Booz IT Foresight: Building Value through Enterprise Architecture

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http://www.booz.com/global/home/what_we_do/services/it/IT-Foresight/it_foresight-article/itfs-00007?pg=all

Executive Summary
The economic crisis has taughtorganizations a critical lesson: Only by focusing on long-term valuecan they ensure their survival during difficult times—and be ready tochange when the opportunity or the need arises. Among the capabilitiesrequired to create value now and in the long term, we believe, isEnterprise Architecture (EA)—the process of aligning an enterprise’sstructure and operations, including business functions, processes, andinformation systems, with its business goals and strategic direction.

Yet questions remain concerning the valueof EA: Does investment in EA really deliver value to the business? Ifso, what types of value are being realized? What are successfulorganizations doing to capture value from EA, and what are the greatestchallenges to an effective EA? What are the most important actions thatcompanies should take to develop their EA capabilities? And how can EAbe used in the short term and the longer term, given the challenges inthe economic climate?
To answer these questions, Booz &Company recently completed a global Enterprise Architecture study, inwhich we surveyed EA practitioners and key business representatives atmore than 60 organizations in the financial services and governmentsectors around the globe. The results are revealing: No matter howmature their EA efforts were, respondents at every organization wesurveyed saw EA as a key capability for building long-term businessvalue, and all of them are continuing to invest in EA. Furthermore, wefound a strong correlation between the maturity of a company’s EAefforts and the amount of value captured through the process.

张琨

1.Booz和Allan Hamiton分家了？

2.EA的方法论是通用的，虽然有不同的表达方式。这也是在我们的项目中最常使用的工具之一。

3.EA等各种工具很大的价值我感觉是帮助你结构化你的分析，从一些琐碎的信息从中发现深刻的观点，结构化你的表达，把错综复杂的关系用比较逻辑的方式表达出来...具体方法论产生的价值根据顾问的经验每个人每次使用都会不同的。因此没有最好的工具，只有恰当的使用方式。