April 7-10, 2008 Orlando, FL

Few topics cause more debate than how to improve the relationship between the Business and the Information Technology organization.

Survey results among CEOs and CIOs repeatedly identify business alignment as the crucial issue, yet rarely do they reveal consensus agreement on how to achieve it.

• Better project management,
• IT Governance,
• requirements management,
• SOA delivery, and
• agile development

are all offered as possible solutions.

While they are all important, they focus only on part of the problem – project delivery.

Only one discipline unites business and information technology across the full holistic context of what the business really is – all of its strategies, objectives, processes, information, people, infrastructure, solutions and systems. That discipline is enterprise architecture and it is one of today’s hottest topics in information technology management.

Richard Burk, member of the MEGA International Advisory Board and former chief architect for the U.S. government, will be a keynote speaker on “The Future of Enterprise Architecture in Government – Where do we go from here?”

Patrick Cooper, senior enterprise architect, Cox Enterprises, will present “EA Steps: From Start to Success, a Cox Enterprises Case Study”, at the conference. The case study details how Cox Enterprises uses the MEGA Modeling Suite for an innovative program that lets the company model its business and technology information. More information on the Cox program is at www.patrickwcooper.com/eablog.

Conference participants can schedule private meetings with MEGA International at the event by contacting Mike Hebda by email.

Gather with the enterprise architecture community in April for a professional learning and networking experience that will transform you into a champion for uniting business and IT in your organization.

More information on the IIR website