Enterprise architecture: evolving to succeed |
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The recent emergence of what central banks and policy makers are calling the ‘green shoots’ of an economic recovery bodes well for a recovery by 2011. Nevertheless, over the next few years, the Irish economy will continue to go through a challenging period of re-balancing.
Many organisations have already implemented a cost reduction programme and IT leaders have played their role in this. For many IT leaders, the impacts of these cuts are profound as they find themselves operating in an environment where their pre-downturn IT strategies are largely defunct, and where their day to day operational requirements from the business are largely the same.
They also find themselves with significantly reduced scope for investment and continuing pressure to go beyond simple expense line reductions and deliver sustainable ‘transformational’ IT cost savings through application portfolio rationalisation or similar means. Beyond this, they are also beginning to experience the impacts of reduced capability and headcount and the continuing requirement to do more, demonstrate value and justify IT’s role in the organisation.
Against this backdrop the question for today’s IT leaders is how can they help the organisation to continue to survive through the downturn while simultaneously transforming themselves for recovery. We believe that Enterprise Architecture provides organisations with the tools necessary to achieve this.
Enterprise architecture: evolving to succeed
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