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Date: Thursday - March 27, 2008; 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Speaker: Richard D. Buchanan; Managing Vice President; Gartner
Description of presentation:
Consider the following questions:
• What is your current approach to enterprise architecture (EA)?
• What is your current approach to Portfolio Management?
• How do you link the two to best understand your investment strategies?
• Does your current approach to Portfolio Management allow you to assess performance against defined objectives and maximize overall return?
This Webinar will focus on Gartner’s research that describes how best practice organizations link the Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPMO) Processes. Along with Enterprise Strategic Planning, EA and EPMO represent the three primary planning disciplines that must be brought into harmony by complex global organizations. Best practice organizations craft well integrated analytical, governance and decision making processes designed to insure that IT investments successfully execute the strategies articulated by business and IT managers. Failure to address these linkages is a common source of failure in strategy and investment plans.
About The Speaker:
Richard Buchanan, Managing VP - Gartner
Role/Responsibility
Richard Buchanan is a managing vice president in Gartner, where he leads a veteran architecture practice team that focuses on thought leadership and client care. He specializes in enterprise architecture, business and IT strategy, and enterprise portfolio management. Mr. Buchanan is one of Gartner’s most sought-after speakers and workshop facilitators for companies around the world.
Bio
With 20 years of experience as a practitioner and consultant to Global 2000 companies, Mr. Buchanan has published research on topics as diverse as enterprise architecture and portfolio management, integrated logistics, electronic commerce, service-oriented and model-driven architecture, competitive intelligence, holistic security, corporate governance and total quality management. Mr. Buchanan joined Gartner in April 2005 with the acquisition of META Group, where he founded the Enterprise Planning and Architecture Strategies Service and advised public sector and private organizations on strategic planning, competitive intelligence, market research, benchmarking, scenario planning and competitive war gaming. He was formerly an analyst at Forrester Research. Before that, Mr. Buchanan was with Digital Equipment Corporation, where he managed product development research and competitive intelligence activities and was a key member of the Global Strategy planning team. In his earlier experience at General Dynamics Corporation, Mr. Buchanan was part of the naval architecture team, responsible for quality management during production