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WHY EA?
| NDS Reasons - For Creating An Enterprise Architecture | |
| • | System complexity - Organizations are spending more and more money building IT systems |
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| • | Poor business alignment - Organizations are finding it more and more difficult to keep those increasingly expensive IT systems aligned with business needs. |
| • | The bottom line- Organizations that do not have an Enterprise Architecture experience more costs, and less value. These problems have today reached a crisis point. The cost and complexity of IT systems have exponentially increased, while the chances of deriving real value from those systems have dramatically decreased, and organizations can no longer afford to ignore these problems |
| • | Expensive IT systems have become unmanageably complex and increasingly costly to maintain. |
| • | Limiting IT systems are hindering the organization's ability to respond to current, and future, market conditions in a timely and cost-effective manner. |
| • | Mission-critical information is consistently out-of-date and/or just plain wrong. |
| • | A culture of distrust between the business and technology sides of the organization. |
| Who should build an Enterprise Architecture? | |
| • | The ones who want to positively affect their organization's bottom line |
| • | The ones who’s key priorities are managing system complexity and delivering business value |
| • | The ones who are focused on maintaining or rebuilding IT's credibility in their organization |
| • | The ones who strive to promote the use of IT to maintain a competitive position in their industry |
| • | The ones who are building an enterprise-wide, mission critical, highly distributed system, will need a database architect, a solutions architect, an infrastructure architect, a business architect, and an enterprise architect |
| • | The ones who are spending too much money building IT systems that deliver inadequate business value |
| • | The ones where IT is seen as hampering business agility |
| • | The ones where there is a growing divide between their business and IT people |
| The ones who are truly committed to solving these problems, and their commitment. comes from the highest levels of the organization | |
