Article Z - Maturity of the firm & IT engagement (Ross&Weill) - EA Maturity stage 1 Business Silo's
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What is the first stage of EA maturity?
- Divisions / departments:
- responsible for their own ways of working
- and accountable for own results
- Role of IT:
- Automate specific business processes
- Business managers decide business process design
- Focus of IT investments:
- delivering solutions for local business problems and opportunities
- Justification is local business case, usually cost reduction
What is the result of the Corporate networks & Infrastructure services of corporates that are in stage 1 of EA maturity?
- High design debt
How does the alignment processes flow in stage 1 of EA maturity?
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- Case example: ING Group
- Large multinational, result of mergers and acquisitions
- Silo per affiliate, including infrastructure level
- Some divisions quite mature in architectural practices
- An EA-initiative of Corporate IT in 2001 was named “Coherence of Things”
What was the result of this case?
- Large multinational, result of mergers and acquisitions
- Silo per affiliate, including infrastructure level
- Some divisions quite mature in architectural practices
- Resulted in a Corporate EA Framework
- Definitions of EA products
- Mapping of EA processes, EA organization and EA governance
- Purpose: find comparable architectures, learn, share, co-create
What is the value of EA on level 1 of EA maturity?
- Focus on creating insight & oversight in
- Portfolio of applications
- Portfolio of IT competences
- Support the learning, reuse and co-development of systems
- Behavioral guidelines
- Respect the total accountability of the divisions
- Help divisions to create success
What are the five stages of EA maturity?
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