Best Practice Report

The State Of Business Architecture In 2011

High Interest And Great Expectations But Limited Progress Since 2008

July 6th, 2011
Jeff Scott, null
Jeff Scott
With contributors:
Alex Cullen , Kimberly Naton

Summary

Interest in business architecture (BA) has remained high over the past three years, but progress has been limited. In conducting Forrester's Q2 2011 Global Current State Of Business Architecture Online Survey, we discovered that while 100% of surveyed respondents believe that business architecture is important, only slightly more than half have an active initiative. Architects report a strong belief that business architecture is more about the business than IT and are highly optimistic in their ability to create a business architecture but at the same time struggle with capturing business leaders' interest. This report provides a detailed look at where the practice of business architecture is today and makes recommendations on how to move business architecture forward.

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