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	August 1, 2008 Best Practices: Improving EA Effectiveness Customer Focus, EA Skills, And Delivering Value Are Key by Jeff Scott with Gene Leganza, Katie Smillie, Kahini Ranade	Average: 9  (4 ratings)

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Executive Summary

Creating an effective enterprise architecture (EA) practice is challenging and frequently elusive for EA teams. Architecture initiatives require broad organizational support just to get started and, once started, often have long investment cycles. Small budgets, technical complexity, organizational momentum, personal preferences, and expectations of quick returns are just some of the hurdles EA leaders must overcome. We found that EA teams that focus on adding value in real time gain higher levels of organizational support and produce more business impact than those that focus on architectural purity and future benefits. These successful teams exhibit a strong external focus on stakeholder alignment coupled with an internal focus on team development, which creates a powerful foundation for value delivery.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• EA Practices Are Maturing Slowly
• EA Effectiveness Best Demonstrated Practices
• Best Practice No. 1: Tightly Align EA Strategies With Business And IT Goals
• Best Practice No. 2: Focus On Value
• Best Practice No. 3: Continuously Improve Team Skills
• Best Practice No. 4: Create Consumer-Centric Artifacts
• Best Practice No. 5: Proactively Manage Relationships
• Forrester's EA Effectiveness Next Practices
• Identifying Your Challenges
• Case Studies
• Supplemental Material
• Related Research Documents

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