Although central architecture is generally effective in managing the IT infrastructure, enterprise IT architecture efforts often fail to extend their influence beyond that. A recent enterprise IT architecture (EITA) effort by a global leader in the marketing, travel, and hospitality industries spent US $12 million on service-oriented architecture (SOA) before the project was halted for lack of business ROI. This case is typical of EITA failures, which often progress as follows: The EITA effort is driven by IT management through a central IT architecture group, as discussed above.
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Jeroen van Tyn has served as enterprise IT architect, business architect, business analyst, project manager, team lead, developer, consultant and mentor on a wide variety of enterprise architecture, software development and business analysis projects for global corporations. He has led and mentored teams in industries ranging from finance, insurance and health care to manufacturing and telecommunications. Mr. van Tyn has delivered formal… Read More
Mike Rosen is a Cutter Expert and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is an accomplished architect, analyst, and technical leader with extensive experience in digital transformation, enterprise architecture, business architecture, service-oriented architecture, product strategy and development, software architecture, consulting and mentoring, distributed technologies, and industry standards. Mr. Rosen has 40 years'… Read More
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