- A Workbook for Developing a Business/IT Strategy
7 Nov 07 | Workbooks
From a wide range of available techniques to implement each step in the process, we have selected a few that are both simple in concept and proven in practice. The workbook also includes case studies to illustrate their use. Our goal is to provide an effective process that ensures that the necessary conversations with the business take place.
- Enterprise Architecture in the Real World
20 Nov 08 | Presentation
Enterprise architecture should aim to provide the essential understanding of the business operating model: how the business and IT capabilities of an enterprise are configured, interrelated and deployed in order to support what the organization is trying to achieve. Today, enterprise architecture has become more critical to business success as developments in technology are enabling organizations to be more adaptive and ‘service based’.
See event: Developing a Strategic Business/IT Architecture (20 November 2008)
- Business/IT Strategy in a Darkening Economic Climate
20 Nov 08 | Presentation
As IT continues to permeate just about every corner of the modern enterprise, it should not be surprising that business and IT strategies must converge. Yet too often the business and industry-specific aspects of an IT strategy wind up subordinate to more generic systems and applications concerns. Recent LEF research argues that this approach is becoming increasingly problematic, and that industry specific variations need to be more aggressively accounted for. In this session, David presented the LEF process for developing an IT strategy for your industry, using our recently developed lead sector analysis framework.
See event: Developing a Strategic Business/IT Architecture (20 November 2008)
- Enterprise Architecture in the Real World
18 Nov 08 | Presentation
Enterprise architecture should aim to provide the essential understanding of the business operating model: how the business and IT capabilities of an enterprise are configured, interrelated and deployed in order to support what the organization is trying to achieve. Today, enterprise architecture has become more critical to business success as developments in technology are enabling organizations to be more adaptive and ‘service based’.
See event: Developing a Business/IT Strategy and Architecture (18 November 2008)
- Business/IT Strategy in a Darkening Economic Climate
18 Nov 08 | Presentation
As IT continues to permeate just about every corner of the modern enterprise, it should not be surprising that business and IT strategies must converge. Yet too often the business and industry-specific aspects of an IT strategy wind up subordinate to more generic systems and applications concerns. Recent LEF research argues that this approach is becoming increasingly problematic, and that industry specific variations need to be more aggressively accounted for. In this session, David will present the LEF process for developing an IT strategy for your industry, using our recently developed lead sector analysis framework.
See event: Developing a Business/IT Strategy and Architecture (18 November 2008)
- Enterprise Architecture in the Real World
5 Nov 08 | Single Topic Reports
We define enterprise architecture as the organizing logic of the business operating model of an enterprise, comprising its business functions and business processes, as well as the information, applications, services and technology infrastructure that support them. To draw an analogy with bricks and mortar, enterprise architecture is broadly equivalent to town planning, as opposed to solution architecture at the project level, which is analogous to the design of an individual building.
Enterprise architecture provides the essential understanding of how the business and IT capabilities of an enterprise are configured, interrelated and deployed in order to support what the business is trying to achieve. The result should be a set of interlocking architectures reflecting all of the required capabilities.
Download executive summary. - Developing a Business/IT Strategy April 08
3 Apr 08 | Presentation
Traditional approaches to IT Strategy formulation often fail to deliver for three basic reasons. First, they tend to skate over business differences and focus overly on the technology itself – the area that most easily lends itself to benchmarking and the application of general ‘best practice’. Second, they assume that the business strategy is readily available and that its impacts on the operating model are clearly defined. (This is rarely the case.) And third, they assume a well-defined boundary around the target business operating unit. Yet such clean-cut organizational structures are a rarity in a world where key business functions are increasingly outsourced and where partnering is necessary to bring sophisticated products and services to market – a trend that is being driven by the expanding use of the Internet and its associated standards.
Alex Mayall and David Moschella have recently published an LEF workbook that provides a practical guide to the development of a Business/IT Strategy. This web conference presented the case for a fresh rethinking of the conventional IT Strategy formulation process, and drew upon some of the frameworks and case studies laid out in the workbook to illustrate the key points.
See event: Developing a Business/IT Strategy (3 April 2008)
- Developing a Business/IT Strategy
29 Jan 08 | Podcast
Traditional approaches to IT Strategy formulation often fail to deliver for three basic reasons. First, they tend to skate over business differences and focus overly on the technology itself – the area that most easily lends itself to benchmarking and the application of general ‘best practice’. Second, they assume that the business strategy is readily available and that its impacts on the operating model are clearly defined. (This is rarely the case.) And third, they assume a well-defined boundary around the target business operating unit. Yet such clean-cut organizational structures are a rarity in a world where key business functions are increasingly outsourced and where partnering is necessary to bring sophisticated products and services to market – a trend that is being driven by the expanding use of the Internet and its associated standards.
Alex Mayall and David Moschella have recently published an LEF workbook that provides a practical guide to the development of a Business/IT Strategy. This web conference will present the case for a fresh rethinking of the conventional IT Strategy formulation process, and will draw upon some of the frameworks and case studies laid out in the workbook to illustrate the key points.
See event: Developing a Business/IT Strategy
- Developing a Business/IT Strategy
29 Jan 08 | Presentation
Traditional approaches to IT Strategy formulation often fail to deliver for three basic reasons. First, they tend to skate over business differences and focus overly on the technology itself – the area that most easily lends itself to benchmarking and the application of general ‘best practice’. Second, they assume that the business strategy is readily available and that its impacts on the operating model are clearly defined. (This is rarely the case.) And third, they assume a well-defined boundary around the target business operating unit. Yet such clean-cut organizational structures are a rarity in a world where key business functions are increasingly outsourced and where partnering is necessary to bring sophisticated products and services to market – a trend that is being driven by the expanding use of the Internet and its associated standards.
Alex Mayall and David Moschella have recently published an LEF workbook that provides a practical guide to the development of a Business/IT Strategy. This web conference presented the case for a fresh rethinking of the conventional IT Strategy formulation process, and drew upon some of the frameworks and case studies laid out in the workbook to illustrate the key points.
See event: Developing a Business/IT Strategy