by Angela Guess
A recent interview with Deloitte Consulting technology strategist Daniel Lawrence Spar provides some insight into how enterprise architecture (EA) can support business. Spar states, “EA, when approached properly, is multidisciplinary and when done right it brings together the concepts of business strategy in its operating models, technology architecture and implementation detail. What happens very often is EA is brought in by the IT department, so it’s going to be biased more towards IT because of who brought it in and what the business driver is for the reason that they were brought in. For example, if there’s a merger and acquisition in place and you need to bring together systems from multiple acquired companies, that might be an imperative IT driver.”
Spar continues, “What I’d love to see more of are businesses recognizing that this multi-disciplinary approach can help them on the business strategy side and see more drivers such as we want to improve our business operating model in the future, but we want to leverage the best strategic way to do that.”
photo credit: Eric Fischer
