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Governance of Enterprise Transformation and the Different Faces of Enterprise Architecture Management
Journal of Enterprise Architecture, May 2011, Vol. 7, No. 2
Today, enterprises more than ever find themselves confronted with a constant need to transform themselves to better cope with current pressures and to prepare for future opportunities and challenges. Enterprise architecture management plays a crucial role in that context. It may not only aid in shaping the future enterprise, but it may also facilitate subsequent transformation governance. Based on the perception of enterprise architecture management...
Outcomes and success factors of enterprise IT architecture management: empirical insight from the international financial services industry
European Journal of information Systems (EJIS), 2011 (20)
Within the last decades, corporate information technology (IT) environments have approached considerable degrees of complexity. As a consequence, IT has become increasingly difficult to manage resulting in high costs and poor flexibility. Today, it is generally acknowledged that the sustainability of corporate IT environments can only be ensured through a continuous and long-term management on the level of the Enterprise (IT) Architecture (EA). To address this, many firms have implemented a dedicated Enterprise (IT) Architecture Management (EAM) function...
Application Portfolio Management—An Integrated Framework and a Software Tool Evaluation Approach
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2010, Vol. 26, Article 3
Despite the growing number of organizations that have lost track of their application landscape and have suffered from a sharp increase in application portfolio complexity, a comprehensive and systematic approach to Application Portfolio Management (APM) still appears far from being adopted. To move the adoption process along, this paper develops a comprehensive framework assimilating and extending previous research and presents an APM process comprising data collection, analysis, decision-making, and optimization phases...
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EAM - Realize Benefits Using the Standards Portfolio
Architecture & Governance, 2009 (Volume 5, Issue 8)
Daniel Simon beschreibt, welchen Nutzen ein Standards Management als integraler EAM-Bestandteil verspricht. Dazu wird erläutert, wie sich ein Standards Portfolio definieren, pflegen und anwenden lässt, um diesen Nutzen zu realisieren und dauerhaft zu erhalten
Von der Geschäftsstrategie zum IT-Service (Kopie 1)
SAP Info Magazin, Jan/Feb 2007
Die richtigen Informationen zur rechten Zeit zu erhalten, ist für Unternehmen heute ein Erfolgsfaktor. Sie brauchen strategisches IT-Management, das die Zusammenhänge zwischen Zielen, Prozessen, Services und Plattformen aufzeigt. Damit kommt der IT-Governance - der Steuerung und Kontrolle durch die Unternehmensführung - eine zentrale Rolle auf dem Weg zu einer effizienten unternehmensweiten Enterprise Architecture zu.
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Der IT-Architekt baut für das Geschäft
Computerworld, März 2006
IT-Architekten stehen vor der Herausforderung, die Unternehmensstrategie reibungslos in einfach funktionierende IT-Systeme zu transformieren.
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IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture - Impact of IT cost reduction on innovation power
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The connection between Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance has been promoted regularly in recent times: by manufacturers, analysts, advisers, and also by users. Users bring to the discussion their experiences from the integration of architecture, portfolio, programs, projects and services under the roof of IT strategy and IT Governance. But what is the essence of the much quoted IT Governance Framework, in which the troika of Enterprise Architecture management, portfolio management and program and service management (see figure 7) operates? What is its raison d'etre, what value does it provide, what meaning and importance does it offer for timely IT management?
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