Alignment in Enterprise Architecture and IT

In a recent post by James McGovern at Enterprise Architecture: From Incite to Insight, he discusses the difficulties in aligning what your IT department understands with the priorities of your business, and how that could be difficult to do. In order for these two to function at their greatest capacities, IT and the businesses priorities must be matched to the company’s growth strategy. However, simply doing this doesn’t guarantee improvement.

McGovern also states that being aligned unless IT is held up to the standards of finishing their projects on time and on budget. To have the business and IT completely in sync, the Enterprise Architect must understand the difference between being aligned and being efficient, and hold the IT department to those standards.