Thursday, June 11, 2009

Why Enterprise Architecure Matters: Surfing the Waves

Why does Enterprise Architecture matter?!

Explore how IT, the Business, and its Customers and Suppliers relate to each other within a value chain! By grouping all of these together in one big “wave of business”, it becomes clear how the IT organization resides within the business and has its own value chain of customers and suppliers.

Read more to see the effect that the “Business of IT” has on this overall “wave” and why enterprise architecture is so valuable to a company’s success

Enterprise Architecture: Time for IT to breakout!

It is time for IT to break out! Many times, the IT sector of an organization resides in its own corner of the enterprise and is rarely seen or heard from. It is time to break out of the corner! By thinking of itself as a business, IT can now serve with greater freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Find out where strategy fits in the enterprise architecture, and how strategy affects which enterprise architecture is chosen, layer by layer.

Read more on how to increase operational efficiency of your IT organization as it adapts to this “Business of IT”

Networking for Life

Networking for life is the concept that those individuals who invest time connecting and serving others have a much higher probability of achieving their goals than those who don’t. The combined energy developed from people working together is very powerful and technology is making it easier to connect.

The technology is exploding, but that is just the start. Invest in the lives of others connecting with them but also helping them achieve their goals and objectives. You future will be determined by how well you build this capability.

Read my Networking for Life Viewpoint to learn more