More and more organizations are embracing transformational efforts. This session will discuss how to ensure successful transformation and how you can play a role in that success.
This session will focus on business capabilities and their role and position in the larger business architecture framework. It will explain how capabilities can be used as building blocks to achieve the outcomes an organization strives to define and execute and demonstrate how capabilities use and modify information with an example drawn from ongoing work to transform Minnesota’s human service delivery systems.
About the Series:
This series will explore the core business architecture domains that DHS is leveraging to integrate service delivery and develop an enterprise portfolio of products. The series will be especially helpful to the public sector and others whose product is a service, rather than a tangible item for purchase.
As the name 201 suggests, those with some background in business architecture or enterprise architecture may find the series more informative.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Katherine (Kit) Shelton from the Department of Human Services (DHS) for the State of Minnesota is applying business architecture to help DHS transform service delivery by coordinating distributed work to integrate services and transition to a product operating model. She and two other Enterprise Business Architects in the Agency Effectiveness Administration lead a cross-functional team of business experts from all over the department to apply shared principles and common standards across business units to integrate multiple perspectives into a single enterprise-wide business framework.
This session will focus on value streams and demonstrate their role and position in the larger business architecture framework. The presenter will illustrate the conceptual structure of an architectural value stream with a real-life example drawn from work to transform Minnesota’s human service delivery system. Learn the relationship between an organization’s value propositions and the experience of the people who seek value from the organization.
About the Series:
This series will explore the core business architecture domains that DHS is leveraging to integrate service delivery and develop an enterprise portfolio of products. The series will be especially helpful to the public sector and others whose product is a service, rather than a tangible item for purchase.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Katherine (Kit) Shelton from the Department of Human Services (DHS) for the State of Minnesota is applying business architecture to help DHS transform service delivery by coordinating distributed work to integrate services and transition to a product operating model. She and two other Enterprise Business Architects in the Agency Effectiveness Administration lead a cross-functional team of business experts from all over the department to apply shared principles and common standards across business units to integrate multiple perspectives into a single enterprise-wide business framework.
Interested in Watching the First Part of the Series?
This video focuses on business capabilities, the role, and position in the larger business architecture framework.
Learn how capabilities can be used as building blocks and how to demonstrate how capabilities use and modify information.
Expert Insights Webinar
Audience:
You do not need to be a business architect to find this series useful, others will also find benefits for themselves and their organizations
Learn more about how product managers can use business architecture in their roles.
Getting the Business to Care About Business Architecture
Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
A Modern Business Architect working in the field and teaching for Metro State’s business architecture program.
Past Expert Insights Webinar
The success of a business architecture practice is tied to how well the business architect partners with the business and demonstrates value.
In this session we will discuss some tips and techniques for getting your business stakeholders to become your greatest champions.
Audience:
You do not need to be a business architect to find this series useful, others will also find benefits for themselves and their organizations
A Business Architect’s Role in Product Management
Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
A Modern Business Architect working in the field and teaching for Metro State’s business architecture program.
Past Expert Insights Webinar
Modern Approaches to Collaborating Across Architecture Disciplines
You do not need to be a business architect to find this series useful, others will also find benefits for themselves and their organizations
In today’s complex business and digital environments, business architects often have to work closely with other architects, such as enterprise, data, and solution architects. In this session we will explore modern operating models for organizing different types of architects, along with approaches companies are taking to improve collaboration.
Getting the Business to Care About Business Architecture
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
A Modern Business Architect working in the field and teaching for Metro State’s business architecture program.
Past Expert Insights Webinar
How do you stand up a business architecture practice within an organization?
Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 1: Your Value Proposition
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Maureen Mathias
Maureen Mathias earned her Master of Arts from Rutgers University, later adding a Certified Business Architect from the Business Architecture Guild and a Business Architecture Certificate from Metro State University in St. Paul Minnesota.
Maureen started a journey in 2008 that led to a career as a business architect. “Through the journey, it seems I have hit every situation you would want to avoid. One thing that stands out, is that a business architecture practice anywhere must fit the culture and the needs of an organization.”
In her business architect role for an insurance company, she has established training for the teams that utilize architecture tools and for those that need to learn what business architecture is and how it relates to their day-to-day responsibilities for several years.
Maureen is excited to share her experience: what works and what does not as well as learn from the experiences of other business architects.
Past Expert Insights Webinar
* Please Note – This Expert Insights focuses on Business Architecture and is intended for an audience with a background or understanding of Business Architecture.
This 3-part Expert Insights Webinar Series will provide strategies used by Maureen Mathias to set up a practice in her organization.
This is a continuation of Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice: Part 1: Your Value Proposition which can be viewed HERE
Many are doing the work of business architecture within their organizations. How does this work by siloed individuals become a coordinated effort within an organization? How do you stand up a business architecture practice within an organization? Taking a cue from lawyers, the answer is “it depends.” While there are many paths, this Expert Insights Webinar Series will provide the strategies used by Maureen Mathias to stand up a practice in her organization.
This second session on Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice provides tips and strategies for establishing a charter for your business architecture practice.
Participants will learn about:
WATCH THIS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED WEBINAR HERE
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Maureen Mathias
Maureen Mathias earned her Master of Arts from Rutgers University, later adding a Certified Business Architect from the Business Architecture Guild and a Business Architecture Certificate from Metro State University in St. Paul Minnesota.
Maureen started a journey in 2008 that led to a career as a business architect. “Through the journey, it seems I have hit every situation you would want to avoid. One thing that stands out, is that a business architecture practice anywhere must fit the culture and the needs of an organization.”
In her business architect role for an insurance company, she has established training for the teams that utilize architecture tools and for those that need to learn what business architecture is and how it relates to their day-to-day responsibilities for several years.
Maureen is excited to share her experience: what works and what does not as well as learn from the experiences of other business architects.
Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 1: Your Value Proposition
Past Expert Insights Video
This third and final session in Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice poses questions that should be considered when it comes to the governance of an enterprise-level business architecture practice.
Participants will learn about considerations for:
Engagement – How do others access your services?Deliverables – What products and services are you providing?Interactions – What are the roles and responsibilities of the people involved?
How do you stand up a business architecture practice within an organization?
This 3-part Expert Insights Webinar Series will provide strategies used by Maureen Mathias to stand up a practice in her organization.
Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 1: Your Value Proposition
Standing Up a Business Architecture Practice Part 2: Your Business Architecture Practice Charter
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Maureen Mathias earned her Master of Arts from Rutgers University, later adding a Certified Business Architect from the Business Architecture Guild and a Business Architecture Certificate from Metro State University in St. Paul Minnesota.
Maureen started a journey in 2008 that led to a career as a business architect. “Through the journey, it seems I have hit every situation you would want to avoid. One thing that stands out, is that a business architecture practice anywhere must fit the culture and the needs of an organization.”
In her business architect role for an insurance company, she has established training for the teams that utilize architecture tools and for those that need to learn what business architecture is and how it relates to their day-to-day responsibilities for several years.
Maureen is excited to share her experience: what works and what does not as well as learn from the experiences of other business architects.
2020 demonstrated the criticality of a business’s ability to pivot and respond to a rapidly changing environment. Business strategies are now fluid, and business architects need to adapt. The session will focus on practical tips and methods for how business architects can take the tools in their toolbox and hit the turbo button to keep up with the world around them.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Dean Heltemes is the Senior Director of Business Architecture in Advisor Technology Solutions for Ameriprise Financial. He is well-known in the Twin Cities for his business architecture expertise from his role as a Business Architect instructor at Metropolitan State University and from serving on the board of the Twin Cities Business Architecture forum.
