About
the Book
This
book is explaining, how to quantify
and manage the economic value of enterprise
architecture. Several methods, models
and techniques are described to adopt
an economic approach when dealing
with Enterprise Architecture.
The
Economic Benefits of Enterprise Architecture
Most
organisations have problems to explain
and manage the economic benefits of
Enterprise Architecture. Managers
often asked me what Enterprise Architecture
can do for me. At the same time several
Governmental organisations are adopting
Enterprise Architecture as part of
their change and E-Government initiatives.
A
holistic Enterprise Architecture approach
can deliver a lot of benefits to organisations
depending on the focus where to find
these benefits. Even so Enterprise
Architecture delivers the foundation
for Enterprise Portfolio Management,
the ultimate business driver for Enterprise
Architecture.
The
main purpose of this book is achieving
awareness at management level as well
as at enterprise architects level
about adopting an economic approach
when dealing with Enterprise Architecture
programs.
This
book explains the areas of economic
benefits of Enterprise Architecture
programs, the different views as well
as a holistic approach to show the
areas of economic benefits. Economic
methods, models and approaches are
described in short to show, how to
quantify and manage the economic benefits
of Enterprise Architecture programs
as well as how Enterprise Architecture
supports Enterprise Portfolio Management.
This
book has not the intention to be a
scientific research document, nor
a handbook to deliver solutions for
all your EA related economic issues.
The intention of the book is showing
(board) management, CxO’s, business
& IT managers, enterprise architects
and students, that they can make progress
in the determination of the economic
value of Enterprise Architecture programs
by adopting some economic methods
and defining a process of collecting
data of Enterprise Architecture effected
activities and programs.
With
the growing importance of Enterprise
Architecture at the same time, the
discussion started how to align Business
and IT on a natural way, now and in
the future and how this fits in the
overall Enterprise Portfolio. This
book is also showing that alignment
of business and technology is hard
to do, but there is hope.
This
book is giving a holistic overview
of the areas of economic benefits
of Enterprise Architecture as well
as the role, position and purpose
of Enterprise Architecture programs
in organizations as the foundation
for change in Business and IT, embraced
by Enterprise Portfolio Management.
Cost / benefit figures from public
sources are added to this book to
show the effects of economic measurement.
For the in-depth details of the described
Enterprise Architecture economic approaches
and methods, several references to
the original sources of information
are added in the chapters Terms &
Definitions, References & Bibliography
and Interested Links.
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