Analyzing Leadership Qualities in Enterprise Architecture Applications

This report delves into the leadership characteristics essential for Enterprise Architecture (EA) applications, emphasizing the role and importance of leadership in various business processes. It identifies key leadership characteristics, explores leadership practices within EA, and discusses impr...Read More

Enterprise Architecture
Applications
Characteristics of Leadership

Introduction
• Enterprise Architecture is practiced in various
ways,
• Role and characteristics of Enterprise
Architecture,
• Research suggests leadership characteristics of
Enterprise Architecture in large companies, and
• Leadership in Enterprise Architecture focuses
on various business process

Research objective
• The objectives of the study is to find out various
leadership characteristics of Enterprise Architecture.
• Research objectives are
Identify the leadership characteristics,
Understanding leadership practices of Enterprise
Architects, and
Improving, managing and measuring the
organizational performance

Research approach and method
• Qualitative Method will be used,
• Most appropriate method to understand the
human behavior,
• Focus on various studies done by different
authors,
• Focus on the role and importance of leadership

Literature review
• Various theories and studies given by researchers,
• Leadership: an important factor to support the
business,
• Various impact of leadership,
• Essential for providing vision for future,
• Helpful in strategic planning for effective services.

Leadership
• Creating confidence,
• Efficient guidance,
• Motivation,
• Initiating actions, and
• Building morale

Enterprise Architecture
• Well defined practice for enterprise analysis,
• Applies architecture principles and practices,
• Responsible for performing the analysis of business
structure,
• Important concept for large companies for planning
function

Reason to consider Enterprise Architecture
• To manage the company’s investment in IT,
• To deal with the business problems and
challenges,
• To develop applications and reduce the costs,
• To enhance IT operations,
• To simplify the processes

Role of Enterprise Architect
• Six major parts of constructing an enterprise architecture,
• Identify current state of IT,
• Examine and document current initiatives,
• Document the ‘gap’,
• Construct the list of projects,
• Business transformation and process management

Leadership Characteristics in EA
• Understanding the development
process,
• Knowledge of business domain,
• Good communicator,
• Effective decision making skill,
• Good negotiator

Leadership practices of EA-IBM
• Supporting business model of IBM,
• Building strong technical
relationships,
• Providing demand solutions,
• Providing client significant added
value, and
• Increase value to the clients’
business

Leadership practices of EA-Fujitsu
• Providing future strategic
shapes,
• Mapping the current state,
• Leading the team by Duo
Diligence
• Creating the initial solution
blueprint,
• Identify the opportunities to
enhance value proposition

Leadership practices of EA-Cap Gemini
• Collaborating with various areas
for cohesive working solutions,
• Developing holistic views of
business process,
• Building value proposition
• Working as the recognized
authority, and
• Lead the solutions with
required governance
procedures

Conclusion
• Important function of management,
• Ability to develop a vision,
• Motivates others with the passion,
• Accomplish an objective,
• Providing information, knowledge, and methods,
• Coordinates and balances

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