Driving Change In Healthcare Saas

In this episode, Audrey Honeycutt, Enterprise Architect at Nebraska Medicine, talks about how she successfully implemented an EA practice at her organization and her perspectives on:
- Her journey from Programmer to Enterprise Architect
-  Quick Wins when standing up her practice
-  Audrey’s tips for those starting out a practice at their organization

Starting an Enterprise Architecture Practice

Thales Spellacy, Principal Consulting Architect at BNY Mellon, discusses big topics in Enterprise Architecture, including:

- His 30 years of experience as an enterprise architect
- Using capability models to drive strategic transformations
- Driving value awareness from executives
- Imposter syndrome in EA, and a potential rebranding

The Power of Capability Based Planning in Enterprise Architecture

James Duncan, Director of Digital Transformation and Innovation at Sheridan College shared how he capitalized on his 20+ years of experience in IT in order to bring digital transformation to an industry that is historically resistant to change, and earn a seat at the table of many change initiatives. 

Having worked for 20 years in Information Technology at the intersection of people, process, technology and data, James is passionate about the potential of purposeful and transformative change inside the public higher education system. He has spent the past few years developing a greenfield Enterprise Architecture practice at his own institution, as well as collaborating with peers to raise the collective understanding and maturity of EA across the broader sector. James also leads Project Management, Data Governance, and Enterprise Applications functions that collectively drive digital transformation efforts at his organization.

Can EAs Really Drive Change

Roger Stoffers, Enterprise Architect for de Volksbank, independent consultant, and trainer, goes into:
 - how business, technology, data, and people are connected
- the common risks and challenges of digital transformation
- common benefits and goals
- what the "digital transformation" buzzword really means

A Field Guide to Digital Transformation

How does an Enterprise Architect eat an elephant?

The elephant in question here is one of the largest divestiture programmes in Europe. Join ASDA’s Senior Solutions Architecture Manager, Peter Grayley, as he shares how the team are managing the transition and taking it ‘one bite at a time’.

Attendees will learn:
- What the ‘bites’ are for the EA team and for a programme as large as this
- Who is helping with each ‘course’ and the incremental delivery
- What scaling a tech organisation from 300 to 1,000+ people looks like for EA

Join this webinar to understand the impact that modern EA practices can have on their organisation

Who should attend:
CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects, Tech Strategy leaders, and anyone interested in understanding how to align technology and business strategies to drive business success.

ASDA: The Role of EA in Europe's Largest Divestiture

IT complexity is a top challenge in many organizations. More than one application can be doing the same thing, draining resources, causing issues, or not adding any value at all. This increases IT costs, cuts into budgets, and prevents IT from delivering modern services that meet business needs.

Join this webinar and learn the  5 essential steps for mastering application rationalization.

Based on hundreds of projects with CIOs, IT Leaders, Enterprise Architects and Digital Transformation teams in global organizations, we will share practical and proven techniques to help you:

- Get a firm grip on sprawling IT estates
- Run effective application assessments and identify overlap or legacy applications
- Reduce the number of applications and free up resources for driving change and 
  transformation
- Discover how easy and repeatable application rationalization can be.
- Learn how to quickly and efficiently optimize your IT Estate.

Register for the webinar now to make application rationalization simple and repeatable.  Optimizing your IT Estate doesn’t have to be a long and tedious process.

5 Steps to Optimizing Your IT Estate and Accelerating Modernization

Application Rationalization

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