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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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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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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. Kerr Jørgen Vig Knudstorp and his leadership team Jeanne W. Bob''s blog entries Atul Gwande David Robertson Dean R.

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Enterprise Thinking

Coaching Tip

Enterprise Thinking is the concept of rethinking the role and value of leadership within organizations. John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership (ebook formats $2.99) John G. Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership: Self Coaching Secrets (Paperback Edition at $28.99). It's not based on getting people and leaders to do more.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA)—creating and adhering to an overarching plan for building IT systems—has been around for some time. Enterprise leadership—a view of the business beyond optimizing functional silos between business functions and across support functions—is a must.

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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

It was beset by destabilizing changes to leadership, a lack of appropriate capability, poor coordination, over-complexity, underdeveloped plans in continual flux, and poor budgeting. What we are advocating here is a broader view of architecture ? enterprise architecture ? IT management Leadership Project management'

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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. Overcommunication should be mandated between both teams and modeled by senior leadership. Overcommunicate.