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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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:What Are Forrester's Recommendations Regarding Storing Technology Documentation In A Wiki?

As part of the movement to a more community-based environment, we are in the process of moving all our technical architecture information from its current site to a wiki. As we investigated movement...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build A Business Architecture Program Road Map

Road Map: The Business Architecture Playbook

Too often, business architecture (BA) programs struggle to create a clear identity for the value they can deliver and get pulled in multiple directions. Successful BA programs — th ose with...

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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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Execute On Your EA Practice Strategy

Road Map: The EA Practice Playbook

This report describes how to turn a strategy into a road map for execution and how to overcome common impediments to high-performance enterprise architecture (EA). EA programs too often get pulled in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Drive Process Innovation Using BPM Technologies, Methods, And COEs

Executive Overview: The Business Process Management Playbook

In the midst of continuous change — from technology, market, and competitive forces — businesses must become skilled at transforming and inventing new processes while improving their...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Best Practices: Implementing An EA Management Suite

Successes And Lessons Learned From Customer References

The EA management suite (EAMS) is the next step in the evolution of EA tools. Going beyond modeling and standards repositories, the EAMS addresses pragmatic EA objectives such as IT planning, road...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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

The purpose of this process guide is to provide an overview of the architecture skills assessment process and step-by-step instructions for using the assessment tool included in Forrester's...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Focus EA Strategy On Changing Business Expectations

Strategic Plan: The EA Practice Playbook

This report is designed to help enterprise architecture (EA) professionals construct a strategy to become more business-focused, strategic, and pragmatic. Many EA teams strive to be more...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

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...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Capability Maps

I read Forrester's July 20, 2011, "Eight Ways CIOs Use Capability Maps To Embed Business In The Management Of IT" report. I am interested in leveraging the concepts and techniques. Do you have sample...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forget EA Nirvana: Assessing EA Maturity

Use EA Archetypes To Assess Maturity And Align Effort With Expectations

Enterprise architecture (EA) maturity models abound. Each comes with its own opinion on EA maturity, its own system for scoring it, and a single set of beliefs on the proper role of EA within a firm....

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Create A Business Architecture Program That Helps Your Business Manage Change

Executive Overview: The Business Architecture Playbook

Strategic change initiatives are proliferating in organizations. There may be multiple programs to improve customer experience, co-existing alongside projects to reduce costs, streamline internal...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Focus EA Impact On Planning, Governance, And Innovation

This report outlines the high-level business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on building a high-performance EA practice. Describing the added...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Client Inquiry:Can You Please Provide Feedback On Potential Vision Statements For A BA Organization?

I am trying to develop a solid vision statement for our business architecture (BA) organization that is supported by our mission. The vision statement represents the future, is result-oriented, and...

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Tool:Lenses Provide Frameworks For Strategic Analysis

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Skandia's EA-Led IT Transformation

Profile Of An InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award Winner

Forrester teamed up with InfoWorld to identify five leading enterprise architecture (EA) organizations using practices that yield measurable business value. Skandia UK and International provides an...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Shifting From Rules To Guardrails

How To Ensure Sustainability In An Empowered BT Organization

Cloud computing services are designed to be directly consumed by business leaders, developers and consumers, and thus your company’s employees are bringing them into the business and using them...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit: Project Review Questionnaire — Sample Forms

This workbook contains several sample forms for capturing information about projects as part of an overall architecture review process. They represent several variations and styles and are based on a...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's EA Maturity Assessment, Q3 2011

Use this tool to periodically assess the maturity of your EA program relative to the expectations of your stakeholders and your target EA mission. The assessment results are displayed by EA archetype...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Sample Business Capability Map: Oil And Gas

Business capability maps provide a framework for capturing key characteristics of a firm's business model and core functions, which can then be used to assess business needs, understand IT costs, and...

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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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