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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

Strategy Driven

In this age of rapid change, we need architects who can act as mentors and bridges between project teams, between domains and between different layers of the organization, and with strong technical skills as well. It is a combination of business and technical knowledge. These roles are also considered solution architects and technicians.

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Enterprise Thinking

Coaching Tip

A new book, Paid to THINK just released by David and Lorrie Goldsmith, teaches leaders and their teams how to strategize, plan, transform through projects and dramatically enhance their global awareness while outmaneuvering competition.

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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

The factors contributing to the failure cited in the report are ones that we all too frequently have encountered when we have reviewed challenged or failed projects. What we are advocating here is a broader view of architecture ? enterprise architecture ? IT management Leadership Project management'

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

Harvard Business Review

For mature, large-scale, multinational companies, there is a virtuous cycle of efficiency improvements that frees up resources, which can then be deployed for growth and innovation projects. The biggest opportunities for these companies are simplification and horizontal integration projects. Participating in Strategy Formulation.

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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. The enterprise architecture must be driven by a customer- and market-oriented view of a constantly changing business environment. But it need not be like this.

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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. I then worked to transfer my virtual connections into the real world — ideally, at a conference or networking event. Twitter also proved to be very useful.

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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. No longer will all developers be assigned to project work.