Enterprise Architecture Executive Handbook - U.S. Coast Guard

• Resource management: Ensures optimal investment in and the proper management of critical IT
resources including: processes, people, applications, infrastructure, and information. Resource
management key issues relate to the optimization of knowledge and infrastructure.
• Risk management: Promotes risk awareness to senior executives and provides a clear understanding
of the enterprise’s tolerance of risk, transparency about the significant risks to the enterprise, and
embedding of risk management responsibilities into the organization.
• Performance measurement: Tracks and monitors strategy implementation, project completion,
resource usage, process performance and service delivery, using, for example, balanced scorecards
that translate strategy into action to achievable goals that are measurable beyond conventional
accounting.
C4&IT Governance Scope
The CGEA Terms and Taxonomy Profile, Figure 19 (next page) shows the scope of C4&IT at the USCG.
The governance process described in the following sections applies to all C4&IT at the USCG.
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