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Tenneco: How Modern EA Boosts Efficiency and Competitiveness

Learn how a modern approach to Enterprise Architecture is empowering innovation at Tenneco. See the steps they took to establish an EA function that empowers business teams with actionable insights, rather than static diagrams.
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Tenneco & Ardoq Fireside Chat

Abby Cletus, Enterprise Architect at Tenneco discusses with Dr. Andreas Frangou (formerly of Gartner EA Research Team) the steps that the Tenneco EA team took to establish an EA function that drives business outcomes.

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State of the EA Nation

Dr. Andreas Frangou highlights challenges that EA teams face when driving application and platform modernization.

5:40

Steps to Establish an EA Practice That Works For Your Business

Abby Cletus, Enterprise Architect, introduces Tenneco's journey in establishing an EA function, the steps they anticipated taking, and the team's view on the key ingredients for success. Abby highlights how modern EA is unrecognisable from traditional approaches.

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What did Tenneco's EA Team Do First?

Abby shares the team's approach to making EA invisible and ensuring it solves business problems. Highlights include Abby's views on how EA functions can progress through four levels of maturity in six-month sprints.

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How Ardoq Underpinned Tenneco's Modern EA Approach

"EA should no longer be about building Archimates-based models. It's now about how do I quickly visualize the enterprise and give business stakeholders A-ha moments!" Abby shares how Ardoq enables Tenneco's EA team to quickly crowdsource data that gives the organization the insights needed to quickly define strategy.

Meet the Speakers

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Abby Cletus

Enterprise Architect, Tenneco

Abby is an Enterprise Architect with over 20 years of experience across manufacturing giants including Boeing, Johnson Controls, and Adient. He now drives technology strategy, governance, and automation under Enterprise Architecture at Tenneco. As an Enterprise Architect, Abby champions technology innovation and process automation, while leveraging Ardoq for strategic initiatives like ERP value stream mapping, capability modelling and future state planning. His expertise spans the adoption of new technologies for engineering, manufacturing, and plant operations, aligning those innovations with global technology implementation.

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Molly Hale

Global VP, Customer Success, Ardoq

A mission-driven leader with over 15 years experience transforming customer success organizations across B2B SaaS, energy management, and IT services, Molly excels at scaling global teams and driving operational excellence. Now serving as Global VP of Customer Success at Ardoq, she leverages her expertise from technology brands like VMware and Enel X to develop scalable customer engagement models while fostering inclusive, high-performing teams that consistently deliver strategic outcomes.

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Dr Andreas Frangou

Former Gartner Enterprise Architecture Research Team

Dr. Andreas Frangou is a freelance Enterprise Architecture (EA) Leadership and Technology Consultant with over 30 years experience in diverse industries, including Finserv, Energy, Global Logistics, and Academia. He previously served as a Senior Director on the Gartner EA research team and has held Business and IT Architecture roles at renowned companies such as M&G, Shell, and DHL. Andreas’s expertise lies in EA leadership, business and operating model change, policy and governance development, AI and GenAI adoption, technology strategy and roadmaps, technology trade-off analysis, architecture standards, tools and frameworks.