I’m absolutely convinced of the benefits of Enterprise Architecture (EA), but there are many reasons why an EA effort might get derailed and it’s really challenging to articulate and demonstrate the benefits to organisations when there are so many things competing for CIO ‘mindshare’. This is especially true in the current economic conditions…EA budgets feel a bit like marketing budgets – they get squeezed out as non-essential and ‘we can live without it for a while’. But, just as is often said for marketing spend, it can be argued that EA budgets are even more critical to maintain during the ‘hard times’ as your enterprise architecture programme is the thing that will identify and bring home costs savings, efficiency improvements and revenue growth.
Slow motion car crashes are really frustrating to watch…
