Should enterprise architects intervene early in corporate digital initiatives?

By Joe McKendrick

Jason Bloomberg, for one, suggests that it’s high time EAs were invited to the “digital party,” rather than standing outside a window, looking in and watching everybody else have all the fun. Writing in Wired, he observes that EAs tend to be detached from many corporate digital initiatives. mckendrickIt doesn’t make sense, since enterprise architecture is all about helping organizations “clarify the organizational, process, information, and technology elements or primitives that make up the enterprise in order to establish efficient approaches to coordinating them in order to better achieve the goals of the organization.”

Jason suggests a number of ways EAs need to get into the game, but for starters, he recommends a name change. The EA team should be referred to as the Center of Digital Excellence. (Or CODE — clever, huh?)

Read the entire article at http://www.zdnet.com/article/are-enterprise-architects-hosting-the-digital-party/.

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