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Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

The authors demonstrate how to define your operating model—your vision of how your firm will survive and grow—and implement it through your enterprise architecture. 
By Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson
Review

This book is the contains the first usable description of the Enterprise Architecture process, value and outputs I have found, in a single volume, using jargon free language. The remainder of the book is given over to providing templates and categorisations of Target Operating Models, Enterprise Architectures, EA maturity models and evaluation methods, all based on research, case studies and quotes from executives and IT leaders interviewed by the authors. Cannot recommend highly enough.

Pamela Eachus

Summary

Does it seem you've formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm still can't get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for business execution—an IT infrastructure and digitized business processes to automate your company's core capabilities. In "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution," authors Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson show you how. The key? Make tough decisions about which processes you must execute well, then implement the IT systems needed to digitize those processes. Citing numerous companies worldwide, the authors show how constructing the right enterprise architecture enhances profitability and time to market, improves strategy execution, and even lowers IT costs. Through a clear, engaging explanation, they demonstrate how to define your operating model—your vision of how your firm will survive and grow—and implement it through your enterprise architecture. Their counterintuitive but vital message: When it comes to executing your strategy, your enterprise architecture may matter far more than your strategy itself.

Enterprise Architecture as Strategy

Hardcover
$45.00
ISBN-13: 978-1591398394
256 pp.
6.8 x 1 x 9.8 inches
August 2006

About the Authors

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Jeanne W. Ross, Director and Senior Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

MIT CISR Researcher

David C. Robertson, Professor of Technology and Strategy, IMD International

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