ICT OPERATING MODEL LEAD | NATIONAL INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS AGENCY
Astrid Ries
Astrid Ries is a business architect and transformation leader with more than 20 years of experience helping organisations solve complex business problems. Her career has spanned business analysis, strategy, operating model design, organisational transformation, and large-scale change initiatives across government and enterprise environments.
Known for connecting big-picture strategy with practical implementation, Astrid focuses on helping organisations understand how people, processes, technology, and governance come together to deliver outcomes. She is particularly interested in the synergy and cross-over between business analysis and business architecture in creating clarity, enabling better decision-making, and ensuring transformation efforts deliver real business value.
Presentation: Custodians of the Operating Model – The Conversation Continues
At the recent IIBA Leadership Summit in Sydney, a short session on business architecture for business analysts sparked more questions than time allowed — so we’re back to pick up on that thread. At this session we’ll show that business architecture isn’t a new discipline for BA’s, but the of the same decomposition, modelling and stakeholder synthesis you already do, just pointed at value streams and capabilities instead of requirements and processes. The key difference is, broadening the perspective from a project-oriented perspective to developing an enduring, holistic view of your company’s operating model.
We are three active practitioners and we’ll walk you through:
- a real government operating model built from the ground up,
- show you how to spot and pitch the opportunity in your own organisation (including where it intersects with the AI conversation everyone’s having but few can operationalise),
- and unpack what “custodianship” actually means (Spoiler: it’s about turning one-off analysis into something that outlasts the project it started on).
We’ll make sure that you walk out with practical recommendations that you can implement on Monday morning, not another framework to file away.
Astrid will present with Dr Terry Roach and Damian Wilson.