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Getting You Chief Strategist Involved in EA

CIO | City Planning: a Metaphor forEnterprise Architecture

Some incentive to get your Chief Strategy Officer or other executive level planning people involved in your EA project...they may be tasked with the whole effort one day...

META Trend: Enterprise architecture (EA) success will be determined by the extent to which corporate and line-of-business managers comprehend, support, and enforce the architecture. By 2007, 15 percent of EA core teams will move out from under the IT organization’s management structure, with direct reporting relationships to either corporate strategy or corporate change management functions. By 2007, 40 percent of enterprise architects will have primary expertise in business strategy or process engineering.

Having them play a key role in the Common Requirements Vision (CRV) looks to be a great way to get them started.