Strategic Architecture Skills to Suit your Business

COURSES

COURSES

Coaching Enterprise Architects are a Learning Organisation, as opposed to a Training Company.  We help you to put into practice all the theory, methods and models that you may or may not have been exposed to, that are typically used by great enterprise architects all over the world.  We help you to understand how to apply the knowledge we impart at your workplace.  The knowledge you gain will complement any training course you choose to gain industry recognised qualification.

Enterprise Architecture

  • Enterprise architecture foundations

  • Enterprise architecture implementation

  • Digital transformation planning and implementation

  • Deliver business agility through problem solving and service design techniques

  • Solution architecture

Business Architecture

  • Business architecture foundations

  • Strategic planning frameworks and implementation

  • Capability planning

  • Operating model design

Soft Skills & Short Courses

  • From order taker to trusted advisor
  • Improving team dynamics
  • Leadership for enterprise architects
  • Positive performance support
  • Performance management frameworks for IT
  • Communicating to difficult stakeholders
  • Influence without authority

Establish Enterprise Architecture
Embedding the capability

1. Let’s speak the same language What is Enterprise Architecture?
2. How can I tell if my Enterprise Architecture practice is successful?
3. Give me a great way I can communicate the value of investing in Enterprise Architecture
4. What’s a charter, why should I have one and what do I do with it?
5. Principles, do I really need them?
6. I need an engagement model that gets stuff done!
7. How do I manage all my enterprise architecture data?
8. How do I make sure I am not the lone nut in my organisation?
9. Review key outputs to embed your enterprise architecture
10. Surround yourself with awesomeness!

You will come on this course to learn how to take the first steps to establish your successful Enterprise Architecture practice.

You will learn and apply your newly gained knowledge to create your enterprise architecture charter, select a set of principles that work for you, take away the first draft of your service engagement model and be ready to realise success as you practice.

In this course you will be expected to participate in a team and also work independently to practically apply your learnings using rich examples provided to you.

You will be expected to create content based on your organisation’s context and do some homework to ensure you get the most out of the course.

At the end of the course, you will be equipped with a method, tools and techniques to:

  • Finalise your enterprise architecture charter, including a set of key success measures
  • Socialise and seek support for your set of principles
  • Finalise your service engagement model and be ready to work it
  • Finalise your enterprise architecture content architecture
  • Finalise your plan to gain support for enterprise architecture work

When you complete this course you will:

  1. Confirm your understanding of enterprise architecture
  2. Confirm your understanding of what successful enterprise architecture practice is
  3. Learn how to engage the business to sell the value of enterprise architecture
  4. Learn how to create an enterprise architecture service charter
  5. Learn which enterprise architecture principles to use to deliver successful business outcomes
  6. Learn how to draw and communicate your enterprise architecture model in a way that engages the business and other key stakeholders
  7. Learn how to manage your enterprise architecture data.
  8. Learn how to evangelise and recruit your organisation to embed enterprise architecture practices .
  9. Learn how to define a plan to continue to embed enterprise architecture practices

Your highly experienced learning guide will use their experience as a successful enterprise architect to teach you how to be practice through story telling. 

You will be expected to participate in individual and team exercises to apply the knowledge you gain through the course.  Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.

You will have to do some homework before you come to the course, so that you have sufficient background information about your current or past organisation to participate in the exercises.

There will be some role play involved to help you learn how to communicate effectively with the people in your organisation.

You will take away version 0.1 documents and models for you to continue to practice when you leave the course.

Expect to spend 2hrs with your coach post the course who will meet you to offer support.

Enterprise Architects
Business Architects
Solution Architects
Solution Architects
Infrastructure Architects
IT Leaders who want to establish world class enterprise architecture capabilities

Before the course you must know about:

  1. Who your key stakeholders are for enterprise architecture in your business?  Bring a completed stakeholder management matrix.
  2. A copy of your organisation’s business and IT strategic plan.  Assumption is that you will have read it before the course.
  3. A view of where your current enterprise architecture team sits in the organisation.  An organisation chart will help.
  4. If you have an existing enterprise architecture charter you  might like to bring it with you.

