Ebook: From Enterprise Architecture to IT Governance: Elements of Effective IT Management

This book shows its readers how to achieve the goal of genuine IT governance. The key here is the successful development of enterprise architecture as the necessary foundation. With its capacity to span and integrate business procedures, IT applications and IT infrastructure, enterprise architecture opens these areas up to analysis and makes them rich sources of critical data. Enterprise architecture thereby rises to the status of a crucial management information system for the CIO. The focused analysis of the architecture (its current and future states) illuminates the path to concrete IT development planning and the cost-effective and beneficial deployment of IT.
Profit from the author's firsthand experience - proven approaches firmly based in enterprise reality.

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This book shows its readers how to achieve the goal of genuine IT governance. The key here is the successful development of enterprise architecture as the necessary foundation. With its capacity to span and integrate business procedures, IT applications and IT infrastructure, enterprise architecture opens these areas up to analysis and makes them rich sources of critical data. Enterprise architecture thereby rises to the status of a crucial management information system for the CIO. The focused analysis of the architecture (its current and future states) illuminates the path to concrete IT development planning and the cost-effective and beneficial deployment of IT.
Profit from the author's firsthand experience - proven approaches firmly based in enterprise reality.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introduction: When Things Just Work....Pages 1-12
Foundations: Finding the Starting Point....Pages 13-41
Goals: Doing the Right Things Right....Pages 43-73
Documentation: Structuring Enterprise Architecture....Pages 75-121
Analysis: Evaluating Enterprise Architecture....Pages 123-152
Planning: Creating Enterprise Architecture....Pages 153-166
Implementation: Developing Enterprise Architecture....Pages 167-194
Safeguarding: Controlling Enterprise Architecture Development....Pages 195-209
Conclusion: Finding the Right Course....Pages 211-217
Back Matter....Pages 219-232

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This book shows its readers how to achieve the goal of genuine IT governance. The key here is the successful development of enterprise architecture as the necessary foundation. With its capacity to span and integrate business procedures, IT applications and IT infrastructure, enterprise architecture opens these areas up to analysis and makes them rich sources of critical data. Enterprise architecture thereby rises to the status of a crucial management information system for the CIO. The focused analysis of the architecture (its current and future states) illuminates the path to concrete IT development planning and the cost-effective and beneficial deployment of IT.
Profit from the author's firsthand experience - proven approaches firmly based in enterprise reality.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introduction: When Things Just Work....Pages 1-12
Foundations: Finding the Starting Point....Pages 13-41
Goals: Doing the Right Things Right....Pages 43-73
Documentation: Structuring Enterprise Architecture....Pages 75-121
Analysis: Evaluating Enterprise Architecture....Pages 123-152
Planning: Creating Enterprise Architecture....Pages 153-166
Implementation: Developing Enterprise Architecture....Pages 167-194
Safeguarding: Controlling Enterprise Architecture Development....Pages 195-209
Conclusion: Finding the Right Course....Pages 211-217
Back Matter....Pages 219-232
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