Our host and sponsor, Thrivent Financial, welcomes Jake Laabs, Consulting Business Architect for Thrivent. Jake will lead the community in a presentation based on observation and subsequent community discussion on the traits of a successful business architect. We will allow plenty of time for discussion, and as always, meeting artifacts and notes will be posted to our TCBAF web page. Download Presentation Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VOivhP5zsk
Don’t Let Culture Eat YOUR lunch! A new approach for Business Architects to deal with organizational culture and context Every change initiative is affected by the larger structural and cultural context in which it takes place. In fact, context often has more influence over an initiative’s success than the actual design and implementation work itself. Business and enterprise architects continue to be frustrated with their organization’s resistance to change, collaboration, and strategic thinking but have had few tools and techniques to understand how to overcome these barriers. This session will introduce a new approach to identify the influencing contextual factors and assessing their impact on a given initiative. The model will help architects understand which contextual elements to leverage, which to ignore, and which must be actively worked to drive…
Business Architecture: The Cost of Capabilities Please join us on Tuesday, May 21 for our next Twin Cities Business Architecture Forum meeting, hosted by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. A sponsor member of TCBAF since our beginnings, Thrivent Financial is looking forward to sharing their story of how they have shared success and intersected work between finance and business architecture. Mike Yates (Director of IT Business Management) and Jenny Lee (Senior Business Architect) will discuss the high level case and methodology to understand "Cost of Capabilities" (via an "IT Transparency" effort) within one of Thrivent's business areas. They will discuss their approach, and how they presented the information to the business area to help them fully understand and make decisions on "run-the-business" costs in coordination with future strategic investments. Agenda Networking…
