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The insurance company needs to integrate and rationalize its application portfolio and introduce a customer information management system due to industry pressures. It also needs to expand

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IS Class Exercises

The insurance company needs to integrate and rationalize its application portfolio and introduce a customer information management system due to industry pressures. It also needs to expand

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SCENARIO 1:

You are serving as a consultant to the Chief Architect of low-cost airline. The airline was formed in
2002 and has its main base at a major international airport on the east coast of North America. It
currently serves 65 destinations in 20 US states, and nine countries in the Caribbean, South America
and Latin America.

The airline has received approval to acquire a smaller regional carrier that will extend the market it
reaches and enable it to feed its primary routes with connecting flights from smaller cities. In order
to integrate the new acquisition, an enterprise architecture program has been initiated, using TOGAF
9 as the method and guiding framework. The CIO is the sponsor of the activity. The Chief Architect
has indicated that this program should make use of iteration with the ADM.

As the program moves into Phase A within the initial iteration of an Architecture Capability cycle, the
CIO has emphasized the need to ensure that the architecture is embraced across the enterprise.

SCENARIO 2:

You are serving as the Lead Enterprise Architect for a major bank, leading a group of domain
architects as well as working with the corporate project management office, strategic planners, and
operations management planners. The bank has been in business for over 60 years, growing through
a series of acquisitions with other financial institutions. It has a large IT service department and
routinely has over 100 infrastructure and service projects in progress. The Governing Board has
decided that a more structured approach to its infrastructure and services is necessary to safeguard
the business, especially given the recent turmoil in the financial markets.

As a result, the CIO has sponsored the creation of an Enterprise Architecture group. This group has
adopted TOGAF 9 as the basis for its enterprise architecture, developed an Architecture Vision,
which has been approved, and defined a set of domain architectures. The time has come to
consolidate the domain architectures and review the current initiatives and projects in the corporate
portfolio as well as potentially create new projects in order to realize the vision.

The CIO has stated that the implementation approach must accommodate the constantly occurring
changes to the technology and business landscapes. Shareholders want to see not just a vision but
want to know that there is a flexible, integrated Implementation and Migration Plan that has the
best chance of realizing the vision in these uncertain times.
SCENARIO 3:

You are serving as the Lead Architect for a European Insurance company. The company has grown
substantially over the last 15 years. Due to the many mergers and acquisitions, the application
portfolio of the enterprise has grown significantly with little consideration for consolidation or
rationalization. Each business unit has managed its own applications, with no coordination between
them. In the last two years the competition in the insurance industry has increased with the advent
of many Internet-based comparison sites leading to increased pressure to reduce the operational
expenses including IT.

The Corporate Board has approved the directive to establish an Enterprise Architecture program
within the company to integrate and rationalize the application portfolio and introduce a company-
wide customer information management system. The Corporate Board has also given a strategic
direction that the company should expand its markets significantly to cover all the member country
states of the European Union in the next 24 months.

The company has no existing enterprise architecture. The CIO is the sponsor of the program and has
mandated TOGAF 9 for the architecture method and deliverables. The CIO has established an
Architecture Board and called the first meeting.

TASKS:
1) Determine operating model
2) Should there be migration?
3) Where is the best opportunity for growth?
4) Describe the IT Engagement model
5) In what stage of EA maturity is the company finding itself? Should it advance? If so, how?

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