EA at CSU - A Journey
Mike Rebbechi
Executive Director, IT
Charles Sturt University
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What we trying to solve
Where we are on the journey
The Premise for EA at CSU
“An intelligent organisation will
be a successful organisation”
EA for CSU is not an IT thing
– it is a business thing
Things we hear around our campuses!
What would the Senior
Executive know about the
issue anyway?
That decision has a direct
bearing on me! - If only
they had asked!
The bloody library –
they are so demanding
What in the hell is IT
up to now!
The problem with this
place is that you never
know what is going on!
Facilities are hopeless –
all we want is a few walls
removed!
What half wit decide that!
Some things I think we need to accept!
Regulators and decision
makers very often don’t know
much about the issue they are
deciding upon
Very few if any of us know
much about the business of
others in our organisation
Many of our institutions are
managed to an alarming extent
by “gut feel”
We rarely know enough to know
how little we know
We mostly under-estimate the
complexity of our organisations
We rarely know who else is
worrying about the same things
we are worrying about
The more complex the
organisation the less accurate
is the gut
The Solution – biting the bullet!
• We all have to stop “side stepping” the issue of
complexity – we need to stop trying to find work-arounds
• We need to accept that our organisations are complex
• We need to accept that informed decision making is not
possible without a thorough knowledge of the
organisation
• We need to convince decision makers that EA can
improve their decision making.
CSU’s approach to EA
"If you hold a cat by the tail
you learn things you cannot
learn any other way.“
Mark Twain
You get scratched and spat
upon – but you do learn a
hell of a lot about cats
So what is EA for CSU?
EA for CSU is about gathering,
documenting, modelling and
understanding the organisation
Our Dream
• An enterprise modeller will sit with the
Senior Executive of the University when it
is making decisions.
• Competitive budget processes will be a
thing of the past
• A new Vice Chancellor will consult the
enterprise model before making a change
Is EA actually a new concept?
Of Course Not!
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Suzuki – NPC address on Wednesday 25th
October
An architect and spaces
Engineers and structural elements
All of them want to know how everything fits
together
We have always produced artefacts
The more complex the object the more detailed
the artefacts.
Will EA have an effect on
the Organisation?
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It will change behaviours of our decision makers
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It will change the behaviours of our regulators
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It will change organisational structures
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It will change the IT organisation as we know it
The Journey
How are the staff feeling on the journey
Restructure
CSU IA
CSU IS
DataDAP
Architecture Project
CSU IA
Now we have the cat by the tail
DG
EAPG
EIG
Can will do it better?
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