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 improving organizational performance through effective leadership. The report reviews literature highlighting leadership's impact on business support, vision provision, and strategic planning. It examines the role of Enterprise Architects in managing IT investments, addressing business challenges, and enhancing IT operations. Furthermore, the report analyzes leadership practices in companies like IBM, Fujitsu, and Cap Gemini, focusing on business model support, technical relationship building, strategic shaping, and collaborative solutions. Concluding that effective leadership is crucial for developing a vision, motivating others, and achieving organizational objectives.

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