Note: All the information above is for your personal use and will help you to complete the exercises.  You are not required to share any information, especially if it is not publicly available.

This is a two day course in the classroom and 16 hrs online through four weeks of two hour sessions twice weekly.

Course cost:
Classroom $1600
Online $800

Maximum attendees: 16

Start: 9.00am
Finish: 5.00pm (approximately)

ESTABLISH ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Business Architecture in Practice
Becoming Partners with the business

Day 1 – Strategic context

Course introduction

Capability planning

Business architecture customers and stakeholders

Strategy mapping using the Business Motivation Model

Modelling the business architecture

Day 2 – Capability context

Business capability modelling

Business architecture understanding & insights

Strategic importance

Pain Points

Investments

Maturity

Presenting the business architecture.

This course will allow you to quickly grasp the concepts of business architecture and apply your newly gained knowledge in your workplace.

This is a quick start course where you will be introduced to the methodology and tools used by leading and highly experienced business architecture practitioners.

Gaining this knowledge is just the start of your experience, where your instructor will also coach you in how to apply your business architecture learning to your own organisation through a number of hands-on exercises.

You will learn how to partner with the business to build insights that held understand if the organisation is investing in doing the right things to deliver strategy and resolving issues and challenges that hinder the successful delivery of business outcomes.

Additionally you will learn how to define valuable work that deliver superior experiences to customers and employees that are critical to your business success.

At the end of the course, you will:
1. Understand the basics of business architecture
2. Know who your key stakeholders are and how to partner with them
3. Know which business architecture models to use in the right business context to deliver responsive and adaptive insights
4. Learn how to create compelling story boards that saliently present the decisions that need to be made to realise the business strategy
5. Understand how to integrate business strategy planning with your business architecture work

Your highly experienced learning guide will use their experience as a successful business architect to teach you how to be  practice through story telling.

You will be expected to participate in individual and team exercises to apply the knowledge you gain through the course. Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.

You will have to do some homework before you come to the course, so that you have sufficient background information about your current or past organisation to participate in the exercises.

There will be some role play involved to help you learn how to communicate effectively with the people in your organisation.

Expect to spend 2hrs with your coach post the course who will meet you to offer support.

Enterprise Architects
Business Architects
Solution Architects
Business Analysts
Project managers who want to consider a career change
IT Leaders who want to deliver more value to the business

Before the course you must know about:

1. Who your key stakeholders are for business architecture in your business. Bring a completed stakeholder management matrix.

2. Some of your own stories of successes, failures, memorable moments, aspirations and disappointments.

3. Sample business architecture models that you use today in your practice

Note: All the information above is for your personal use and will help you to complete the exercises. You are not required to share any information, especially if it is not publicly available.

This is a two day course in a virtual classroom

Course cost:
$1500 + GST

Maximum attendees: 16

Start: 9.00am Finish: 5.00pm (approximately)

To register for this course follow this link.

BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE IN PRACTICE

Influencing Skills for Enterprise Architects
How to make a lasting impact

  1. The importance of Emotional Intelligence
  2. The art of keeping and changing your focus
  3. Winning conversations – it all start with listen
  4. Understanding change resistance and how to overcome it
  5. Stakeholder engagement and how to make it personal
  6. Be noticed, listened to and followed by practicing your charisma
  7. How to become a trusted advisor

This course will show you the importance of personal and inter-personal skills (the so-called ‘soft skills’) for your success as an Enterprise Architect and give you tools and hands-on practice to start improving your potential to make a lasting impact on the organisation(s) you work for.

You will learn the basics of Emotional Intelligence and how to improve this in yourself and others; practice your ability to focus, observe and empathise; practice your listening skills; get a new perspective on how to deal with change resistance; practice a personalised approach to stakeholder engagement; use theatrical techniques to make your presentations memorable experiences; and learn the basic steps towards becoming a trusted advisor and partner to the business.

This course will be a combination of theory and practice. You will be expected to work together with other participants, using a mix of your own stories and experiences, examples and cases to bring the material to life.

