The past, present, and future of Enterprise Architecture with Aron Tan, ATD Solution.

Aaron Tan, the group CEO of ATD Solution in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong  and the Chairman of Iasa APAC, joins our Enterprise Architecture podcast to talk through the past, present and future of Enterprise Architecture.

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Chapters

• 4:48 The era of traditional EA and static models is not acceptable anymore. Only IT focused.
• 6:48 The concept of digital EA. Focusing on Business Architecture. Emerging trend with business integration.
• 7:46 Post COVID era architecture, We now need to clean u
• 10:53 The era of Agile Enterprise Architecture. Stable architecture that can respond to rapid changes in the organization. Architect owners, synchronised that with an agile team in sprints to deliver results.
• 13:19 Managing complexity, and ambiguity by using a common language, Archimate.
• 14:42 ESG is the next thing EA should focus at.
• 16:21 Where is EA as an industry going in the next 5 years?
• 17:40 EA practice will be embedded in the C-sweet. Intelligent EA is upcoming, 4.0.
• 19:20 Based on strategy and motivotaion we put into the database, we can improve our productivity with AI. Everyone should realize the benefit of EA.
• 20:31 Do you see AI as a threat for EA?
• 21:50 Rapid fire questions: Biggest challenge for EA? The Ability to communicate the vale of EA is still a challenge. If we can align better with the business we can overcome these challanges.
• 23:17 Still stuck in Excel/Visio/Powerpoint? How can you move out the traditional era of EA?

Transcript

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another Bizzdesign podcast around enterprise architecture. I am your host, Will Hardison, one of the marketing managers here at Bizzdesign. I have Aaron Tan with me today. 

Aaron is the group CEO of ATD Solution in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong 
Kong. He's also the chairman and founder of the IASA Asia Pacific which is the IT architecture professional body. And he's also written a book. He's a coauthor of the IASA BTAbok, which is business technology architect body of knowledge skill sets. I'm really excited to have him on today. How are you, Aaron? 

And thanks, Will, for, hosting me. And hello, everyone. My name is Aaron. 

So, Aaron and I have, been chatting about this topic, for, you know, a few weeks now. And I'm really excited for him to kind of break down sort of the different eras of enterprise architecture. And, you know, we all know, like, any industry things change. Right? Trends come and go, demands change, external factors change, and much more, but I don't think We've seen an era of change like we have over the last three to four years within enterprise architecture. 

I think we can all agree that COVID you know, like it did with many industries had a massive change impact on enterprise architecture industry. So, Aaron, I'm curious and I know we're gonna go back a little bit further. We had,  kind of previously discussed the past three to four years, but I think you're gonna take us even further back then that, you know, and it kind of explained where we started, probably ten or so years ago as enterprise architecture. 

Alright. Thank you, Bill. I think, for those of you who are architect practitioners that has been, in the so called in the practice for the last twenty years, right? Could recall somewhere in the year two thousand. 

So if you see, you know, like a stock market, stock market typically go to graph where they go SRA and now they're the bubbles to go down. Right? At the first architecture went to the same era. So, act actually, the graph was, defined by Gartner. 

So year two thousand was the peak for the enterprise architecture adoption globally, right? Because remember in the nineteen ninety seven, ninety eight is, where the or the dot com era, picking up over the world. So at the market, they can also follow the wave. So year two thousand was the pick, and after that free fall, Okay. 

There was the free fall until the block bottom at the two zero one two. That is where the there was where the togaf, nine was introduced then start accelerating. 

Then, of course, if those of you who follow the concept on the, what I call it, traditional Right? So the traditional EA actually, back, prior to two zero one three. And, right, and, of course, the traditional EA means the order diagram, the model are static. Right? 

I think we understand now the concept of static. I don't think we can accept the static, architect to the architecture artifacts. Because what happened is that in the static model, typically, we cannot interact. Right? 

We can only, see the diagram, but we cannot even touch Right? We can print it out, but of course, as soon as you print it out immediately, I'm sorry. And of course, the most of the artifacts are either in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, or spreadsheet. 

Of course, the job is that if we are not doing architecture, but we are becoming the, PowerPoint or official architects, right? Yeah. But our job, our life, dealing with the Excel spreadsheet. I mean, it was okay in the past, but I think now the world has moved, the technology as well as move on, and we need to adapt