In August 2021 the Standard Bank Group (SBG) CEO unveiled a new growth blueprint, Our Future-Ready Transformation Journey that outlined our 2025 ambition of becoming a platform business “We don’t want to be the shop, we want to be the mall.” Although this is a simple statement there is huge complexity locked up in it. SBG is the largest bank in Africa as of 2021, with total assets worth nearly 173 billion U.S. dollars.
The Enterprise Architecture (EA) function was invited to participate in the unpacking of this strategy. This presentation will share the challenges faced by EA to communicate the key concepts of this change, true to the words of John Zachman “the reasons you need Architecture are complexity and change”.
Delegates will learn:
• EA can enable strategy
• Complexity can be explained through analogies
• Understanding complexity brings focus
• Techniques introduced by EA