Elevating Architecture

So, it’s needle-moving time at your organization. Select any initiative from the following list—IT, business process, financial, ecosystem—and the change or solution being contemplated and, eventually, enacted, for that initiative can’t afford to flounder along […]

Both finance and IT attempt to work toward a common goal, but rarely do they find efficiencies in cost, human resources, process, and operational effectiveness (in general). They are both equally important to each other […]

As organizations grow, it’s important that managers facilitate the professional development of their IT staff, in order to nurture the skills that employees will need to develop the business further. Perhaps more important, though, is […]

Most of us agree that we are operating our businesses in a mobile-first, always-on, customer-centric environment. Constant disruption is affecting virtually every aspect of our business and forcing us all to rethink our approach to […]

We have been through an era of enterprise architecture which focused on cutting costs, and there are still further rationalization opportunities out there. Equally, we have been through an era of transformation, and there are […]

Although its benefits are well known, enterprise architecture (EA) and its use is not always an easy sell. All too often, efforts to establish an EA program are met with resistance or, due to previous […]

Gartner’s surveys consistently report a level of maturity in enterprise architecture (EA) practices averaging about 2.3 on a 5-point scale (with the minimum already at 1.0). Many of these companies are on their third iteration […]