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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প্রধান লেখক: ROSS, JEANNE W.
বিন্যাস: Working Paper
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প্রকাশিত: 2003
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অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3526
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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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Creating a Strategic IT Architecture Competency: Learning in Stages
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IT Architectural Stages
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