The Syngenta Architecture Story

The Syngenta Architecture Story

I learnt form this chapter , the alignments between the business strategy and the Information technology strategies and functions will provide a consistency for a business and it will help the business to enhance the reputation and its  position in the market.

The below figures represent the main functions that Syngenta focus on to build their enterprise Architecture 

 

 

Business strategy	Agri	Consumer led	new
IS strategy	Fix Basics (efficiency )	Enable business Transformation (Growth)	High performance organization (innovation )
EA	People · Skills · Roles · org.	Process · Governance · Communication · Dev.	Technology · Documentation · Collaboration & Communication

 

 

 

Enterprise Architecture jobs in UAE and India

Similarities :

·        Exposure to Enterprise Architecture concepts including ServiceOriented Architecture, TOGAF / Zachmann / other reference Enterprise Architecture Concepts including relevant certifications.

·        Analyze enterprise business context (trends and business strategy

·        Industry exposure and pervious experience in the same field is preferred

Differences:

·        Excellent hand on experience and execution skill in providing such solution in UK/US setup.  

·        The years of experience required in UAE +12 but in India +7

·        In UAE the role description specified and explain role and requirement in details not like India the recruiter provide brief description on the job  mostly the baseline requirements .

·        . 3+ years of technical leadership providing direction to a across function team of technical resource on very complex solutions or Services offering architecture activates in UK/US – (Must).  In UAE

 

 

References :

http://www.indeed.ae/Enterprise-Architecture-jobs-in-UAE

http://www.wisdomjobs.com/view_job.php?jobid=649041&flag=t&utm_source=Indeed&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Indeed

Enterprise Architecture Mechanisms

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Lessons learn

-        When we implement a new change should maintain a good control mechanism and governance , it considers one of the success factors of the implementation process .

Baseline architecture is called As-Is architecture .It represents all components of the enterprise  processes , infrastructure and inputs/outputs .⁽¹⁾

 

Target architecture is called To-Be architecture. It represents all apparatus needed for reaching the vision of the organization and its position in the future mainly focusing on strategic thinking and plans.⁽¹⁾ 

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References:

1- Federal Enterprise Architecture http://www.gao.gov/assets/590/588407.pdf

Introduction to Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architecture it’s a blueprint of an organization’s main functions that assist in improving the understanding of the business complexity and decision making .

Why we need Enterprise architecture?

-        Clear structure of what we have in the current situation

-        Reduce costs and resources  resulting from avoiding duplication

-        Improve the decision making process

-        Consistent information and data