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Report:EA-PMO Partnership Cultivates Innovation Opportunities

The next-generation project management office (PMO) adds to the traditional PMO skill set of managing demand, providing oversight, and ensuring compliance by innovating through new practices and...

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For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Forrester's Enterprise Reference Architecture Tool Kit: Documentation Templates

Design patterns, proven technology stacks, and well-documented application infrastructure are fundamental tools for promoting common practices in the design of business solutions. Enterprises create...

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Blog:Business Technology 2020 – Questions And Answers

What will business and technology be like in 2020 – and what’s IT’s place in this new world? This is the subject of a teleconference that James Staten and I held for our...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Playing Card Games With Business Capabilities

A Creative Approach Makes It Easy For Business Leaders To Use Business Capability Maps

Business capability maps are a versatile tool for enterprise architects. They can help architects clarify business priorities, rationalize project and application portfolios, and explain costs and...

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Report:Using Business Capability Maps To Guide Application Portfolio Rationalization

Business' Process Goals Strongly Influence Application Strategy

Most firms have application portfolios with significant redundancy — a legacy of how business needs have been funded or past merger and acquisition activity. Firms initiate application...

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Blog:Are You An Enterprise Architecture Success Story?

Some enterprise architecture programs become a key capability for the success of their business: ensuring aligned plans, shaping business transformations, or boosting the business value of IT. But...

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Blog:How To Keep Up With Reality In IT Planning

Uli Kalex from Alfabet, whom many of you know, has provided us with a guest post addressing one key fallacy which underlies much of IT’s work with their business. I hope you enjoy it and feel...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Can You Please Provide Best Practices For Managing Innovation?

Can you help me describe innovation best practices focused on technology enablers for business challenges and opportunities from a process perspective? In our context, innovation is about being...

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Report:Case Study: Discover Financial Supercharges EA Effectiveness With A Comprehensive Repository

Profile Of An InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award Winner

Enterprise architecture (EA) organizations often toil out of the limelight — helping their firms improve business-IT alignment, rationalize their application portfolio, and guide their use of...

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Report:Use Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit To Advance Your EA Program

Materials To Implement A Scalable Project Architecture Review Process

Project architecture review is an essential practice EA teams should use to advance enterprise architecture strategies. A well-designed and transparent review process provides a counterbalance to...

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Report:Forrester's Architecture Skills Assessment Tool Kit: Assessment Tool

The purpose of this assessment tool is to serve as a starting point to help managers and employees discuss the development of skills typical to various architecture roles. It works as a communication...

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Blog:Vote For Forrester's IT Forum 2011 Theme

Are you ready for Forrester's IT Forum 2011? Mark your calendars for May 25-27 in Las Vegas and June 8-10 in Barcelona — and help us design an event that is as relevant and productive...

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Report:Solution Architecture Tool Kit: Overview

This tool kit discusses the role and importance of solution architects, the solution architecture process, templates for solution architecture deliverables, and solution architecture best practices.

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Blog:Why Your Company Needs You To Attend Forrester’s Business Architecture & Process Summit

The pace of business change is accelerating. The reason why it is accelerating is the mushrooming of disruptive factors: your customers expecting anytime/everywhere access to you through their mobile...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Blog:The State Of Enterprise Architecture In 2011

To paraphrase a now-marginalized US political figure: “How you’all doing?” Every year, Forrester’s Enterprise Architecture team looks at how enterprise architecture, as a...

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Client Inquiry:Can You Please Explain Jeff Scott's EA Justification From His 2009 Report?

I would like to get an idea of how Jeff Scott created the cost savings for reuse and standards in the profit and loss (P&L) he suggested in Forrester's November 17, 2009, "The Five Essential...

For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

Report:Conceptual Architecture: Overview

A conceptual architecture is a tool that enterprise architects can use to enhance communication, provide context, and aid direction setting. Though there are many situations in which an architect...

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Blog:Forrester Is Hiring — Join Our Global Enterprise Architecture Team!

You know how technology is changing how businesses operate — how they engage with their customers, deliver products and services, and understand their markets. The...

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Report:Measure EA's Business Goals, Engagement, And Influence

Metrics: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the metrics for enterprise architecture (EA) impact of Forrester's solution for EA executives building a high-performance EA program. Developing and executing a metrics and...

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Report:Solution Architecture Tool Kit: Samples And Templates

This workbook is part of the "Solution Architecture Tool Kit" collection, a companion to the "Solution Architecture Tool Kit: Overview" PowerPoint deck. It includes samples and templates for...

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Client Inquiry:Can You Please Provide Some Examples Of Big Rules For Architecture?

Our company is relaunching our enterprise architecture function. One area of focus is "big rules" for architecture. We currently have a set of more-detailed principles, but we are looking for...

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Tool:Lenses Provide Frameworks For Strategic Analysis

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Report:The State Of EA 2010

EA's Top Focus: Overcoming Long-Standing Obstacles

Forrester's "State Of EA 2010" report shows consistent themes and incremental progress by the enterprise architecture (EA) function in most firms. EA leaders are part of senior IT management and have...

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Blog:Peter Hinssen, The New Normal, And Enterprise Architecture

You already know it. Technology is completely pervasive in our lives, and in how businesses operate. It’s pervasive in how business execs think — they know that every change they make has...

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Blog:Mastering Customer Data: The Next EA Opportunity – And Challenge

Several recent Forrester reports home in on what we call “The Age Of The Customer” in which firms must seek to become customer-obsessed to build differentiation and loyalty. Those...