Architect? A Candid Guide to the Profession

Papademetriou, Peter C.; Lewis, Roger K.

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“…Over the years, the complexity of today's constructions became a matter for experts. Therefore, the original role of the architect changed and it is no longer enough to be an artist, but to have managerial and organizational abilities, as well as negotiating and marketing skills, political sensitivity, legal acumen and business connections (Lewis, 2013). Although the role of the enterprise architect is more like that of a city or urban planner respectively McKeen and Smith (2002), Lewis' description is also suitable for the domain of IT.…”

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The Architect's Role in Business-IT Alignment

Mosthaf

Wagner

2016

International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance

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The importance of alignment between business and information technology (IT) for generating IT business value has been emphasized in many research papers. Current literature broadly supports that capable and sustainable enterprise architecture is essential to support business processes as well as future agility. In that respect, individuals performing the role of an enterprise architect are at the core of the interface between business and IT and their relationship with the business side is crucial to generate IT business value. Employing a qualitative study, the authors show that competencies such as profound work experience and business-related topics serves to bridge the IT-business gap and may foster alignment. This result contributes to alignment and governance literature as it emphasizes an individual level antecedent of business-IT alignment.

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Section: The Architect Rolementioning

confidence: 99%