Enterprise Architecture Concepts and Management

The enterprise architecture (EA) discipline is an important set of skills and processes that improve IT decision-making and CIO effectiveness. Burton Group’s coverage of EA concepts and management explains how the same single-minded focus on improving the EA discipline that initially brought success is insufficient for future improvements.

Instead of maturity and other EA-centric measures of success, the benefits of pursuing new improvements will be measured by the degree of integration that EA has with other IT processes, and the quality of the resulting decisions that are influenced by architecture.

Burton Group addresses the following topics to illustrate outcome-oriented approach to EA in more detail:

• EA as an organizational discipline
• EA competency
• Gaining executive support for EA
• EA program startup
• EA program recalibration
• IT process integration
• EA frameworks and processes
• EA case studies
• Skills of the Enterprise Architect

This topic relates to the Enterprise Architecture (EA) - Applying planning, optimization and design disciplines to achieve business outcomes and improve the decisions influenced by architecture.

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