At the end of the course, you will have learned:

1. The importance of Emotional Intelligence and how to improve it

2. How to become better at focusing on the right thing at the right time

3. How to use listening as a powerful influencing tool

4. How to tap into the positive side of change resistance

5. How to make stakeholder a personal experience for your stakeholders and you

6. How to become a powerful and memorable presenter

7. The steps to take to build and maintain trust inside your organisation

Your highly experienced learning guide will use their own experience as a successful enterprise architect to teach you how to become a more impactful architect by improving your personal and inter-personal skills.

You will be expected to participate in individual and team exercises to apply the knowledge you gain through the course. Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty, but make sure to have a lot of fun in the process, too. Some of this material is seriously funny!

You will have to do some homework before you come to the course, so that you have sufficient background information about your current or past stakeholders to use in some of the exercises.

You will be asked to listen, talk and present to each other to help you learn how to communicate effectively with the people in your organisation.

You will take away frameworks, models and examples for you to continue to practice when you leave the course.

Expect to spend 2hrs with your coach post the course who will meet you to offer support.

Enterprise Architects
Business Architects
Solution Architects
Solution Architects
Infrastructure Architects
IT Leaders who want to establish world class enterprise architecture capabilities

Before the course you must know about:

1. Who your key stakeholders are for enterprise architecture in your business. Bring a completed stakeholder management matrix.

2. Some of your own stories of successes, failures, memorable moments, aspirations and disappointments.

3. Your personal elevator pitch about why you want to become a successful Enterprise Architect.

Note: All the information above is for your personal use and will help you to complete the exercises. You are not required to share any information, especially if it is not publicly available.

This is a one day course in the classroom and online classes will be delivered once a week for two hours over four weeks.

Course cost:
Classroom $800
Online $500

Maximum attendees: 16

Start: 9.00am Finish: 5.00pm (approximately)

INFLUENCING SKILLS FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTS

Strategic Architecture for AI and Data
Building a Strategy that can unleash the power of AI and Data

1. How to use Strategic Architecture to transform your organisation

2. Why is the Fourth Industrial Revolution like no other change the world has ever seen?

3. What are the SuperPowers of AI and Data and why are they important?

4. Why create a Strategy, why not just jump in and do cool stuff?

5. How can I develop a Strategy that can be understood by Business and Technology people?

6. Give me a step by step process to develop strategies that deliver business outcomes.

7. How do I get engagement and support of the strategy I develop?

8. Can the strategy address the AI and Data culture problem in my organisation?

9. I will develop a roadmap that outlines the strategy to be implemented

10. I will make my AI and Data strategy a living document so it gathers no dust.

You will come on this course to understand how to develop a strategy that can enable the transformational forces of AI and Data to be embraced by your organisation. You will be provided with the strategic architecture methodology and template to enable you to create a strategy that can transform your organisation.

You will understand the potential of the superpowers of AI and Data and how to create a strategy to unleash these powers. You will learn and apply your newly gained knowledge by creating your own AI and Data Strategy that will be delivered in partnership with Business and ICT professionals.

At the end of the course, you will be equipped with a method, tools and techniques to:
➢ Create strategic architecture that can transform your organisation
➢ Describe what the superpowers of AI and Data are and why they are important
➢ Develop a strategy based on a step by step process that can deliver business outcomes
➢ Create an AI and Data culture plan to enable people to be on board with the developed strategy
➢ Develop a roadmap that aligns the required activities your AI and Data strategic outcomes
➢ Create a Realisation Plan to activate the strategy in your organisation

Your highly experienced learning guide will use their real world experience supported by the book, AI and Data Strategy that will be provided. You will use this as a textbook to support your learning journey and have it as a reference guide after the course.

You will be expected to participate in individual and team exercises to apply the knowledge you gain through the course. Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.

You will have to do some homework before you come to the course, so that you have sufficient background information about your current or past organisation to participate in the exercises.

There will be some role play involved to help you learn how to communicate effectively with the people in your organisation.

You will take away version 0.1 of your AI and Data Strategy for you to further develop in your organisation and take with you excellent insights and templates to continue your development as a Strategic Architect.

Expect to spend 2hrs with your coach post the course who will ensure you are embedding your learning well into practice.

