1. Info-Tech Research Group1 1 Headline / Subhead Vertical pacing V4 Info-Tech Research Group, Inc. Is a global leader in providing IT research and advice. Info-Tech’s products and services combine actionable insight and relevant advice with ready-to-use tools and templates that cover the full spectrum of IT concerns. © 1997-2014 Info-Tech Research Group Inc. Headline / Subhead Vertical Spacing V4 Adopt 10 Universal Enterprise Architecture Principles Create a foundation of shared beliefs for guiding the use of IT in constructing, transforming, and operating your organization. Info-Tech's products and services combine actionable insight and relevant advice with ready-to-use tools and templates that cover the full spectrum of IT concerns.© 1997 - 2014 Info-Tech Research Group

2. Info-Tech Research Group2 2 Headline / Subhead Vertical pacing V4 This Research is Designed For:This Research Will Help You: This Research Will Assist:This Research Will Help You: This Research Is Designed For:This Research Will Help You: This Research Will Also Assist:This Research Will Help Them: Our Understanding of the Problem CIO considering to implement or update EA principles. Chief/Enterprise Architect updating or creating EA principles. CIO implementing IT governance framework. Recognize the need for EA principles. Secure executive buy-in. Understand what makes a good EA principle. Write a set of EA principles for your organization or update the existing ones. Make people follow EA principles you developed. IT managers and engineers Business executives Understand the role(s) of EA principles. Discover how they can benefit from applying EA principles.

3. Info-Tech Research Group3 3 Headline / Subhead Vertical pacing V4 Resolution Situation ! Complication ? Info-Tech Insight Executive Summary At every organization, every day, employees at various levels make decisions on how IT is used in building, transforming, and operating the enterprise. These decisions affect enterprise performance, both short and long term. IT policies assign authorities and accountability for making key IT decisions, and outline mandatory process steps, but don’t say what should guide the decision-making process. Naturally, employees in different departments and at different levels have different, often competing priorities. Moreover, employees tend to make decisions leaning on their own assumptions as to how IT should be used by the organization. IT decisions, guided by foundational beliefs that differ, lack cohesiveness in achieving enterprise goals and require an increased IT governance effort to achieve policy compliance and realize desired business outcomes. EA principles succinctly communicate the organization’s intent as to the use of IT in building, transforming, and operating the enterprise and provide a foundation of shared beliefs that guide IT decision making across the organization. EA principles represent a key component of IT governance and should guide the development of domain-specific policies (e.g. security policy, procurement policy) that elaborate on particular implications of principles in specific process areas. EA principles are shared, long-lasting beliefs that guide the use of IT in constructing, transforming, and operating the enterprise by informing and restricting target-state enterprise architecture design, IT investment portfolio management, solution development, and procurement decisions. Without EA principles, IT management decisions are guided by either employees’ personal preferences or assumptions on how these decisions should be made. Lack of EA principles results in making ineffective decisions and higher governance effort required to control and correct them.

4. Info-Tech Research Group4 4 Headline / Subhead Vertical pacing V4 Confirm your need for EA principles Make the EA principles decision. Understand why your organization needs EA principles. You will discuss the benefits of having good EA principles that are followed, their role in IT governance, and the four-step approach to implement them. Validate your EA principles group charter Write the charter to obtain executive approval for establishing a cross-functional working group with representatives from both business and IT to write EA principles. Validate it with our Analysts before you present it to your project sponsors. Understand what makes a good EA principle Before you start writing your EA principles, review the qualities of good EA principles: approach-focused, relevant, long lasting, prescriptive, verifiable, easily digestible, and followed. Verify your preliminary EA principles ideas. Review your EA principles Define your EA principles. Review your EA principles and the accompanying presentation deck with our Analysts before presenting them to your IT Steering Committee for approval. Prepare to get your EA principles endorsed Prepare to present your EA principles to the IT Steering Committee for approval. Validate your communication plan and roadmap Build an EA Principles Operationalization Roadmap and an EA Principles Communication Plan. Validate them with our Analysts before you present them to your IT Steering Committee for approval. Info-Tech is ready to assist. Book a free guided implementation today! Book a Guided Implementation Today: Info-Tech is just a phone call away and can assist you with your project. Our expert Analysts can guide you to successful project completion. For most members, this service is available at no additional cost.* * Guided Implementations are included in most advisory membership seats. Here are the suggested Guided Implementation points in the Implement Enterprise Architecture Principles project:

5. Info-Tech Research Group5 5 Headline / Subhead Vertical pacing V4 There is a silver bullet solution. Use Info-Tech’s 10 universal EA principles as a starting point. More is not better. Leverage 6,000 years of human experience: limit the number of your commandments to 10 and make them succinct. Every organization can benefit from a set of shared foundational beliefs – EA principles. Key Insights EA principles guide decisions on the use of IT across the enterprise. IT decisions that are informed by a shared set of guiding principles (as opposed to employee’s assumptions and personal preferences) require less IT governance effort and enable the organization’s cohesiveness in achieving both strategic and tactical goals. EA principles represent a key component of IT governance and should guide the development of domain-specific policies (e.g. security policy, procurement policy) that elaborate on particular implications of principles in specific process areas. Keep EA principles as short as possible, and limit their total number to 10. The sample architecture principles from TOGAF 9 are well intended, but at the same time they are too wordy and too numerous and can be hard to understand.The sample architecture principles from TOGAF 9 As counter-intuitive as it seems, most organizations can benefit from the same set of 10 universal EA principles developed by Info-Tech Research Group. The rationale and the implications sections of each principle should be tailored to the organization’s specifics.

