LEADing Practice, often referred to as LEAD, the fastest growing open standard and open source community with over 2 900 practitioners in Europe, America and Canada, is dedicated to developing enterprise modelling and enterprise architecture frameworks.
With this partnership, Knotion will represent LEADing Practice throughout the African continent. It marks an important milestone for the African IT community, as the introduction of LEAD has been recognised as a paradigm shift by the global business and IT community.
"LEAD has thrown open a new window on the world of IT by addressing and solving the key strategy and IT challenges of today," says Knotion Director, Marius Snel. "We are always in pursuit of innovative new developments in the field of enterprise architecture, and LEADing Practice fills the gap that has been in the market for a considerable time. It provides the platform to implement our vision of propelling African organisations to the cutting-edge of the international business stage through enterprise architecture and enterprise modelling thought leadership. We are privileged to be representing LEADing Practice in the rapidly developing African market."
"LEAD is a collection of best leading practices, derived from over 10 years of university research, packaged into usable standards and templates," explains Professor Mark von Rosing, Chairman of the Global University Alliance and Founder of LEADing Practice. "As a LEADing Practice Partner, Knotion will be empowered to support African organisations to structure a common way of thinking, working and modelling that will enable them to innovate, transform and deliver value."
LEAD structures the way of thinking, working and modelling in a layered enterprise architecture and object-based approach that interlinks and enables effortless integration across different business, application and technology layers, in line with the complete range of modelling principles. Each layer requires different models and modelling principles suited to accomplishing the specific tasks, while still having correlations and relationships with each other that have to be connected in an efficient manner.
"We are delighted to confirm that we have invited these two renowned pioneers and thought leaders in enterprise modelling and enterprise architecture to South Africa," adds Knotion's Snel. "Professor Mark von Rosing and Henrik von Scheel will be the guest speakers at our LEAD conference early next year."
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