Chief Data Officers
Chief Digital Officers
Chief Information Officers
Enterprise Architects
Business Architects
Data / Information Architects
Technology and Business Leaders
Organisational Change Managers

These professionals will also find the course useful:
Business Technology Partners
Project, Program and Portfolio Managers
Management Consultants
Solution and Domain Architects
Data Scientists / Analysts

Before the course you must know about:

  1. Who your key stakeholders are for AI and Data in your business? Bring a completed stakeholder management matrix. A suitable template may be downloaded from here: www.strategicarchitects.com.au
  2. A copy of your organisation’s business and IT strategic plan. Assumption is that you will have read it before the course and you are able to use it on the course.
  3. An understanding of what AI and Data initiatives are underway in your organisation and any strategies that may include AI or Data. Download a template of a simple Project Register here: www.strategicarchitects.com.au
  4. If you have an AI and Data Strategy or an umbrella strategy for example ICT Strategy or Digital Business Transformation Strategy you may like to bring that along. Also useful would be Business Intelligence, Data, Analytics and Insights strategies if they are available.

Note: All the information above is for your personal use and will help you to complete the exercises. You are not required to share any information, especially if it is not publicly available.

This is a one day course and you will be provided with a copy of the course text-book.

Course cost: $800

Maximum attendees: 16

Start: 9.00am

Finish: 5.00pm (approximately)

STRATEGIC ARCHITECTURE FOR AI & DATA

Maximise your Skillset

SHORT COURSES

2 HOUR SHORT COURSES

Choose from the following courses:

COURSE ID: CEASC-01

Learn how to use your company strategic intent model based on the BMM and learn how to map Program of Work to the Tactical plan.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

COURSE ID: CEASC-02

Learn what the BMC and VPC are and how to create your own models to understand the business and customer needs.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

COURSE ID – CEASC-03

Learn a variety of models that can be used for modelling the front stage of your business to improve customer and employee experience.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

COURSE ID: CEASC-04

Learn a variety of models that can be used for modelling the back stage of your business to improve customer and employee experience.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

COURSE ID: CEASC-05 

Use Porter’s Industry framework and PESTLE to do an impact analysis of your external envrionment. View how this affects your Business Strategy and how to go about updating it.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

COURSE ID: CEASC-06 

Learn about the origins of Porter’s value chain and how to create your business capability model.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

COURSE ID: CEASC-07

Document a Product Strategy and Roadmap to communicate coherently to key stakeholders.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

COURSE ID: CEASC-08

Design a portfolio prioritisation workshop and learn how to engage stakeholders in making investment decisions.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

COURSE ID: CEASC-09

Learn how to use a Balance Scorecard and set KPIs for your business and team.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

COURSE ID: CEASC-10

Learn pragmatic ways to gather and build customer intelligence that provides deep insights into customer behaviours.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer:Christine Stephenson

COURSE ID: CEASC-11

Learn and understand what business agility means and how to work in an agile way.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

CLIENT ID: CEASC-12

Learn how to write a winning business case and what sponsors need to see.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

CLIENT ID: CEASC-13

Introduction to business innovation and achieving competitive advantage.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

CLIENT ID: CEASC-14

Learn how to manage an innovation project and what successful innovation looks like.

Duration: 2hours
Delivery Mode: C/VC
Your Trainer: CS

CLIENT ID: CEASC-15

Learn how to support your business to achieve a digital transformation.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

CLIENT ID: CEASC-16

Learn how to manage the innovation funnel and ensure new ways of working get adopted and embedded.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

CLIENT ID: CEASC-17

Learn how to effectively manage change and realising benefits of your investment.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

CLIENT ID: CEASC-18

Learn what managers need to know about IT operations and strategy planning.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

CLIENT ID: CEASC-19

Learn how to manage the lifecycle of IT assets and reduce technology debt.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson

CLIENT ID: CEASC-20

Introduction to Enterprise Architecture for IT and non-IT people.

Duration: 2- 3hours
Delivery Mode: Classroom/Virtual Classroom
Your Trainer: Christine Stephenson