INF 80018 - Business Strategy and Governance

Running head: ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, STRATEGY and GOVERNANCE
Enterprise Architecture, Strategy and Governance
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1ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, STRATEGY and GOVERNANCE
Introduction
The present scenario given is the Logistics of ABC regarding its structural change that
includes a new CEO, CTO, CIO and a chairman. The new CEO of the company is Mark Dale.
He wants to change the business strategy of the company. He wants his company to be the
leading logistics supplier across the regions of its operation particularly in its parcel supplier and
also increase its revenue to ten percent. An enterprise architecture charter was developed which
defines drivers, guiding principles and objectives of the enterprise. The head of the ABC
business signed the charter and initiated the enterprise architecture project. All the acquisition of
application and business processes and implementation of high level technology were put
together in architecture document and were submitted for the approval of Mark.
The recent downturn of Australian dollar hit the company very badly. Many of scheduled
technology investments of ABC architecture were affordable no more due to this decline value of
dollar. This changed the architecture of the company and the business strategy of the company.
The CEO had to take difficult decision regarding the architecture of the company because it had
to give priority of the IS/IT investment associated with the enterprise architecture.
As the value of dollar has not increased in the Asian Region, mark decided to focus on
the development of the new logistics markets in those regions. Because of growing middle class
countries in the Asian Region, Mark decided its strategic focus on those regions particularly.
Mark was very confident about the approach he was taking and was concerned at the
same time. He wanted to know the governance framework and approach a planning that will
have IS/IT framework and the aligned the investment with the strategic objectives of ABC that
will ensure the benefit of the technology that is invested.

2ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, STRATEGY and GOVERNANCE
Importance of IT governance
For controlling, developing and introducing IT governance more precisely, the company
has to build a more exact framework that is suitable for the organization that deals with roles,
responsibilities and power of decision making (Carman et al. 2013). Five regions of domains are
described below from which the framework defines which of the functions it has to follow.
Strategic Alignment- The strategy of the IT and the strategy of company should be kept
on a single line.
Value Delivery- The value that is contributed by the IT sector to the success of the
company is be evaluated and measured.
Management of Risk- Identification and management of risk is also done by IT
governance.
Resource Management- For efficient use and goal oriented resources, decisions are to be
made.
Performance Measurement- appraisal and measurement of the degree of implementation
are to be done on first four domain of the organization.
Reviews on areas of an IS/IT governance framework
Many incidents of high profile of frauding the corporate world and the failures related to
them have arrived in the recent years to highlight the corporate governance in business world
(Ruggie 2014). The significant factor and fundamental tool of business planning is regarded by
the IT governance (Rosemann and Brocke 2015). In most of the corporate business, mechanisms