A First Look At Enterprise Architecture In A Flat World

May 14th, 2008

Jost Hoppermann

With contributors:

Katie Smillie , Gene Leganza , Randy Heffner , Henry Peyret

Summary

An increasing number of firms are shifting the focus of their enterprise architecture (EA) practice from a local and national approach to a more regional, multicountry, and global one. This change in focus alters the way that architects must approach the various tasks they need to perform to become successful. Forrester studied a number of scenarios that show the challenges of global EA. Our key finding? Global EA is not an entirely new set of EA disciplines. It needs to be a carefully orchestrated extension of EA's reach that allows for more local requirements and for more complex decision-making and technology challenges in global organizations.

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