ITM 505 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Enterprise Architecture, Information Technology Architecture, Disruptive Innovation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 505
• Professor: Bharat Shah

Document Summary

Enterprise architecture is a set of models that describes the technical implementation of organizations business strategy and business process. The tenet form ever follows function describes the relationship between an organization form and the customers need for functionality. The organization business processes must be able to provide the desired functionality. Ea provides the overall foundation for achieving an organization"s strategic vision. If there is an ineffective enterprise architecture, it can jeopardize the success of an organization. The enterprise architecture enables managers to do the following: increase employees effectiveness by enabling high order thinking. Employees must be able to transition from daily tasks and to think critically about new ideas or ways of doing thing differently. Incremental improvement (sustain technology): a process of implementing continual small enhancements to a process, resulting in slow but steady improvement. The new global economy will require more innovation, which in turn will require more intellectual capital. Intellectual capital is the knowledge of the workforce.