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3 CTO Role Models

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Print PDF Given the game-changing possibilities of information technology and the ever-increasing complexity of the corporate IT platform, it is time to consider elevating enterprise leadership roles along-side the CIO. The first place for us to start is with the Chief Technology Officer. While the CIO role and scope of responsibility is more understood, the CTO and her role is much less clear. While I don’t have a formula that will work in every case, […]

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The Agile CIO as a Business – IT Marriage Counselor

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Print PDF Guest post by Tim Mattix and Mike Mariani If the relationship between developers and business users is like a marriage, sometimes the CIO’s job is akin to a marriage counselor. In a marriage, one spouse often wants the other to change. In the market, business executives want change, too; changes in the way systems operate so they can capitalize on new opportunities. And often the complaints in both situations are the same. It’s […]

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Troux 2011: Journey to the Business Side of Enterprise Architecture at USAA

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Speaker: Michael Pemberton, Enterprise Architect and USAA USAA has had an enterprise architecture practice on the technology side and is now establishing a business architecture practice. First point: Why did USAA take the journey? They realized that without a business-driven, integrated enterprise architecture, it would be like driving without a map. Their challenge was that […]

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Troux 2011: Delivering Business Value with Enterprise Architecture

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This presentation was given by Richard J. Reese, VP of Enterprise Architecture for Discover Financial Services. He started by showing some of the Discover “Peggy” commercials (look them up on YouTube, they’re pretty funny) and emphasized that Discover is known for their cash back programs and their customer service. EA resource allocation at Discover is […]

Schools of Enterprise Architecture: Ideas of Architecting the Business, the Organization and the Technology

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Introduction Enterprise Architecture as a concept can be defined as many different things, shapes and practices. Through my studies of the concept of Enterprise Architecture, I have discovered that there are as many definitions of Enterprise Architecture as there are … Continue reading →

Troux 2011: How to Develop an IT Strategy to Accelerate Business Goals

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The first session I’m in is one of the few sessions by Troux staff at the conference, being given by Bill Cason, CTO of Troux. Always nice to see a CTO doing these things. Bill went over the IT strategy planning process, involving the business, the office of the CIO, and enterprise architecture. There was […]

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The Empowered Business

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Alex Cullen of Forrester posted an interesting blog regarding the “inevitable trend” of business empowerment. At the recent Forrester EA Forum, they invited attendees to rate on a 1-5 scale, whether or not “the EA function has close ties with business management” and whether or not the “technology strategy and standards allow for rapidly changing […]

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