Establishing a Partnership with your Business

Open Group Conference, Philadelphia.  Enterprise Architects have been advocating for a seat at the business strategy table since the dawn of, well, enterprise architecture.  In  many cases even getting a clear understanding of the business strategy is a challenge, let alone participating in its formulation.  By establishing partnership with the business, EA can better understand and even influence the business strategy, thus enabling IT to more effectively empower businesses goals and objectives.  More importantly, EA can extend beyond the technology boundary and take an active role in transforming the business.  This is a case study of a step by step approach for building such a partnership at a top 15 US bank.