Mgt.Info.Syst.and Bus.Strategy

TUI UNIVERSITY

Module 5 CASE

ITM501 - Mgt. Info. Syst. and Bus. Strategy

15 SEPTEMBER 2013

Introduction

For a successful enterprise architecture program it is absolutely necessary that you prepare your organization for the long journey. Organizational readiness include not only making sure that everyone is aware about enterprise architecture program, but also making sure that you get buy-in from all users group, and make necessary changes in the structure of the organization to support the program successfully. The activities include getting commitment from the executive sponsor and having that commitment passed down the entire organization and involve a two way change, communication and feedback mechanism throughout the life of the program. In this paper, argument and agreement over organizational dependency on the analysis of large databases and other IT resources to formulate basic strategy will be discussed. On the basis of such analysis, recommendation over its use will be provided.

The enterprise architecture program must have full commitment from the executive sponsor who will be acting as the change agent for the business transformation program. The executive sponsor should validate the business goals and benefits with peers and senior executives and should obtain support from key “level two” or business leaders and direct reporting managers. Communication is the key for successful change management. It is important that the right message to the right audience is communicated at the right time. The communication strategy begins by creating communication groups and formulating message contexts, audience and involves activities for communication to specific level and what information needed to be included to a specific communication group. The communication strategy should also include communication intervals, progress report and status report from all levels back to the executive sponsor(s) for monitoring and fine tuning. An active feedback channel...