CHAPTER 2: BUSINESS DRIVERS AND BENEFITS
Layers of business benefit
The business benefits of enterprise architecture typically arise in layers, linked in part to the maturity of architecture capability, 6 and to key business drivers that include:
• Cost management
• Compliance management
• Risk management
• Opportunity management.
Cost management: Even from the earliest stages of enterprise architecture, there will be an urgent need for it to assist in managing and reducing the cost and complexity of the organisation’s systems – particularly its IT systems. The aim here will be to reduce redundancy and duplication, to enhance consistency and common meaning across the enterprise, and to control and constrain the proliferation of unmanaged ...
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