Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Is Enterprise Architecture IT Centric?

At the topmost level there is (optimally) only one Mission or one Strategic Plan.  This level manages a portfolio of transformative investments, shown at the next level down, as one portfolio.  This is the level which addresses enterprise level architecture. ...Could you say this level is IT centric? Only if you are doing it wrong. You could say it is mission centric, or strategy centric or investment centric- but Information technology has no place here." () “
This debate recurs again and again as the underlying misunderstanding are never cured. Ego-centric IT Organizations who are obsessed with their own importance. They often consider IT architecture as Enterprise Architecture. If EA is the focal point of a strategy capability, IT is one of the responders to the strategy and the architecture.
EA is outcome centric designing people, process and technology to deliver stakeholder desired value.

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