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IT execs are continually challenged with aligning business needs for IT capabilities with the capabilities that IT provides. Firms employ a number of different approaches to close the gap that don't go far enough. Gaps remain between the business's desire for more innovation and IT's ability to deliver and between the business need for speed and the widespread perception that IT still moves too slow and is too expensive. Nobody wins if IT only strives for faster reaction time. Instead, IT must forge an understanding of what's important for business outcomes to craft a deliverable vision for how to enable them. This business-focused enterprise architecture (BFEA) must be championed by the CIO.

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