Architect's Corner!

Finally, it’s the time to celebrate the winners of the 2nd Annual Enterprise & IT Architecture Excellence Award. This year, 22 companies around the world walked home with Global Awards for Architecture Excellence amidst enough fanfare at the Architecture Excellence Awards 2011 organized by iCMG.

Winners 2011

Here, is the list of winners in three categories i.e. Business, Technical, Enterprise followed with the winners of the special awards..

1. Business Categories

The “Business Categories” consist of excellence in five key areas such as Business Process Management, Customer Oriented Business Models, Growing business in new territory or new service offering, Business Intelligence and Analytics, and Startups.

Award	Company	Initiative
1.Business Process Management	Dutch Immigration & Naturalisation Service (IND	INDiGO
	Singapore Ministry Of Defence (MINDEF)	Business- IT Alignment with Enterprise Architecture in the Singapore Ministry of Defense
2. Customer Oriented Business Models	Northrop Grumman	US Army digital battlefield
	Intel Corporation	Enabling Global Collaboration with Intel Architecture
3. Growing business in new territory or new service offering	Vodafone Essar Limited	TAP Segregator for Roaming Business
4. Business Intelligence and Analytics	ICICI Bank Limited	Leveraging the use of Technology and Analytics in Debt Management
5. Startups	None

2. Enterprise (Business & IT) Categories

The “Enterprise (Business & IT) category” consist of excellence in 6 areas such as Transformation and Planning, IT Landscape Rationalization, Architecture Governance, Best Green Architecture, Acquisition and Mergers and Enterprise Architecture.

Award	Company	Initiative
1. Transformation and Planning	Dubai Customs	Leveraging Enterprise Architecture for Reform & Modernization
	MOH Holdings	National Electronic Health Records Architecture (NEHRA)
2. IT Landscape Rationalization	Lloyds Banking Group	IT Landscape for UK’s Biggest Bank
3. Architecture Governance	The Hartford	Straight Through Submission Architecture Implementation
	Brisbane City Council	Implementing EA and ICT Governance in a many project environment
4. Best Green Architecture	Deutsche Bank	Deutsche Bank’s Global Environmental Sustainability Architecture
5. Acquisition and Mergers	Dell	IT Mergers & Acquisition Playbook Development
	COX Enterprise	Cox Media Group Financial Systems Consolidation
6. Enterprise Architecture :	CSX	CSX Enterprise Architecture Planning and Transformation
	SBI General Insurance	Comprehensive Enterprise General Insurance IT Solution

3. Technical Categories

The “Technical Categories” consist of excellence in five key areas such as Future IT (Web 2.0, Cloud and other emerging technologies), SOA Vision for Enterprise Services, IS Security Architecture, IT Service Management and Open Source Technologies.

Award	Company	Initiative
1.Future IT (Web 2.0, Cloud and other emerging technologies)	Joint between SWOne, IBM and BT	Fibre Optic WAN for Somerset Council
	MTS	BSS Stack on the cloud
2.SOA Vision for Enterprise Services	Game Group plc	Architecture driven SOA
3.IS Security Architecture	Protestant Church in the Netherlands	LRP Project for member registration, fund-raising and local church work
4.IT Service Management	Tesco Hindustan Service Center	Architecture Driven, IT Service Management, Transformation and Convergence Management
5.Open Source Technologies	Realmdigital	Exclus1ves E-Commerce Store

4. John Zachman Award for Enterprise Architecture

The iCMG Architecture World 2011 John A. Zachman Enterprise Architecture award is bestowed upon Amar Kumar Pandey in acknowledgement and appreciation of his innovative employment of Enterprise Architecture concepts in Criminal Investigation:

Winner of the Zachman Award 2011 - Mr. Amar Kumar Pandey

• discerning and extracting elementary components (Primitives) of criminal events,
• creating and employing feasible scenarios (Composites) for analysis, evaluation and action,
• facilitating effective administration, management and deployment of Law Enforcement resources, leading to efficient and successful identification of perpetrators and mitigating life-endangering threats to society.

5. iCMG Hall of Fame 2011

Winner of iCMG Hall of Fame for 2011 is Mr. Steve Towers, CEO of BP Group. A seasoned practitioner with over 30 years of hands-on experience, Steve is one of industry’s noted experts in Advanced BPM and Performance transformation. He heads the Research & Professional Services network within the BP Group. Steve is a well-known, coach, mentor and inspirational leader including author of 5 books.

Steve Towers with iCMG Hall of Fame 2011 Award

This is the second year since awards have been instituted. After carefully analyzing the nominations this year, it’s interesting to note that architecture practices are not restricted to a specific vertical (industry) or the country. We received nearly 100 entries from across 21 Countries covering over 16 plus industries. The process which began during Feb 2011 with inviting the organizations to participate and nominate, finally ended on 28^th July 2011 with spectacular dance performances, specially commissioned for the awards night.

Heartfelt, thanks to all the winners for contributing to the betterment of the world through their work.