This category contains materials related to a variety of topics that impact the integration of EA within the enterprise, such as:

• Enterprise Business & IT Strategy
• Impact of and relationship to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Integration of EA with many of the processes within your Enterprise, such as procurement, budgeting, and capital planning
• Enterprise Program Managment and Enteprise Portfolio Management

The ability to integrate EA with other processes in your enteprise is essential to long-term signication business value growth.

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  E-government Trends, Practices and Benefits

 The question for public sector organizations is no longer “Should we?” Now it is “What is the Best Way …?

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 Below are some links to the most recent award-winning government websites and other interesting e-government information:

• Government Computer News' Great dot-gov Web Sites 2009
• Digital Government Achievement Awards
• Top 15 Government Websites, July 2009 
• Web Marketing Associations WebAwards 2009 (Select "Government" for Best of Industry Category)
• Top Government Social Networking Sites

Enterprise Transformation

Looking beyond the clutter of day-to-day priorities, transformation is an ever-present and fundamental driving force for the enterprise.  High performing C-Level business executives commonly have a business vision for an enterprise that is bigger, better or different than it is today.  This vision yields a set of transformation goals such as simplification, cost reduction, increased agility, better service to customers, and improved quality, efficiency or effectiveness.   The scope can be large or small. The approach can be evolutionary or revolutionary.  The pace can be aggressive or reserved.   In all cases, the “transformed enterprise” is the systematic realization of the vision.  By embracing transformation as a core concept, IT executives use it to steadily guide their organization to the transformation target.

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Business Fit vs. Technical Fit:  The Crucible of Strategy, Architecture & Governance

(This article was also published in the 3rd Quarter 2008 issue of Architecture & Governance Magazine.)

IT leadership and EA teams struggle with how to effectively engage business leadership regarding application systems that do not adhere to architectural standards or technology strategy. A simple technique can be used to effectively illustrate when existing systems do not fit with current standards or strategic IT roadmaps, as well as provide value to a variety of other efforts.

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Podcast on Innovation

Larry was interviewed for a podcast on innovation at the GoldenGate Software User Conference, June 5, 2007.