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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:So, You Need To Create An EA Assessment Model? Five Tips To Speed Things Up

I receive a lot of inquiries from clients about an EA maturity/assessment model. It’s proven to be a common and excellent way to track EA’s progress and influence plans — so common...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:It Doesn't Matter Where EA Lives — So Let's Stop Arguing About It

George Colony, our CEO, just released a post on his blog about enterprise architecture, aptly enough named “Enterprise Architects For Dummies (CEOs).” I retweeted the post to my followers...

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Report:Focus Your Information Strategy On Business Impact

Executive Overview: The Information Strategy And Architecture Playbook

Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals face the challenge of burgeoning business interest in maximizing the potential of new and existing information assets in the face of immature information...

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Discussion:Focus EA Strategy On Changing Business Expectations

Discussion:Define The Shifting Responsibilities Of The Information Architect

Good summary. Very helpful for getting beyond the central EDW and Data Steward thinking that has predominated for the past decade.

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Blog:Data Quality Reboot Series For Big Data: Part 4 Big Data Governance

There was lots of feedback on the last blog (“Risk Data, Risky Business?”) that clearly indicates the divide between definitions in trust and quality. It is a great jumping off point for...

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Blog:2012 EA Award Winners — Where Are They Now?

The InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Awards recognize excellent EA programs — ones that due to their business focus, and strategic yet pragmatic orientation, provide sustained value...

Discussion:Develop Business-Focused And Strategic EA Organizations

Discussion:Is data governance a buzz kill for big data?

I recently posted on the need to rethink data governance when it comes to big data.  Data governance is being circumvented by big data intitiatives due to the perception that it is too cumbersome and...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:What is wrong with application rationalization?

Lots of organizations I speak with are undertaking rationalization and simplification of application portfolios - some successfully, some less so.  I think that the key difference between...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Pivot Your Data Strategy And Architecture To Unleash Business Transformation

Assessment: The Data Management Playbook

Enterprise architects who drive data management strategy must contend with new data source platforms and complex consumption and analysis scenarios. Current data management systems were built as...

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Discussion:Build Your Skills Development Road Map For Achieving BPM Excellence

Discussion:The Forrester Wave

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:5-Years Journey Of TOGAF In China Is Just A Beginning For EA

As businesses get larger, and the need for effective alignment of the business with technology capabilities grows, enterprise architecture becomes an essential competency. But in China, many CIOs are...

Discussion:Do you have BI on your BI environment?

BI is used to build, report and analyze business performance metrics and indicators. What about measuring the performance of BI itself? How do you know if you have a well performing, highly used BI...

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Report:Justify The Value Of Achieving Sustainable Business Agility

Business Impact: The EA Method Playbook

This report outlines the business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives who want to enhance their current EA method to address both agility and costs at the same...

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Report:Organize Your Business Architecture To Deliver Your Strategy

Organization: The Business Architecture Playbook

This report assists business architecture (BA) leaders in organizing the BA roles and skills needed to successfully execute a business architecture program. One of the major challenges facing...

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Discussion:Synergies Across Silos: Approaches To Governing Structured And Unstructured Information

Will a recording of this webinar be available?

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Playbook:The EA Method Playbook

Develop A Business-Centered Enterprise Architecture That Boosts Agility

Faced with continuous change — from technology innovations, new markets, and competitive shifts — businesses must become more agile. Sustainable business agility, the ability to...

Discussion:Technology Standards Toolkit

Wanted to post a bit more info on this - the prelminary results of our state of EA survey are in. In it we asked the question:"Considering  the structure and content of your EA program itself, please...

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Report:Cut Through Silos With An Agile Technology Introduction Strategy

To succeed in the digital age, enterprise architects must seize opportunities by adopting new approaches for emerging technolgy introduction. This report highlights the technology introduction and...

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Report:Build The Case For Emerging Technology

Business Case: The Emerging Technology Playbook

The business appetite for new technology to fuel innovation, generate growth, engage with customers, and create differentiation is insatiable. According to our survey data, however, your business is...

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Discussion:Promote EA Agility And Build Trust

Brian - This research provides a pragmatic framework that will help organizations advance their IT architecture. Well done.

Discussion:Let The Adjacent Possible Guide Your Information Strategy

If the purpose of this document is to provide a flight plan for effective Information Architecture strategy, then I think that objective has been surpassed. A better analogy is "auto-pilot"! ...

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Report:The State Of EA 2013: Information And Business Architecture Take Hold; New Hardships Arise

Landscape: The EA Practice Playbook

Since 2009, Forrester's global state of enterprise architecture (EA) online survey has tracked the trends, priorities, and challenges of the EA practice. In our latest survey, the scale of EA value...

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