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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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What does a healthy company look like?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Spitzer Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Jeanne Ross First-Person Plural Pronouns freedom Guy Kawasaki Inc.: When and How to use 40 Tools and Best practices for Superior Business Performance' 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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Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Harvard Business Review

This means everything from search engine ads and website optimization to building mobile apps and tools to personalize web experiences — projects that require greater technical expertise. Can IT help us integrate different tools to deliver a more seamless experience? Why is IT saying no and is there a different route to yes?

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Many of those organizations then embraced Lean for different set of tools for improvement projects, tools that helped them connect project results to key strategic measures. The manufacturer has since introduced quality techniques (" kaizen " events), as well as Lean strategy deployment methods and tools.

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IT Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Its Users

Harvard Business Review

It’s not about consumer apps being used for work, and it’s not just about enterprise apps taking on more consumer-like characteristics. The enterprise architecture of the future needs to invert traditional thinking. Some call this “consumerization of IT”, but this descriptor mostly misses to the point.

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