MAY 2016CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM8Enterprise Architecture-An Extremely Valuable Discipline for Great BusinessesKen Spangler, SVP & CIO-FedEx Ground and FedEx Freight, FedEx Services IToday Information Technology is well established as an essential contributor to business success. Modern advancements in technology enable businesses to quickly meet almost any market opportunity or need, often allowing an enterprise to reach entirely new market segments through the digital and mobile capabilities enabled by this world of extreme connectedness. FedEx is an enterprise established on a foundation of connectedness, as we are in the business of connecting people and possibilities around the world.The acceleration of technology within businesses today introduces new levels of responsibility for business and technology leaders to properly direct, apply, and manage the use of technology to capitalize on the opportunities of a new digital world. There are increased pressures to quickly implement new capabilities and improve agility, without neglecting key legacy footprints or endangering the rock solid performance achieved in the existing business.In fact, bridging the old and new is one of the most daunting challenges any technology enabled enterprise has today. How do we take all of the complex technology enabled business capabilities that have been built across many years and move into modern solutions that enable the speed and agility that all businesses need today? While many would correctly argue that there is no silver bullet to address this challenge, there is clearly a key enabler to accelerate this relentless focus on modern Enterprise Architecture (EA). EA is essential to building modern technology solutions that deliver maximum value for businesses to serve the needs of their customers and support the fast paced change required to meet the rapidly evolving demands of the world today.In My OpinionT
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