IT agility is no longer an oxymoron

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IT Agility is No Longer an Oxymoron Matthew Newton

Enterprise Architect, glh. Hotels

IT Agility is No Longer an Oxymoron Matthew Newton Enterprise Architect glh. Hotels

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The views expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter, and not necessarily those of Apigee Corporation or the presenter’s employer.

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who are we?

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Who are glh. Hotels

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London's largest owner-operator hotel company with over

4,800 bedrooms

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Who are glh. Hotels: The Vision

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WORLD'S BEST MANAGED GLOBAL HOSPITALITY COMPANY

Deliver the best guest centric

experience in the industry

Doubling prime value and economic profit every 3-5 years


A Challenging Marketplace

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constraints

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Our Enterprise Scale Team


disrupt

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disrupt: Vision

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Deliver the best guest centric

experience in the industry


status quo: glh ICT (formal)

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Corporate ICT Strategy : TCO reduction

Unfinished business need specification

Internal 1st ICT delivery


status quo: glh ICT (actual)

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SHADOW IT: speed-to-market & innovation



disrupt: Mandate

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{ lead the industry in guest facing technology, infrastructure and decision sciences }


status quo: glh ICT (actual)

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SHADOW IT: speed-to-market & innovation



disrupt: glh ICT HYBRID delivery

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Corporate ICT Strategy Performance Improvement

SHADOW IT: Ship Alongside Hybrid ICT

delivery


disrupt: glh Technology CLOUD 1st philosophy

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Corporate Technology Strategy Time to Value, innovation

Ship Alongside Requirements: Principles, BDD, roadmaps

Cloud 1st delivery

SaaS


disrupt: glh Technology DIGITAL philosophy

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Corporate Technology Strategy Time to Value Product development API first Industry Leading

Business Requirements: BDD, roadmaps

Cloud delivery

IaaS PaaS

SaaS


decouple

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microservices now at work

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Mon

olith

ic M

icroservices


Guest Centric = a Digital Center


developing people

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Evolving Our Skills


develop: Technology Culture


develop: Time to Value with microservice projects


develop: Enterprise Scale Team 2016

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Technology

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feedback loop

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Employee Feedback: “one thing I would change”


In the 2015 Survey,

1.7%

responded SYSTEMS/TECH

a matter of weeks after glh. fully cut over to


Lessons learned so far….

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IT Agility is No Longer an Oxymoron

embrace constraints disrupt: change CHANGE

decouple simply

Develop all Operators

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Need correct heart

Matthew Newton Enterprise Architect @ glh. Hotels [email protected] linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/matthewjnewton

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