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<strong>Myth</strong>-<strong>Busting</strong>: <strong>What</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong> <strong>Is</strong> <strong>Not</strong><br />
Strategic Planning Guideline: The IT strategic planning team leverages critical architecture<br />
artifacts, including the CRV (to provide overall strategic context for the IT strategy), the<br />
future-state view of the enterprise, and the gap analysis and road map that define the<br />
migration from the current state to the desired future state.<br />
EA Teams Should Serve as Advisors Into<br />
IT Strategic Planning<br />
An IT strategic plan commonly addresses:<br />
• Sourcing options and strategies<br />
• Service delivery plans and service-level agreements (SLAs)<br />
• Vendor management plans<br />
• How resources should be allocated<br />
• IT organizational structure and governance<br />
• IT training, recruiting and mentoring programs<br />
• IT functional plans (integrating new technologies, data formats,<br />
service delivery models, acquisition cycles)<br />
Strategic<br />
Direction<br />
Strategic<br />
Initiatives<br />
Project<br />
Plans<br />
3 to 5 Years 18 Months 1 Year Today<br />
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Benefits<br />
Realization<br />
IT Strategy Evolves From Goals to Results<br />
EA is not IT strategic planning.<br />
Key <strong>Is</strong>sue: <strong>What</strong> EA is not. And, how does EA relate to other IT and business initiatives?<br />
EA and IT strategic planning are complementary efforts that must be coordinated and integrated, but they are<br />
not the same. IT strategic planning is the vehicle that sets long-term goals for the IT organization; it establishes<br />
the directions and constraints that will guide the tactical achievement of these goals, and it identifies the assets<br />
and capabilities that the IT organization has to acquire, and how, in order to execute the plan. IT strategic<br />
planning integrates the strategic intent of the business with the IT organization's delivery options, capabilities,<br />
priorities and commitments.<br />
Although IT strategic planning is most often led by a CIO, EA teams should serve as advisors into IT strategic<br />
planning, along with the CTO, senior IT staff, and business leaders and users.<br />
Betsy Burton<br />
ESC20_666, 11/08, AE<br />
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