Enterprise Architects

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What Is Architecture?

Having architecture in place is critical to the survival and success of the modern business.  It provides CTOs, CIOs and CAOs (Chief Architecture Officer – a new and common term recently being adopted), with a practical and comprehensive method and set of tools to create and maintain control over the development and evolution of their information architecture, as a true support to the business goals and drivers.

We have often come across companies and organisations seeking to gain a common Enterprise Architecture framework across their departments enabling key architects to gain a holistic view of the business. TOGAF™ provides the necessary framework and methodology to provide a substantial element of that requirement.

TOGAF™ is also highly applicable when we come across the desire for processes to be mapped and “connected”, information to be transparent and “shared”, and for assets to be known and “reused”.

Typical reasons for adopting the “architectural” approach:

• Increased organisational complexity due to mergers, acquisitions, takeovers, internet, e-business or even outsourcing
• IT appears to have become too expensive or costs have escalated or cannot be controlled
• Customer Services levels have dropped or cannot be maintained
• Business is not being properly supported by IT leading to loss of competitive edge – an impact felt severely when business innovations “time-to-market” is heavily extended
• Lack of IT clarity regarding business change