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From Jeffrey Blake - Web+Cloud+Strategy
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Business Technology Strategy
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What You Know
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What You Do
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What You Are
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- Your organization’s business and technology strategy and rationale
- Your competition (products, strategies and Processes)
- Your company’s business practices
- Your Technology Portfolio
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- Influence business strategy
- Translate business strategy into technical vision and strategy
- Understand customer and market trends
- Capture customer, organizational and business requirements of architecture
- Prepare architectural documents and presentations
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- Visionary
- Entrepreneurial
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Organizational Politics
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What You Know
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What You Do
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What You Are
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- Who the key players are in the organization
- What they want, both business and personal
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- Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
- Listen, network and influence
- Sell the Vision, keep the vision alive
- Take and retake the pulse of all critical influencers of the architecture project
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- Able to see from and sell to multiple viewpoints
- Confident and articulate
- Ambitious and driven
- Patient and not
- Resilient
- Sensitive to where the power is and how it flows in your organization
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Consulting
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What You Know
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What You Do
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What You Are
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- Elicitation techniques
- Consulting frameworks
- Soft Skill techniques
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- Build “trusted advisor” relationships
- Understand what the business people want and need from the architecture
- Understand what the developers want and need from the architecture
- Help developers see the value of the enterprise architecture and understand how to use the technology successfully
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- Committed to others’ success
- Empathetic and approachable
- An effective change agent and process savvy
- A good mentor and teacher
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Leadership
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What You Know
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What You Do
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What You Are
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- Set team context and vision
- Make decisions stickp>
- Build teams
- Motivate
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- You and others see you as a leader
- Charismatic and credible
- You believe it can an should be done and that you can lead the effort
- Committed, dedicated, passionate
- You see the entire effort in a broader business and personal context
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Technology
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What You Know
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What You Do
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What You Are
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- In-depth understanding of the domain and pertinent technologies
- Understand what technical issues are key to success
- Development of methods and modeling techniques
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- Modeling
- Trade-off Analysis
- Prototype, Experiment, and Simulate
- Prepare architectural documents and presentations
- Technology trend analysis/roadmaps<
- Take a systems viewpoint
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- Creative
- Investigative, Practical, Pragmatic, and Insightful
- Tolerant of ambiguity, willing to backtrack, seek multiple solutions
- Good a working at an abstract level
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Risks and Rewards
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Risks
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Rewards
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- Responsibility without corresponding control
- A lot of resistance and disappointments along the way
- Often encounter others that believe they have a better idea or solution
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- Focus on interesting and complex issues
- Opportunity to advance to very high levels in the organization with business and technical focus (rather than personal and fiscal)
- Opportunity to make an enormous difference to the company and clients
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Source: IFEAD
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