business-IT alignment

Architects Research Society

Aug 12, 2023 · Fundamentals

The Unknown Art of Enterprise Architecture: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them

This article reflects on the often‑overlooked discipline of enterprise architecture, highlighting common mistakes such as treating EA as a purely technical function, short‑term focus, executive arrogance, and over‑reliance on outdated frameworks like TOGAF, and proposes using data‑driven, metacognitive tools to guide more valuable, lightweight, and automated architectural practices.

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The Unknown Art of Enterprise Architecture: Common Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them

DevOps

Feb 28, 2023 · R&D Management

Aligning Business and IT Goals: Designing Cross‑Functional Teams and Governance Structures

The article examines why business‑IT alignment often fails in agile transformations, describes three common organizational models, highlights the resource and role challenges of cross‑functional teams, and proposes concrete governance, role‑allocation, and unified budgeting and performance‑evaluation practices to resolve the core contradictions.

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Aligning Business and IT Goals: Designing Cross‑Functional Teams and Governance Structures