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Retired Enterprise Architect, Department of Homeland Security, US.

There may be other purposes for an Enterprise Architecture (EA), but planning is the first among equals. This interview focusses on the need for the agency to prepare an integrated target-application plan that reflects what it is doing or may be expected to do in the future. Only by developing a plan can an Agency Enterprise Architect thoroughly understand the integration problems that need to be solved.

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Governing the Solution Process - Coach or a policeman?

In order to get Strategy and Architecture (S&A) understood and adopted across a programme’s solutioning and support community, and also for solutions to be developed and deployed in line with those S&A long-term views and policies, is it best to use:
(a) an up-front supportive ‘coaching’ and guiding approach or (b) to take more of a ‘policing’ role and stop things when they have not complied.?

Negotiation Analysis - Become a better negotiator.

One of your sources of power is your ability to negotiate. Negotiation is something you do on a daily basis, whether you negotiate your employment contract, the best deal on a car, or a good idea. In many of your everyday interactions you try to influence and persuade somebody else.
This article provides a framework that describes the key elements of a negotiation. It will not help you to become a great negotiator instantly but it will help you to organise your thoughts and to recognise the various aspects of a negotiation.

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Led by Chris Potts, member of GEAO and the world's leading specialist in IT exploitation strategies.

Melbourne 1-2 May 2008
Auckland 5-6 May 2008

A two day interactive seminar for IT decision-makers, endorsed by GEAO. Unique in Australia & New Zealand at this time In the current environment of IT project uncertainty, market turmoil and deteriorating economic prospects, can you afford not to reassess your own IT Strategies?

Attend this once-only course if you wish to source, exploit and shape IT investments more effectively for business and IT success. This seminar is designed for CIOs, IT Directors, their senior IT managers and strategists, and for non-IT executive and managers wanting to better exploit IT investments.

For further information, including the full course description and pricing >> www.btell.com

Ben Ponne, president of GEAO, will provide a series of Business Skills workshops for Enterprise Architects and IT Managers in:

Singapore 21 July 2008
Kuala Lumpur 22 July 2008
Bangkok 23 July 2008

This workshop will give you an overview of the key business disciplines that you need to be aware of as an enterprise architect. It covers, at executive level, organisations and diagnostics, leadership (politics, power, social networks), strategy, financials (accounting, corporate and value management) and negotiation analysis. It will give you the fundamentals of business understanding and references on top of which you can continue to build future skills and knowledge.

Further information on this and other workshops can be found at http://www.flip-side.biz/eEAhome.htm or email sales@flip-side.biz