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How to Optimally Align IT with Your Business Processes?

Strategy Driven

Structuring business information is also referred to as enterprise architecture. How Does Enterprise Architecture Add Value? The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture. In order for enterprise architecture to be effective, a company must be agile.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Followers of Lean, which is based on the Toyota manufacturing approach that made it the leader in automobile quality ( the Toyota Production System ), believe top executives need to break down strategic objectives into implications for process improvements to get everyone moving in the same direction.

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Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Harvard Business Review

One of the common divides is that the former is focused on adopting the latest technologies, while the latter is focused on governance, security, and enterprise architecture. Website innovation and other digital marketing projects, which require IT staff to accomplish, would be top priorities for marketing.