Assessing the adoption of Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a change agent within an organisation wide change
Overview
This project is funded by JISC
The introduction of Smartcards and new access control system across the Coventry University campus will vastly improve systems and processes along with the experience of our staff and students. It will also reduce our financial costs and our impact on the environment.
In order to ensure that the new IT solutions align to this strategic goal, we will adopt an Enterprise Architecture (EA) approach to review and re-design of our business processes and supporting application and technology. Using this approach will help us overcome the change barriers normally associated with organisational change.
Aims and Objectives
This project aims to demonstrate how an Enterprise Architecture approach can help to overcome cultural barriers associated with a change initiative such as governance, staff roles and responsibilities as well as ensuring that all opportunities are exploited and that new business processes contribute in reducing environmental impact. This proposal will show how we can exploit the benefits of Smartcards and implement organisational wide change through the adoption of
The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). It will not be concerned with the physical implementation of the access control system which will be undertaken as a separate University project proceeding in parallel.
Project Methodology
The project methodology will be based upon the adoption of a light-touch TOGAF framework combined with a light-touch PRINCE2 to ensure good governance of this project and timely delivery of its outputs and objectives.
Anticipated outputs and outcomes
- Iterative case study
- Baseline and target Enterprise Architecture
- Full project report (including report of test of assumption, tackling issue of governance, gap analysis, result of our BRM exercise)
- Evaluation of the open source Archi tool with notes on how to use it
- SOA model
- Evaluation SOAP vs REST
- Evaluation of BizTalk
- Report on our BRM
Technology / standards used
Framework: Combination of light-touch TOGAF and light-touch PRINCE2.
Technology:
- ARCHI for modelling
- JISC InfoNet Impact Calculator to cost our baseline and target processes
- Suste-IT Carbon Footprinting Tool to assess our base line and target carbon footprint
| Project team |
| Name |
Role |
Contact |
Project Manager:
Nathalie Czechowski |
Lead Analyst Programmer, ITS-IS |
ccx202@coventry.ac.uk |
| John Latham |
Pro-Vice Chancellor and Project Director |
Jlatham@coventry.ac.uk |
| Ian Anderson |
Business Analyst |
ccx313@coventry.ac.uk |
| Stephen Booth |
Technical Specialist (middleware, enterprise software infrastructure) |
ccx111@coventry.ac.uk |
| Kathy Collins |
Principal Registry Officer and project client stakeholder |
reg096@coventry.ac.uk |
Mike Foxall
|
Assistant Director, Operations and Maintenance & key stakeholder, Estates |
aa3991@coventry.ac.uk |
| Philip Brabban |
Head of Circulation and Document Delivery Services & key stakeholder, Library |
aa2950@coventry.ac.uk |
| Steve Rogers |
Server Development Leader, ITS |
ccx314@coventry.ac.uk |
| Mark Cooper |
Principal Analyst Programmer, ITS |
aa0365@coventry.ac.uk |
| David Price |
Principal Analyst Programmer , ITS |
ccx074@coventry.ac.uk |
| Iain Watt |
Infrastructure Development Leader, ITS |
aa3473@coventry.ac.uk |
| Shaban Padam |
Principal Analyst Programmer , ITS |
ccx006@coventry.ac.uk |
Project documents
Download the JISC bid document