Architects and the Environment
I held the latest meeting of the UK Microsoft Architect Council this week and this was a meeting with a difference entitled "The Council and the Environment". This time round the aim was to discuss our role in relation to the UK Industry.
First off Jon Collins presented the research he and MWD have been are doing entitled the Technology Garden, that describes "six sustainable habits of succesful CIOs". He then ran a workshop to consider Enterprise Architecture (EA) in the context of the Technology Garden asking three questions:
- What were the potential ways that EA could help deliver IT-Business alignment, and how should these be articulated?
- What are the challenges faced by organisations trying to deliver EA?
- What actions need to be undertaken to maximise the chances of EA success?
Here's the resultant mind map:
The following day we ran a think tank with a group of representatives from 7 UK universities discussing the issues raised in the Developing the Future report that was published last year and how we can deal with the emerging skills gap between what higher education delivers and what IT desires.This was an incredibly thought provoking session that raised several that I hope will provide input into DtF V2 and hopefully just the start of building stronger relations between the council and academia.
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