Creating a Strategic IT Architecture Competency: Learning in Stages
IT architecture is often assumed to follow business strategy, to align IT with the business's strategic objectives. Increasingly, though, many business strategies depend on specific underlying IT capabilities. To develop a synergy...
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| description | IT architecture is often assumed to follow business strategy, to align IT with the
business's strategic objectives. Increasingly, though, many business strategies depend
on specific underlying IT capabilities. To develop a synergy between business strategy
and IT architecture, firms must develop organizational competencies in IT architecture.
My research has identified four IT architectural stages, each with its own requisite
competencies. The "application silo architecture stage" consists of IT architectures of
individual applications. The "standardized technology architecture stage" has an
enterprise-wide IT architecture that provides efficiencies through technology
standardization. The "rationalized data architecture stage" extends the enterprise-wide
IT standards to data and processes. And the "modular architecture stage" builds onto
enterprise-wide global standards with loosely coupled IT components to preserve the
global standards while enabling local differences. Each stage demands different
organizational competencies to implement the architecture and prepare the firm to
move to the next stage |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/35262019-04-12T08:25:40Z Creating a Strategic IT Architecture Competency: Learning in Stages ROSS, JEANNE W. IT Architecture Competency IT Architectural Stages IT architecture is often assumed to follow business strategy, to align IT with the business's strategic objectives. Increasingly, though, many business strategies depend on specific underlying IT capabilities. To develop a synergy between business strategy and IT architecture, firms must develop organizational competencies in IT architecture. My research has identified four IT architectural stages, each with its own requisite competencies. The "application silo architecture stage" consists of IT architectures of individual applications. The "standardized technology architecture stage" has an enterprise-wide IT architecture that provides efficiencies through technology standardization. The "rationalized data architecture stage" extends the enterprise-wide IT standards to data and processes. And the "modular architecture stage" builds onto enterprise-wide global standards with loosely coupled IT components to preserve the global standards while enabling local differences. Each stage demands different organizational competencies to implement the architecture and prepare the firm to move to the next stage 2003-06-27T19:42:41Z 2003-06-27T19:42:41Z 2003-06-27T19:42:41Z Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3526 en_US MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper;4314-03 Center for Information Systems Research Working Paper No.;335 295371 bytes application/pdf application/pdf |
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| title | Creating a Strategic IT Architecture Competency: Learning in Stages |
| title_full | Creating a Strategic IT Architecture Competency: Learning in Stages |
| title_fullStr | Creating a Strategic IT Architecture Competency: Learning in Stages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Creating a Strategic IT Architecture Competency: Learning in Stages |
| title_short | Creating a Strategic IT Architecture Competency: Learning in Stages |
| title_sort | creating a strategic it architecture competency learning in stages |
| topic | IT Architecture Competency IT Architectural Stages |
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