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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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* 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.
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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.
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This question is so prevalent, it has an acronym – RTO.
Apply business architecture concepts and tools to RTO.
A look at the COVID pandemic’s impact on corporations and the digital economy through the lens of business architecture.
What PPE do you need? Considering vaccination? What are the requirements from your company to manage this? What are your requirements?
Join us for a webinar to see what challenges corporations have in providing a safe workspace for their employees.
What will interaction (team meetings, seating, etc) between employees be like? How will companies manage PPE needs? How will vaccination/testing requirements be managed?
Share in the dialogue as we look at how companies continue adapting infrastructure capabilities as they manage both customer and employee experience in the digital economy in hyperdrive due to the pandemic.
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By day Bao Do is a business architect for Wells Fargo leading their RTO efforts. In his spare time, he teaches in the Metro State Business Architecture Program.
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