Driver of Strategic Agility
EA governance will make EA the driver of strategic agility it was always meant to be. By making developers think about EA at each major project milestone, EA governance will help enterprises consolidate applications, integrate data, and create a solid foundation for future development.

Bureaucratic Nightmare
It’s not enough for modelers to draw pretty pictures to put on the shelf; now they want to make the rest of us do it, too. EA governance will do little more than create paperwork and a bureaucratic morass. Instead of a bunch of rules, give developers the tools they need and then stay out of their way.

"Consistent and effective governance is essential to architectural success. It’s easy to learn the basics, but the tough stuff takes some help and incentive."

Next Issue

The average tenure of a CIO is 18-24 months, making this position one of the more tenuous in business. What started out as a way to get IT out of the back room and into the boardroom has become, to a great extent, a tightrope walk through limited budgets, significant security concerns, and pressure to show ROI.

Next month, Mark McDonald and a group of esteemed contributors will offer a new CIO agenda that is more explicit and pragmatic than just "getting close to the business." You'll be presented with many of the to-dos required to get -- and keep -- IT as a core competency in business.