Organizing for enterprise architecture success

Do you know what to expect from enterprise architecture?

This paper introduces an assessment model to help enterprise architecture (EA) stakeholders – including senior executives, business unit leaders, CIOs, IT executives and architecture professionals – build a common understanding about what enterprise architecture can do for them, and most importantly, what they should do to better exploit EA’s potential.

Increasing enterprise architecture’s impact has clear strategic benefits:

• more value from technology investments
• better IT governance and management processes
• increased business agility
• positioning for competitive advantage.

Learn in this paper about:

• achieving stakeholder agreement on how to apply enterprise architecture
• identifying initiatives where enterprise architecture is indispensable
• understanding the potential of enterprise architecture
• pitfalls most EA functions face
• an assessment model for the basic roles of EA.

A retail organization case study is included.