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Enterprise Architecture (EA) denotes management best practice for lining up business and technology resources to realize strategic results, expand upon Organizational Performance and steer departments to achieve their core missions more successfully and achieve Operational Excellence.
Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) assists any agency of the Federal government achieve this through documentation and information that conveys a summarized outlook of an enterprise at various tiers of scope and detail.
The FEAF comprises of 6 interconnected Reference Models including Security Reference Model (SRM), linked through Consolidated Reference Model (CRM), each relating to a sub-architectural domain of the FEA framework.
Security is a worldwide concern pervading through all layers of the organization. Effect on security at any level has an impact on each successive level, both ascending and descending. Appropriate place for developing and charting Security standards, policies, and norms is the Enterprise Architecture Governance since it is the enforcement point for IT investments.
Security Reference Model (SRM) is a framework for maturing a security architecture created on Information Security and privacy standards. SRM is omnipresent, entwining itself through all of the sub-architectures of the all-encompassing EA across all the other reference models.
Enterprise and solution architects have to remain aware of entire technology, business, performance, and security drivers so as to suitably steer IT Strategy and design Information Technology systems and choose apposite technology that fits their needs. SRM offers all levels of architects a direction to understanding when and where those needs can be consolidated.
SRM facilitates in forming an even security architecture in 3 key areas:
- Purpose
- Risk
- Controls
All the layers of SRM are vital for the security posture and wellbeing of an entire agency and/or system. Highest levels of Federal architecture transform federal laws, regulations, and publications into specific policies.
Main principle of the SRM, at the enterprise layer, is to utilize the standards in place throughout the Federal or national IT security expanse to classify policy for a particular enterprise or agency.
Segment level transforms department specific policies into security controls and measurements. Policies set in place from the enterprise layer are utilized by SRM to categorize controls for a certain agency or segment.
SRM utilizes controls set at the segment layer to enable system-specific designs and/or requirements of the individual system. SRM employs controls chosen by the agency or segment to truly embed security into a system or application.
Proper security procedures ensure both risk reduction and regulatory compliance. Regulatory compliance is not an aim in itself, but a constituent of the course by which risks and controls, applicable to the circumstance at hand, are chosen. Risk mitigation is the eventual motive for the application of security controls.
In the same vein, chief goal of security is not to apply controls rather it is to diminish risks by means of layered security measures of which implementation of controls is a part. Attaining decreased risk profile means that controls ought to be integrated throughout the organization, vertically and horizontally, across system and solution deployments, layered progressively.
Consequences of security are far more challenging to measure, and differ based on the organization’s business. Metrics are signs of an organization’s advancement in security maturity and part of the overall IT Capability Maturity. Undeveloped organizations have diminished capability of defining or collecting metrics.
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Most of us have experienced a uniqueness in some organizations. These organizations stand out, exude fervor and zeal. Their customers are pleased with the Customer Centric Design of the company, Employee Engagement is high, and investors and shareholders take pride in being part of it. It is not their exceptional product or service that is the base of Value Creation rather the Purpose that makes organizations unique—their reason for existence and the resulting impact it makes on the world.
Stakeholders identify with organizations that genuinely follow their Purpose. Leadership allocates resources in-line with the Purpose. Employees keep the Purpose front and center while making decisions for the company. On the other hand, in-genuine Purpose may harm the reputation of the company by turning away the stakeholders.
In order to be genuine, Purpose has to be embedded in the company’s DNA, which is no mean task. The “5 Ps of Purpose Framework” shows how this can be successfully achieved. The 5 Ps Framework identifies 5 areas of focus:
- Product Portfolio Strategy
- People & Culture
- Processes & Systems
- Performance Metrics
- Positions & Engagement
There are numerous benefits to transforming into a Purpose-driven Organization. The 5 Ps Framework contributes to unlocking the sources of value for the company and detect points of weakness. Purpose can pay lots of dividends, but it has to be authentic and imbued in the organization’s business model.
Let us delve a little deeper into the first P of the 5 Ps of Purpose.
Product Portfolio Strategy
An organization’s Product / Service offerings and the associated modalities of market and position planning that best cater to the target market ought to imbibe the Purpose of the company in order to appeal to the stakeholders.
The 1st step for achieving this objective has to be the alignment of business portfolio with the company’s Purpose–i.e. we need to integrate Purpose with our Portfolio Strategy. Companies already in existence may not be able to start afresh but they can surely reshape their business mix in a dynamic and resolute manner.
In step 2, the business portfolios are filled out with Products or Services that match the Purpose, and the ones that do not are rooted out. Certain key actions are needed to embed Purpose into the Product or Service offering, they include:
- Rethinking product portfolio — for example pulling out certain products, launching new products.
- Modifying pricing in line with Purpose.
- Re-evaluating portfolio and testing rationale of individual assets in light of common criteria.
A case example is an energy company in the extractive industries, founded 85 years ago, which has proved successfully that Purpose can be reinvented. Being in the extractive business for such a long time has not restricted the company from reexploring what an energy company may look like in the transforming environment of the future.
The company has significantly transformed its Purpose — “reimagining energy for people and planet.” In line with its Purpose, the company has divested from its petrochemicals businesses and plans to reduce its legacy oil and gas business by 40% by the year 2030. The company will instead augment its low-carbon energy businesses such as bioenergy, hydrogen, electric vehicle charging businesses, and aims to be a net-zero carbon emitter by the year 2050.
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“FlevyPro has been a brilliant resource for me, as an independent growth consultant, to access a vast knowledge bank of presentations to support my work with clients. In terms of RoI, the value I received from the very first presentation I downloaded paid for my subscription many times over! The quality of the decks available allows me to punch way above my weight – it’s like having the resources of a Big 4 consultancy at your fingertips at a microscopic fraction of the overhead.”
– Roderick Cameron, Founding Partner at SGFE Ltd
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