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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

Strategy Driven

Back in 2001, what we know today as the Agile Manifesto was born , by the hand of several American CEOs of the technology sector (software) and they decided to combine various ideas to propose an alternative to the slow working methods that were not responding to the current ones needs, before your organization and your customers.

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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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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Their structure emerged and continues to evolve without any blueprint or architectural integrity. Processes are bolted on in response to new products and services. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate. But it need not be like this.

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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. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Harvard Business Review

The digital marketplace has created a business imperative that every company be — in some way — a technology company. Marketing executives are being tasked with leveraging technology to improve customer experience, drive client growth, and meet loyalty goals. How will it fit into our existing architecture?

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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.

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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.