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Enterprise Architecture Strategic Planning

Thirty percent of organizations blend business with IT in strategy documents. To become one of them, you must ask the right questions and insist on some important specifics. Learn how to collaborate with business leaders to develop your EA strategic plan, adapt architectures quickly to shifts in business strategy, and measure and communicate EA's contribution to success.

Six Best Practices for Aligning Enterprise Architecture With the Business Strategy

Alignment of enterprise activities and investments is one of the primary goals of an EA program. These best practices will ensure that the EA effort is aligned with the business strategy.

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Enterprise Architecture Foundation Seminar

Shape a leaner, more agile, business-driven and competitive organization through insights and techniques you can start applying on immediately.
24-25 November 2009 | London 10-11 December 2009 | Las Vegas, NV

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The World's Most Important Gathering of CIOs and Senior IT Executives
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FEATURED VIDEO
Gartner analyst Betsy Burton discusses how Enterprise Architecture fits into overall business strategy.
WEBINAR
  • How to Use EA to Manage Costs More Strategically
  • In this session, we present a selection of EA-enabled cost optimization ideas pulled from Gartner research, while defining EA processes to support leveraging these ideas and instilling the discipline of cost management within EA more generally.
  • Download: PDF 1.14MB | WMV 58:53, 45.8MB
PODCAST
  • The Changing Face of Enterprise Architecture
  • Enterprise architecture (EA) is a constantly evolving discipline that is intended to broadly influence and support investment decisions and organizational change.
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  • Download: MP3 13:47, 12.6MB