Tertiary education is going through significant change and disruption as technology enables new ways and models for adults to learn. Tertiary education institutes are finding they need to adopt new ways of working and build capability to adapt to and take advantage of the rapidly changing adult learning market.
Problem
Given this environment, the Information Systems team at a leading tertiary education institute wanted to better support their business and the current and planned programmes of work. As part of this, they identified the need to improve their enterprise and IT architecture practices.
Work
The institute’s IT architecture team undertook focused initiative to change their architecture approach. They held workshops to identify key issues and then introduced new IT architecture principles, standards, techniques and collateral to address these issues. They developed a high-level plan of architecture activities and collateral and they organised for team members to receive guidance and mentoring in the new ways of working. Techniques, methods and templates were pragmatically selected to meet the institute’s needs, including architectural vision development, architectural principles workshopping, root-cause analysis, application data mapping, and enterprise architecture technology standards.