Product Description: Enterprise architecture defines a firm’s needs for standardized tasks, job roles, systems, infrastructure, and data in core business processes. Thus, it helps a company to articulate how it will compete in a digital economy and it guides managers’ daily decisions to realize their vision of success. This book clearly explains enterprise architecture’s vital role in enabling—or constraining—the execution of business strategy. The book provides clear frameworks, thoughtful case examples, and a proven-effective structured process for designing and implementing effective enterprise architectures.
Well deserved 5 stars The book is really great and deserves 5 stars.
I am an Application Architect working for one of the biggest financial companies in the world and we are using this book as a starting point for improving our Enterprise Architecture.
I whish this book was thicker or maybe had a second volume.
Excellent Well, I had some problem with the shipping. The first book was lost. But Amazon was able to send me rapidly a new one. It's arrived perfectly on time, sane and safe. It's a very good book with contents and suggestions
Excellent review of important new area of business strategy "The IT strategists at MIT CISR present an exceptionally clear and well constructed book, Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution. It extends Jeanne Ross' earlier work in IT Governance by bringing the emerging concepts of Enterprise Architecture out of the rarefied domain of IT theory into the realm of general business strategy."
Good book to understand Enterprise Architectire Strategy The book is very practical and analytical for Enterprise Architecture. It is a handbook for professionals working in EA. Must Read...
solid foundation for BPA and Software landscape connection People who have been involved in Business Transformation and ERP implementation often get disconnected from the business itself. The IT implementation often happens in a silo where SOA means software service. This book provides you with the foundation of business process architecture methods and guidelines which help you develop the lower level architectures of data, software etc. It clearly talks about the various business strategies like diversification, unification with real life examples and then drives the data architecture from the BPA. I am actually close to couple of those architecture and quite fascinated to see the accuracy of the book. Some of the companies I have worked with tend to jump into the software architecture before anything else and every executive with a pen and a paper or a visio envisions themselves to be the greatest software architect on earth. So in most cases we end up with a software solution that does not have a sound business strategy to support it. This book provides the tools and methods to develop that business strategy which can be aligned to the software landscape. One area I think needed a little more emphasis is EDM or Enterprise Data Management. I believe with web2.0 and web based collaboration - the large monolithic solutions with go away and we will get more flexible modular solution - integration will be at the data level and not at the application level
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