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Nearly 70% of CIOs today are focused on developing IT strategies to accelerate business goals, according to the latest CIO Magazine’s annual “State of the CIO” survey.  Yet, with a still skittish economy, mounting global c…

In this Webinar Troux Technologies’ CTO Bill Cason  hosts Gene Leganza, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research Inc., for an in-depth discussion on the increasing need for a new generation of EA programs that deliver business…

As Troux customers, Richard J. Reese and his Discover Financial Services team were just awarded the coveted 2010 Enterprise Architecture Award by Forrester Research Inc. and InfoWorld last month. Rick says, “Enterprise Architecture has a long his…

We can run but we can’t hide; there is too much to do, too many opportunities to leverage. Cloud. Mobile. IT consumerization.  Now is the time to take the first step toward turning what may be  IT chaos into IT harmony. The empowered CI…

Latest publication by BCS features couple of my articles. The title of the book is “Management Skills in IT” and it is now available onAmazon.

Before even starting with an introduction about the Business Requirements Management Handbook, a short introduction about Business Requirements Management:
The demands of principals, users and other stakeholders, in other words the requirements, fo…

Talking to industry journalists and observers gives us an interesting view into how opinion leaders see enterprise architecture and where it fits in today’s business environment. Given today’s pressures, it wasn’t surprising t…

 
EA tools can no longer just analyze. As industry analyst Gartner Inc. points out, “EA tools must bring business value by integrating, analyzing and communicating structured and unstructured information about a wide range of aspects of the …

Businesses need a road map to find their way through today’s chaotic business and technical changes to succeed in the “age of the customer.” The best road map is a “strategic” application portfolio management (APM) program…

Building the investment case for Enterprise Architecture (EA) requires speaking the language of business and delivering quick and ongoing returns. That was the advice from Bodhi Choudhuri, director of Enterprise Architecture at American Express, during…

(Warning: This post is basically me thinking out loud, it may not have a conclusion) 

Out there in the blogosphere, the most common argument about EA is between those that think EA is about architecting the whole enterprise and those that prefer a…

We see it every day with our customers, and now the numbers prove it: EA is playing a more strategic role every day in driving value from IT, with application portfolio management (APM) leading the way.
APM – the process of eliminating obsolete, …