It’s an old argument for me. I mean, why toss good money after bad if you’re not getting the results?

Truth be told, most organizations are not spending that much on enterprise architecture. Indeed, for most of the Global 2000, there is a lone architect with a couple of staffers, but no budgetary or referential authority. Thus, no results. You can’t “influence” your way to success; you must have some kind of hammer to drop on somebody’s head if he or she doesn’t follow core architectural principles. In the world of enterprise architecture, it’s called governance (a bit different than SOA governance, by the way). Thus, there are groups of people drawing nice paychecks that don’t add value to IT, or to the business, and don’t have to deliver tangible results. Good work if you can get it.

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