Why CIOs Fail at Increasing Awareness Through Enterprise Architecture

This is the third article of a nice series of discussions about enterprise architecture. It gives explanations of why enterprise architecture still lacks enough attention in practice, despite of all the good things we hear about EA in the class. The analysis also shows how fear and politics come to play a part in CIOs' decision in real life. According to the first article, most companies are still struggling in the first level of a three-stage IT maturity: getting technology to work at all.One of the reasons that prevents enterprises from advancing to the next level is 'the difficulty of convincing others to join the party'. In addition, CIOs face 'the fear of performing an analysis' because the negative outcomes about inefficiency, waste and unreasonable practices will eventually take political hits on them.

Here's a list of articles in that series:

[1]: http://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2011/06/07/how-enterprise-architecture-raises-its-game/

[2]: http://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2011/06/20/enterprise-architecture-moving-from-chaos-to-business-value/

[3]: http://blogs.forbes.com/ciocentral/2011/06/23/why-cios-fail-at-increasing-awareness-through-enterprise-architecture/