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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

Strategy Driven

Agile architecture is based on the 360 ??customer customer vision as the core of any digital design and strategy. Enterprise-level architecture supports the strategic themes and portfolio vision by understanding the portfolio backlog, product vision, and roadmap.

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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

The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change James M. Spitzer Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Harvard School of Public Health James M. Bob''s blog entries Atul Gwande David Robertson Dean R.

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What does a healthy company look like?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries and Outmarketing Your Competition Beyond Performance Management: Why Brian M. Spitzer Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Jeanne Ross First-Person Plural Pronouns freedom Guy Kawasaki Inc.: Carney David Robertson Dean R.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. Participating in Strategy Formulation.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

IT applications to support local or functional strategies and initiatives are provisioned directly from the cloud, often without the knowledge of the IT department. 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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