Featured Research Paper  2009 Baseline/BTM 500
The Value of Convergence
Enterprises that have achieved business-technology convergence can respond nimbly to change and use their superior performance to leapfrog over less-agile competitors and position themselves for future growth. There is no doubt about it: To meet strategic goals, companies are drilling down to core management processes as a means of delivering results to the business. By exercising effective governance over these goals and the technology that underlies them, companies are able to maintain competitive advantage, increase operational efficiency and improve financial performance-making these objectives part of an organization’s DNA. 
Featured Journal 
The Extended Enterprise This issue contains strategic research and leadership know-how from industry experts, academics, and both business and technology executives from the private sector focused on expanding your organization through an extended enterprises, along with an executive agenda that highlights what is needed to develop the appropriate strategy needed to achieve success through utilization of external partners and a collaborative effort with service providers. This journal outlines why and how an organization must consider extending itself beyond its walls to maintain a competitive edge in the market – regardless of their industry. 
Featured Research Series  Business Technology Disconnect
The End-to-End Perspective
THE PURPOSE OF THE ACTIVITIES OF BTM—business model definition, process optimization, and technology automation—is to help companies develop an end-to-end perspective of enterprise architecture. The way to do this is by putting modeling to work during the design stage of projects. This helps companies work out how business, process, and technology will fit together before beginning costly implementation.
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