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Building An EA Program For "Dummies"
As businesses begin to look past the economic downturn, they are executing strategies that require a changed IT mission and plan. This in turn is changing the needs and expectations the EA function...
There are interesting debates all around the globe about whether there is the need for a next gen EA framework. James Lapalme recently published an excellent article: Three Schools of...
An Empowered Document: Your Collaboration Strategy Should Be People-Centric, Not Tech-Centric
Technology is diffusing throughout your business, and traditional means of IT oversight have become less effective in this age of empowered HEROes. Enterprise architects (EAs) should use new means of...

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...

EA teams like to know how mature their EA practice is. There are a lot of EA maturity models out there. You will find some of these assessments and maturity models discussed in a 2009...
Apply Business Architecture Techniques To The Business Of IT
IT's implementation of process improvement frameworks such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), project portfolio management (PPM), and the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI's) Capability...
My colleagues Ted Schadler and Josh Bernoff are preparing the launch of their coauthored new book, Empowered, after the success of Josh Bernoff’s Groundswell. Basically, Empowered’s...
As Forrester’s EA tools analyst specialist, I am regularly receiving inquiries from EA teams that are encountering trouble choosing the "single repository of truth" for the entire enterprise....
Business pressures have forced IT management to begin applying formal management disciplines to the delivery of IT services. In the past decade we have seen the rise of portfolio and project...
A challenging trend for enterprise architecture teams is extending their influence across the enterprise, and a prerequisite for achieving this influence is a deep understanding of "what's going on...
A Profile Of One Of The Winners Of The InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award
EA organizations often toil out of the limelight, working with their firms to improve business-IT alignment, rationalize the application portfolio, and guide technology use. Forrester teamed up with...
It has been almost three years since ITIL v3 was released, superseding v2. While v3 has overtaken v2 in terms of overall adoption, most IT shops are still struggling to adopt v3's new service...
Executive Overview: The EA Method Playbook
Faced with continuous change — from technology innovations, new markets, and competitive shifts — businesses must become more agile. Sustainable business agility, the ability to...

Business process analysis (BPA) began as a separate market run by vendors that developed specialized tools, but a combination of forces is buffeting these vendors: Their markets withered during the...
Rob Karel and I (thanks to Rob) recently published the second document in a series on metadata, Best Practices: Establish Your Metadata Plan, after a document about metadata strategy. This...
Enterprise architects I talk with are struggling with the pace of change in their business. We all know the pace of change in business, and in the technology which shapes and supports our business,...
Business Services Unify Portfolios And Help Firms Manage Business Change
Business capability maps are an excellent conceptual tool for planning and assessment. But your business runs on the physical implementation of people, process, information, and technology, and while...
Mega International, Troux Technologies, Software AG, And Alfabet Lead This Upcoming Category
Forrester evaluated 10 of the leading enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) vendors across 89 criteria and found that Mega International (Mega), Troux Technologies, Software AG, and alfabet...
Agree On Agility Objectives With Business Units
Since Forrester published the original version of this report in 2007, few firms have adopted a strict definition of agility. Given the recent uncertainty, CEOs are talking even more about agility,...
Five Pragmatic Practices To Improve EA Value Throughout The M&A Process
A new wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is happening, and contrary to previous M&A periods in which IT was only tactically involved, organizations now draw IT into their plans for cost savings...
Performance Management: The EA Method Playbook
A good enterprise architecture (EA) methodology focuses on business outcomes. Forrester's EA method addresses both business outcomes and business agility, starting with how the business plans to how...

A Third Generation Of Tools Addresses Broader IT Management Needs
The EA tools market is transitioning to offer a new generation of products. As EA teams extend their scope, they are looking for tools that help them with their strategic objectives and engage a...