In times of economic crisis and after, but not only, to survive, a company needs to
* increase effectiveness (i.e. produce more with less)
by discovering, documenting, improving and streamlining its processes; that requires alignment of BPM, Lean/Six-Sigma, CMM efforts...
* enhance organization efficiency
by aligning roles and responsibilities in the organization chart to systems & processes in the EA
* reduce costs
by standardization and elimination of duplications in products, platforms, processes...
* execute properly the strategy to achieve business objectives
by mapping strategies to organizational units and EA capability projects
* rationalize resource consuming projects
by prioritising all tactical and strategical projects in a Project Portfolio
What is the value of a Sigma effort if the systems described in EA are not properly supporting the improved processes?
How can one properly execute strategy if this is not mapped to business capabilities for lack of an EA blueprint?
Only a full Enterprise Architecture alone will support all these developments through coordination rather than replacement of existing developments. An EA that is not confined to IT. And there is no need for additional investments but but for a better correlation of existing Enterprise initiatives.
Adrian @ http://enterprise-architecture-matters.co.uk
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