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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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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. The result is different data definitions, inconsistent business logics, multiple workarounds, unrealized synergies, redundancy, re-invention rather than re-use, and a myriad of different technologies. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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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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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

What we are advocating here is a broader view of architecture ? enterprise architecture ? that has both organizational and technological components. The CEO is accountable for ensuring that there is an overall enterprise architecture. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Share Your Own Job-Search Story

Harvard Business Review

The Indian job market was growing significantly because of an influx of positions in the technology sector. My strategy worked well, and I eventually found a position at Tata Consultancy Services , a leading multinational information technology firm. The challenge was to find the best opportunity first.