6. Info-Tech Research Group6 6 Headline / Subhead Vertical pacing V4 What’s in this Section:Sections: Project rationale What is an EA principle? Benefits of EA principles. EA principles and domain-specific policies. EA principles and enterprise governance of IT. The four-step approach to define and implement EA principles. Project rationale Develop a sponsored mandate for EA principles Understand what makes a good EA principle Define EA principles Operationalize your EA principles Appendix

7. Info-Tech Research Group7 7 Headline / Subhead Vertical pacing V4 What You Will Achieve in this Section Insight Project rationale Every organization can benefit from a set of shared foundational beliefs on the use of IT – EA principles. EA principles are shared, long-lasting beliefs that guide the use of IT in constructing, transforming, and operating the enterprise by informing and restricting target-state enterprise architecture design, IT investment portfolio management, solution development, and procurement decisions. Implement EA principles and policies to reduce costs, increase compliance, and improve business-IT alignment. An understanding of the benefits of properly implemented EA principles. A confirmation that your organization needs EA principles. Direction on how to define and implement EA principles by following the four-step approach. An understanding of why EA principles are important in the context of enterprise governance of IT.

8. Info-Tech Research Group8 8 Headline / Subhead Vertical pacing V4 What guides IT management decisions at your organization? A foundation of common guiding principles on the use of IT is required to make effective IT decisions across the enterprise Every organization can benefit from a set of shared foundational beliefs on the use of IT – EA principles. Info-Tech Insight Employees’ assumptions as to how IT decisions should be made Employees’ personal preferences EA Principles Shared beliefs on the use of IT, which are succinctly defined, endorsed by executives, and followed across the organization. Enterprise governance of IT Enterprise Goals - or - IT management decisions Enterprise governance of IT

9. Info-Tech Research Group9 9 Headline / Subhead Vertical pacing V4 Good EA principles harmonize and accelerate execution of business and IT strategies and enable achievement of business and IT vision and goals. EA principles represent a foundation of beliefs for creating and executing business and IT strategies and tactical plans EA principles are shared, long-lasting beliefs that guide the use of IT in constructing, transforming, and operating the enterprise by informing and restricting target-state enterprise architecture design, IT investment portfolio management, solution development, and procurement decisions. Each principle must be considered in the context of "all other things being equal." At times a decision will be required as to which information principle will take precedence on a particular issue. A common reaction on first reading of a principle is "this is motherhood," but the fact that a principle seems self-evident does not mean that the principle is actually observed in an organization, even when there are verbal acknowledgements of the principle. Source: TOGAF 9, Chapter 23: Architecture Principles EA principles are defined with the following attributes: Name. Represents the essence of the EA principle; is easy to remember. Statement. Communicates the EA principle succinctly and unambiguously. Rationale. Describes the reasoning for establishing the EA principle. Implications. Describes when and how the principle is to be applied. Sample EA principle:

10. Info-Tech Research Group10Info-Tech Research Group10 Headline / Subhead Vertical pacing V4 EA principles summarize the organization’s intent towards the use of IT in achieving the organizational vision and attaining business and IT objectives. EA principles are a key component of IT governance, promoting desired behavior in the enterprise-wide use of IT Plan (APO) Build (BAI) Run (DSS) Monitor (MEA) EvaluateDirectMonitor IT Management IT Governance EA Principles Sourcing Policy Infrastructure Policy Service Mgt Policy Risk Mgt Policy Performance Mgt Policy … Domain-specific policies Domain-specific implications of EA principles should be outlined in corresponding policies. The policies should clearly and unambiguously state decision accountabilities and authorities, corresponding threshold, and mandatory process steps.

11. Info-Tech Research Group11Info-Tech Research Group11 Headline / Subhead Vertical pacing V4 Policies can be seen as “the letter of the law,” whereas EA principles summarize “the spirit of the law.” EA principles provide a foundation for enterprise-wide decision making that affects current and future use of IT “The spirit of the law” “The letter of the law” How should decisions be made? EA Principles Decisions on the use of IT guide, inform directcontrol Sourcing Policy Service Mgt Policy Risk Mgt Policy Performance Mgt Policy … Domain-specific policies Who has the accountability and authority to make decisions?

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