EA - Enterprise Architecture or Extreme Aggravation

My colleagues and I are beginning to contextualize the findings from the recently published Enterprise Architecture survey for clients we are engaged with. Case in point is a recent note I sent out to the Enterprise Architects at a Global 500 client I am working with.

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Dear All
Some of you may have participated in the Infosys’ Enterprise Architecture Survey 2008/2009. Attached is a soft-copy of the survey findings.

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Posted by Guest Author at 07:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

We just completed our 3rd annual survey on Enterprise Architecture. The survey brought out some very exciting findings, as well as some which we see as potential gaps or blue ocean. 

One of the key findings is that participants of the survey saw Enterprise Architecture as a capability that was core to their business and inherently part of their organization's crown jewels. However, given the daunting set of activities that most Enterprise Architecture functions have to execute today, the opportunity to work with ESPs and enlist them to execute some of these activities is real. In other words, some activities (the more tactical ones), can be outsourced to a strategic vendor partner.

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Posted by Sohel Aziz at 09:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

EA has long been seen as time consuming to implement, difficult to get buy in and govern. Do organizations really have the luxury of choice? The cost of not aligning and optimizing is bringing systems to a grinding halt, not because of lack of CPU power, but dwindling funds to manage them. Very similar to the fuel crisis and need for better efficiency or alternative energy thinking, the time is ripe for efficient EA. What EA also needs is a dose of lightning up. EAlite anyone?

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Posted by Sohrab Kakalia at 09:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)

- Mohan Babu K (cross posted from the Managing Offshore IT blog)

During the past few weeks I got involved in an interesting activity: analysis and review of responses to the 2008 Enterprise Architecture survey that Infosys has been conducting annually for the past few years.
 
This year, we invited technology leaders from our client base and the global IT community to participate. 207 respondents from a cross-section of industry verticals, geographies and organizational sizes completed a web questionnaire of 24 detailed questions.  A preliminary analysis of the results indicates a few trends, including:

• Enterprise Architecture is enabling business transformation [Does this surprise me?]
• EA practices continue to mature with increasing use of metrics and processes [Again no surprises on this front]
• Outsourcing of activities focused at Enterprise Architecture is an opportunity that most EA teams have not seriously considered [Now, this is interesting]

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