Collaboration: What Does It Mean? Part I

by Mike Rosen

As enterprise architects, we often face tasks aligning business and IT. One approach to this alignment is characterized by the Parker-Benson Square Wheel. It tells us that there are two sides to this equation. IT aligns technology with the business by responding to changes in business strategy and operations. This is the traditional role of IT. But the square wheel also tells us that IT, and architecture in particular, has the ability to align the business with new opportunities based on changes in technology. Another way we often look at this is by examining IT's role in cutting costs (responsive), as compared with its role in adding value or revenue (proactive). As architects, we're always looking for those opportunities to be proactive, to add value, and to present new opportunities to the business. Today, collaborative applications present such an opportunity.

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Collaboration: What Does It Mean? Part I3 September 2008