Delivering Business Value via EA

by Madeline Weiss, Society for Information Management’s Advanced Practices Council Although the number of non-IT business executives who can describe the value of their firms’ enterprise architecture (EA) is probably quite small, Chubb Insurance executives are not in that group. Chubb’s 10-year journey towards comprehensive EA that enables the firm to move confidently into a…

EA is the Road Map to Enterprise Transformation

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from the book The SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture published by Society for Information Management and edited by Leon Kappelman. Those who study advances in health care and other fields find a “generation” lag of about 20 years before discoveries are adopted haphazardly into standard practice. And three or…

Once Again Business, Not IT Top Concern for CIOs

Helping their businesses run more productively, efficiently and improving agility are the main concerns of CIOs today. Most also believe we are seeing the light at the end of the recession tunnel but few will commit to spending, except on safe bets. CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT executives cite business productivity and cost reduction as…