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Enterprise Architecture
Reducing your IT costs and complexity...
IT in most modern organisations represents an important part of total spending— 5 percent or more in many industries—and its direct contribution to revenues and profits is often difficult to assess. As an unsurprising result, many CEOs and CFOs continue to squeeze their CIOs’ budgets. But finding substantial savings isn’t easy. Most smart CIOs have already reduced their costs in operations, procurement, and outside services. They’ve consolidated data centres and help desks, are virtualizing servers, optimised their procurement processes, postponed upgrades, and outsourced commodity services...and still the pressure to further reduce costs remains. By developing and using an Enterprise Architecture capability you can reduce the cost of business change and in the process simplify your IT landscape.
Building an Enterprise Architecture “culture”
We use the phrase culture because a successful EA programme starts by recognising that it’s much more than simply training some technical architects and implementing a particular method. Indeed many progressive CIOs have convinced their colleagues of the benefits of building a joint team of senior business and IT leaders to undertake EA programmes, which by combining these different skills has resulted in the delivery of a more flexible and efficient architecture, which in turn encourages support for EA in a broader audience than IT only.
