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Down the Road

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams

CONTENTS

Periodic Road Map Refresh

Revisiting Business Alignment

Sustaining Requirements

Architecture Element Changes

Improvement in IMM

New Organization Behaviors

New Elements for EIM

Summary

Old State

Middle Transition State

New State

References

There will always be adjustments with EIM. Like any other established program or function, it must flex with changes in business climate. The artifacts and architectural elements are all based on business drivers, so flexibility is built in, but that does not mean the EIM components change by themselves. There needs to be recognition ...

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