Chicken and Egg

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Chicken and Egg
Posted: MAR 21, 2005 11:01:50 PM http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=3266

Enterprise Architecture must belong to an IT Emerging Technology group that has real interest from all the ’C’s.

The interesting inclusion of this practice is to have an ’IT Network Infrastructure Business Systems Manager’ belong and interface with these groups to teach business strategy and IT convergence together.

When technical groups meet cross-functional business groups, teaching begins. Architects’ step in and teach high-level thinking and process. Business Systems Managers teach process management to shore-up and encourage IT/IS specialists to think in broader terms-not only in granular functions.

Enterprise Architects’ then align their thinking to business processes and the CEO, albeit the Governance Board. CIO and CTOs belong to the Governance team. CIOs are asked more and more to think outward, concerning strategic and convergence alignments that equate well to CFOs and COOs responsibilties.

In a nut shell, these are the individuals that need direction in understanding what business they are in-core competencies, and ever-expansive excercises which the CIO/CTO bring to a Business/Governance Board.

It starts-by understanding the business units requests, the business of the enterprise and the ability to educate, soft skills included, everyone up and down, and through lateral points, while significantly calling for process alignment to eliminate and weaken, silo management (stove pipe) practices.

Lyle K’ang, MBA/IM
IT Business/CTO Consultant