Colorado Technical University

CS663 - DV33-02 - Enterprise Systems Architecture

Dr. King, John
Boreddygari Rajesh Reddy
10/16/2014
1) Explain the concept of business agility in your own words. Pp. 4-5.
A) As with the human development, every business company requires a concept of Business
agility. It is the common concept where all organizations seek to approach their operations and
resources in a flexible, responsible manner. Its allows the companies to change according to the
market conditions, priorities of the customers and an advantage of human resources. The
companies are allowed to have an internal and external changes without losing their vision and
mission .Adaptability, flexibility and balancing will play a major role for a long term business. In
the simple sentence a Business agility is the ability to make quick changes in a business
environment to meet up the advance changing business needs. The statics shows that the
companies with good foundation for execution have an increasing advantage to achieve Business
agility and profitable growth.

2) List and discuss at least two (2) issues that might affect IT for a Health care organization
due to security and privacy regulations.
A) The IT unit generally delivers the applications, data and technology infrastructure to
implement the solutions. This process goes wrong in the following ways. First the strategy isn't
always clear enough to act upon. General statements about the importance of "leveraging
synergies" or getting close to the customer are difficult to implement. So the company builds IT
solution rather than IT capabilities.
Even if the strategy is clear enough to act upon, the company implements it in a piece meal,
sequential process. Strategic initiative in a separate IT solution.
As IT is always reacting to the latest strategic initiative, IT is always a bottleneck.
3) List three reasons why a companys business process might go wrong without a good
Foundation for Execution.
A) a) the business company lacks its agility for every new innovative strategy an is to be started
from the scratch.
b) The company having different business processors completing the same task, each with a
different system.
c) A particular set of people's work is to collect data from one set of systems, manipulating it and
entering into another system without transfer option.
The companies without an effective foundation for execution face serious competitive and
regulatory threats.

4) List the three key disciplines that companies must master in order to build an effective
foundation for execution.
A) a) Operating model: The operating model is the necessary level of business process
integration and standardization for delivering goods and services to customers.
b) Enterprise architecture: The enterprise architecture is the organizing logic for business
processes and IT infrastructure, reflecting the integration and standardization requirements of the
company's operating model.
c) IT engagement model: The IT engagement model is the system of governance mechanisms
that ensure business and IT projects achieve both local and companywide objectives.

5)

List three reasons why a Foundation for Execution is important.

A) The study found that the companies with a solid foundation had a higher profitability, faster
time to market and lower IT costs. These outcomes are universally beneficial and timeless.
a) As the growing complexity in companies systems can fossilize Operations
b) The business agility increasingly depends on a Foundation for Execution
c) Current National and political environments Demand Business Discipline
6) Briefly discuss why the choice of an operating model is a critical decision for a company.
A) The company has clear their identity and executives to focus their attention on the future
developing market .The level of operating model will be a great aspect for integration and
standardization for services to the customers. Individuals companies have their own level of
process integration across their business units. The operation of the company mainly deals with
this model as the management must decide the extent to which business units will perform the
same processes the same way. Process standardization creates efficiencies across business units
but limits opportunities to customize services.
7) On p.13 of the text, under the section Building a Foundation is Less Risky. the author
states that most companies
Dont have to make massive investments in their foundation.
State whether you agree or disagree with this statement and briefly defend your opinion
A) I completely agree with the authors opinion as the most companies don't have to make
massive investments in their foundation as it was an initial and one time investment which will
make a probable differ in the company marketing economy. As the advance technology has
grown up from day to day the planning for foundation has spent a smarter side rather than more
investment and companies can move a running project steadily with a change in their executions.
And as the foundations becomes stronger the cost of IT decrease and business efficiencies
increase, paying dividends on the original investment.

8) What is Rationalizing the IT Infrastructure?

A) Rationalization is the process to fulfill the objectives of any corporative companies by
transformative process involving consolidate multinational systems to improve its efficiency,
reduce costs and enforce common methods. It exercise helps the organization to identify what
stands to move towards as they eliminate the complexities and silos they have built up over the
years along with the specific technologies that will help them reach there.
They allow to connect with the technology & applications.
Implementing best practice business models.
To improve business visibility, agility and efficiency.
Rationalizing involves understanding the current state of an organizations IT portfolio and
business processes and then mapping business capabilities.

9) At Dell, what was the Enterprise Vision?

A) In Dells case the Enterprise vision team began by establishing a blueprint to
guide individual projects. This blueprint laid out the structure of the enterprise in
terms of its strategy, goals, objectives, operating model, capabilities, business
processes, information assets, and governance.
Using the blueprint, enterprise architects can now inventory all applications and the underlying
technology currently in use, and then map the applications to business capabilities to identify
omissions and redundancies. Completing an inventory and mapping exercise has revealed
overlapping and duplicate applications that are now candidates for consolidation. Dells
Enterprise Architecture team includes business architects, information architects, application
architects, and infrastructure specialists.
10) Briefly discuss the idea of physical processes vs. business processes.
A) Organizations struggle with IT complexity. Dell is forging a new path to simplify IT by
building a low-touch uniform infrastructure spanning the desktop to the data center. Dell is
building a methodology by which an IT organization can measure its operational efficiency,
manageability, and flexibility to pinpoint ways to streamline how IT is acquired, maintained, and
scaled. Dell IT simplification helps reduce the cost and complexity of maintaining systems,
enabling organizations to reclaim the time, money, and personnel needed to drive true innovation
into daily business processes.
The Rationalization of IT infrastructure, transformative process by Enterprise Architectures,
customers value chain, physical process like business architecture consider logical process and
cross domain capabilities. Three years road maps, creating Business /IT alignment, Centre of
Excellence and mainly a foundation for Execution will be a great ideas of physical and business
process for the success of the DELL.