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Enterprise Architecture: What's In It For Me?

To Communicate EA's Value, Architects Must Relate It To Stakeholders' Goals

by Gene Leganza

Enterprise architects know that their EA programs provide significant value to their organizations. But communicating EA's value is challenging: As a strategic activity, it doesn't have the immediate impact of other IT activities, such as implementing new business capabilities through application projects, implementing new infrastructure, or fixing problems. In addition, architecture activities and deliverables can appear abstract and academic to executives constantly looking for bottom-line impact. Successful EA leaders overcome these difficulties only with well-planned and vigorously pursued marketing programs specifically designed to "sell" the value of EA to a variety of stakeholders. The key? Don't sell architecture, sell business capabilities.

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Building An Innovation Culture: Shaping Your Future With Enterprise Architecture

From: Forrester's Enterprise Architecture Forum 2008

Presented by: Mike Gilpin, Vice President, Research Director

Forrester Vice President Mike Gilpin says Enterprise Architecture professionals are in a unique position to drive innovation. In order to do so, they must manage the process via what Forrester calls an innovation pipeline.

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Enterprise Architecture professionals must create high-impact programs with strategic business inputs, enable the integration of architectural backbones and technology, and increase flexibility through the adoption of SOA but often struggle articulating the value of these efforts.

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Successful chief technology officers and Enterprise Architecture professionals from leading organizations join the Enterprise Architecture Council. Members focus on architecture governance and processes ingrained in the IT culture. Through peer insights and exchanges, Council members share best practices around defining their enterprise technology strategy, demonstrating how governance should work, understanding and leveraging emerging trends and technologies, and developing EA programs for strategic business advantage.

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