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An Overview: Agile and Enterprise Architecture

Strategy Driven

The roles of Agile architecture distinguish the responsibilities between the architect company, the architect of solutions and systems architect. In practice, it means: Enterprise Architects (EA ) are the bridge between product portfolio management and the high-level vision of enterprise solutions and initiatives under development.

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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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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

This mansion is renowned for its size, its architectural curiosities, and its lack of any master building plan. It is, unfortunately, also a great analogy for how many organizations have constructed their IT systems. Their structure emerged and continues to evolve without any blueprint or architectural integrity.

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

Harvard Business Review

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., A second new component of the IT function should be dedicated to this category of work: the Enterprise Integration Group (EIG). Additional challenges come from "localization" requirements in many countries.

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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. But the company doesn’t see the bots lasting long.

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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million. What we are advocating here is a broader view of architecture ? enterprise architecture ? hedge funds.

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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. Yet marketing and IT executives often don’t speak the same language or understand each other’s goals or roadmaps.