Marius Snel is a director at Knotion Consulting and has been involved with the IT industry for nearly 20 years.

Marius started his career at Infomet , consulting to many companies ranging from government to financial services on the usage and value of a formal methodology. The next 5 years at IBM, he was a solutions architect implementing OO solutions in Smalltalk and Java. The last 7 years at Nedbank he played a key role in the specification and realization of Nedbank’s strategic architecture initiatives, such as the Distribution Services Framework and implementation of SOA. As part of the Business Architecture team he focused on the implementation of TOGAF, creating a value chain from EA through to implementation using a Service Oriented Architecture.

Marius currently consults to Government and Financial Services organizations, helping them get value through the creation and implementation of Enterprise Architecture using TOGAF, and linking their EA initiatives to various SOA implementations.

Presentation
Defining the value of your EA initiative
Enterprise Architecture is a hot topic and the key question is how to show value from EA initiatives. The aim of the presentation is to define a model that will enable an organization to show value for setting up its EA initiative, as well as prove value on an ongoing basis.

Most organizations require a Business Case to prove the value of EA or start an EA initiative. Using project experience, it is clear that most business cases are “forgotten” after the project kick-off.  It is therefore questionable whether a business case will be sufficient for proving the value of EA. The best way is to build an EA value model for your organisation, which contains traceable metrics. 

This model needs to starts with the organization’s Vision, goals, strategy and objectives. Consider current project spend, Identify key stakeholders and their concerns. Various measurement models, such as balanced scorecard, should be built in; as well as an effective communication model.

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