Enterprise Architecture: Leadership Remains Key to Establishing and Leveraging Architectures for Organizational Transformation

United States. Government Accountability Office.

United States. Government Accountability Office.

关键词: Government accountability -- United States.;    information technology;    enterprise architecture;    letter report;   

RP-ID  :  GAO-06-831
RP-ID  :  251154

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "A well-defined enterprise architecture is an essential tool for leveraging information technology (IT) to transform business and mission operations. GAO's experience has shown that attempting to modernize and evolve IT environments without an architecture to guide and constrain investments results in operations and systems that are duplicative, not well integrated, costly to maintain, and ineffective in supporting mission goals. In light of the importance of enterprise architectures, GAO developed a five stage architecture management maturity framework that defines what needs to be done to effectively manage an architecture program. Under GAO's framework, a fully mature architecture program is one that satisfies all elements of all stages of the framework. As agreed, GAO's objective was to determine the status of major federal department and agency enterprise architecture efforts."