Best Practice Report

Rearchitect Governance For Sustainable Business Agility

August 31st, 2012
Henry Peyret, null
Henry Peyret
With contributors:
Sharyn Leaver , Alex Cullen , Randy Heffner , Mackenzie Cahill

Summary

In an era of rapid business change, IT governance is often seen as a barrier. Governance too frequently means delay, overhead, and inflexible standards and strategies leading to missed opportunities and suboptimal solutions. But while the absence of governance may mean quicker decisions, it leads to further inflexibility as complexity grows unchecked. Business-centered enterprise architecture (BCEA) provides the methods to bring agility to governance processes throughout planning, designing, and implementing business change. This report describes the key concepts and practices of BCEA that help organizations shift to greater agility in their governance.

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