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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

Strategy Driven

The goal was to improve quality, productivity, engagement, and be fast. As you can see, it is a methodology that aims to modify many of the internal processes of organizations to improve performance and productivity. How does Agile architecture add value to the business? Agile architecture features in practice.

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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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Enterprise Thinking

Coaching Tip

Just as enterprise integration and enterprise architecture are used by IT professionals to technicalogically integrate all the tentacles of organizations for greater efficiencies and better outcomes, think of Enterprise Thinking as the leader's mental arsenal to accomplish the same. Forecasting: Forecasting the future.

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

Harvard Business Review

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Generating Top-Line Growth. Improving Operational Efficiency.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

Their structure emerged and continues to evolve without any blueprint or architectural integrity. Processes are bolted on in response to new products and services. 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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Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Harvard Business Review

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. All too often marketing will outline a vision for a new initiative and then pull in IT to create the end product. Align your vision.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Followers of Lean, which is based on the Toyota manufacturing approach that made it the leader in automobile quality ( the Toyota Production System ), believe top executives need to break down strategic objectives into implications for process improvements to get everyone moving in the same direction.