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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

Strategy Driven

How does Agile architecture add value to the business? In this article we are going to see how architecture is changing in practice. Agile architecture is based on the 360 ??customer Agile architecture features in practice.

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The CIO Paradox: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Robertson enterprise architecture Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Future of the CIO Role Futurist versus Archivist Harvard Business Review Press How to become a CIO "for all seasons" IT and Business Paradox Jeanne W.

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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. For the IT architecture to be effective, it should be between centralized and decentralized. The Importance of Enterprise Architecture.

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The Executive Checklist: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Spitzer Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Harvard School of Public Health James M. The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change James M. Kerr Pagrave/Macmillan (2014) How to replace vague ideas about your career with strategies that will help you achieve your objectives at work and everywhere else Up front, I wish to acknowledge my gratitude to Atul Gwande for the excellent material he provides […].

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“Which business books should every executive keep near at hand?”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Hallowell MD Enterprise Architecture As Strategy Guy Kawasaki Harvard Business Review’s 10 Must Reads: Essentials jason jennings Jeanne W. Soon most of us will be exchanging holiday gifts and perhaps you’ll be asked what you would like to receive. Why not suggest some business books? In my opinion, whether as a gift from someone else or one you give yourself, these ten are among the essentials, listed in title alpha order: Beyond Performance: How [.].

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What does a healthy company look like?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Spitzer Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Jeanne Ross First-Person Plural Pronouns freedom Guy Kawasaki Inc.:

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The Ten Most Important Business Challenges and Which Book to Consult for Each

First Friday Book Synopsis

Posner Bill Conaty Carmine Gallo Customer Relationship Management: Joseph Michelli's The New Gold Standard Dean Spitzer Enterprise Architecture As Strategy George B. Whenever asked to recommend business books, I immediately inquire, “What is the single greatest challenge that you and your organization now face?” ” Of course, responses vary but over time, these seem to be the ten challenges most frequently cited, followed by the book(s) I think will be most helpful.

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Change the Culture, Change the Game: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

producing the right results in the right way Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Five Principles of Full Enrollment James O’Toole “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” Jeanne W.

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Army of Entrepreneurs: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob's blog entries AMACOM AOE Army of Entrepreneurs: Create an Engaged and Empowered Workforce for Exceptional Business Growth “Vision without execution is hallucination” “Six Steps Forward” Brian Carney David Robertson Dean Spitzer Emerson Electric Enterprise Architecture As Strategy Erika Andersen Ernst & Young General Electric Growing Great Employees How to grow great gardeners IBM Inc.

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Norton David Robertson Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Erik Brynjolfsson Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Henry Chesbrough How to use technology effectively to support your organization’s strategy Jeanne W.

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Strategic Intuition: A book review by Bob Morris

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Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement William Duggan Columbia University Press (2007) How and why “a modern discipline” can activate “flashes of insight” in a results-driven organization There is much to be said for eliminating waste throughout an enterprise without transforming it completely, at all levels and in all areas.

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Doing Both: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Doing Both: Capturing Today’s Profit and Driving Tomorrow’s Growth Inder Sidhu FT Press/Pearson Organizational transformation is not — repeat not – a zero-sum game One of the most self-defeating mindsets is suggested by the admonition, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.&# Obviously there are situations when there are two options that are [.].

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Enterprise Thinking

Coaching Tip

Enterprise Thinking is the concept of rethinking the role and value of leadership within organizations. That's why it's important to have the Enterprise Thinking resources you need to make your best decisions from one day to the next. It represents a new slant on what leaders should be doing every day. It's not based on getting people and leaders to do more. Rather, it teaches them how to be more.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

This mansion is renowned for its size, its architectural curiosities, and its lack of any master building plan. Their structure emerged and continues to evolve without any blueprint or architectural integrity. The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA)—creating and adhering to an overarching plan for building IT systems—has been around for some time.

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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

The CEO’s first accountability is to clearly and regularly communicate what constitutes value for the enterprise and the strategic objectives to which all investments must contribute and against which their performance will be measured. This is the architecture question. Because this question is usually thought of as relating to technical architecture, it is generally considered by CEOs as a technical issue and the domain of the CIO. enterprise architecture ?

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

Harvard Business Review

online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise. A second new component of the IT function should be dedicated to this category of work: the Enterprise Integration Group (EIG). EIG is responsible for enterprise architecture, the center of expertise for simplification and integration methods, process and program management.

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Share Your Own Job-Search Story

Harvard Business Review

Many LinkedIn groups, like The Enterprise Architecture Network and the Project Management Institute (PMI) , organize networking events for their members. This blog post comes to us from one of our Facebook fans , Unnikrishnan Alungal. We contacted him after reading his insightful contribution to our jobs-related group discussion. In the post below, Unnikrishnan shares his experiences searching for an IT consultant position in the Indian and Saudi Arabian job markets.

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3 Ways to Get More Value from Automation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PWC’s Strategy&

Harvard Business Review

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step. Typically they end up as an app or a custom feature in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.

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Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Harvard Business Review

This means that IT departments are being pulled out of their traditional “gate keeper” role of protecting the core technology infrastructure to collaborate across the enterprise to drive business outcomes. One of the common divides is that the former is focused on adopting the latest technologies, while the latter is focused on governance, security, and enterprise architecture. How will it fit into our existing architecture?

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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. Shell Oil's downstream (refining and retail) businesses have rolled out a global implementation of enterprise software SAP with standard global processes (as the missionaries of BPM would preach). He is currently conducting research with the Lean Enterprise Institute.

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IT Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Its Users

Harvard Business Review

The history of enterprise technology has been fairly unforgiving to the people intended to use it. For the past half-century, most information technology models propagated two unassailable truths: that enterprise technology was purchased by a select few , and the technology was bought for the company. During these decades, IT organizations retained nearly complete control of the technology architecture, and with little to challenge them.

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

Harvard Business Review

The BIO must understand and translate business strategy into an IT enterprise architecture strategy and help guide technology investments. A global telecoms company recently decided to do what many companies are doing: figure out how to turn big data into big profits. They put together a preliminary budget and an RFP that asked vendors to take the data the company had — customer call and payments behavior, online searches, social network activity, billing, etc.

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