Strategy & Operating Model - Blueprints

Define Your Cloud Vision

This blueprint reviews the characteristics, pros, and cons of cloud services, helping readers understand when to employ software-, platform-, and...
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Make IT a Partner in Successful M&A Due Diligence

Even though IT-related activities can be the larget cost item in an M&A, many organizations continue to underestimate the role IT plays in successfully executing a merger...
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Map Your Business Architecture to Define Your Strategy

Business architecture provides a holistic and unified view of the organization’s activities that provide value to their clients and the of the resources that make those...

Implement a New IT Organizational Structure

Managing organizational design (OD) changes effectively is critical to maintaining IT service levels and retaining top talent throughout a restructure. Yet many...
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Create a Game Plan to Implement Cloud Backup the Right Way

The cloud isn’t a magic bullet for backups. Build a strategy that fits your needs and mitigates critical cloud challenges.
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Effectively Acquire Infrastructure Services

Most organizations are good at procuring IT products, but few are truly good at acquiring infrastructure services. According to an Info-Tech survey, approximately 42% of...
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Select an EA Tool Based on Business and User Need

Maturing EA practices for complex environments requires an EA tool with the capabilities to enable quicker time to business insights while providing simplicity in design...
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Agile Enterprise Architecture Operating Model

Use this blueprint to define operating model design principles, design your EA operating structure, and implement your EA operating model.
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Create Stakeholder-Centric Architecture Governance

Traditional enterprise architecture management (EAM) addresses only the IT function – 10% of an organization and not the other 90%. This research presents another...

Create a Right-Sized Enterprise Architecture Governance Framework

Rarely do organizations get the EA governance framework right and EA governance is often perceived as an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy because business benefits are...
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