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How to Optimally Align IT with Your Business Processes?

Strategy Driven

Structuring business information is also referred to as enterprise architecture. How Does Enterprise Architecture Add Value? The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture. In order for enterprise architecture to be effective, a company must be agile.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

In response, many now seek agility yet simultaneously fail to address the issue of complexity and exorcise the spirits of legacy. Agility cannot be achieved without first tackling complexity. The enterprise architecture must be driven by a customer- and market-oriented view of a constantly changing business environment.

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CMOs and CIOs Need to Get Along to Make Big Data Work

Harvard Business Review

Marketing’s growing data demands of speed, availability, and agility in rapidly changing customer behaviors don’t align with IT’s modus operandi of developing and maintaining hard coded, legacy systems. The BIO must understand and translate business strategy into an IT enterprise architecture strategy and help guide technology investments.

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