By Jeanne W. Ross
Company structure defines a firm's wishes for standardized initiatives, activity roles, structures, infrastructure, and knowledge in center enterprise procedures. hence, it is helping a firm to articulate the way it will compete in a electronic economic system and it publications managers' day-by-day judgements to gain their imaginative and prescient of luck. This publication sincerely explains firm architecture's very important function in enabling--or constraining--the execution of industrial method. The e-book presents transparent frameworks, considerate case examples, and a proven-effective established method for designing and imposing potent firm architectures.
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More often, compaiii~s adopting the Diversification operating model establish economies of scale through a shared technology platform. These shared technologies are the key element of the enterprise architecture core diagram. Shared technologies and services often include data centers, the telecommunications network, offshore systems development and maintenance capability, centralized vendor negotiations, and help desks. Diversification companies that value other shared services might also represent some standard processes or even shared data in their core diagram, particularly if a subset of business units is sharing data but hasn't created a formal structure to manage it (figure 3-4).
Thus, IT investments are usually justified on the basis of cost reductions. In a well-managed Business Silos environment, business managers design business processes and specify required IT functionality. IT then develops or buys an application to fully meet the reqUirements. Ideally, systems delivery in this stage generates a 100 percent solution to the specified business need. 73 Organizationally, applications in the Business Silos stage align naturally with a company's business unit, functional, or geographic structures.
4. Key customers. , channels or segments) served by the foundation for execution. The key elements highlighted in a core diagram are specific to that company's operating model. Thus, we tend to see similarities between the core diagrams of companies adopting the same operating model. We will now describe characteristics of the enterprise architecture for the four operating models. To illustrate an architecture for each, we will start with a company example and then provide a general template and steps for designing the core diagram.
