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How to Optimally Align IT with Your Business Processes?

Strategy Driven

IT is an important subject for any organization and it becomes increasingly interwoven with business operations. Structuring business information is also referred to as enterprise architecture. How Does Enterprise Architecture Add Value? IT should be connected to a functional process in the organization.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., P&G''s Connect and Develop ) to increase velocity and quality of their new product introductions, the IT infrastructure support for this business process change is critical. Improving Operational Efficiency.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

BPM missionaries say processes and process knowledge embedded in software, an enterprise architecture, and a central process management organization sustain improvement. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.