The Hitchhiker's Guide to Enterprise Architecture Roadmapping

by Sebastian Konkol, Wojciech Ozimek, Bartosz Kiepuszewski, Borys Stokalski

The corporate IT community has battled a few years of a bad rap. First, 1 January 2000 didn't mark the end of the world, leaving those who spent tons of money on duly Y2K preparation wondering why everybody else is still in business. Second, the Internet didn't invalidate simple economic truths -- such as the fact that throwing money on an unrealistic business model can only delay bankruptcy. And finally, the recession that invaded the global economy did to many IT investment plans what the bulldozers did to the house of Arthur Dent in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.