Presentation
Enterprise Architecture within the Context of Overall Organizational Strategy
The Presidential Management Agenda (PMA) is geared towards transforming federal agencies to become results-oriented, citizen-centered and market-based entities. It includes five government-wide and nine agency specific initiatives to improve the overall performance of federal government.

Expanded Electronic Government (E-Gov) is one of the government-wide initiatives to provide significant productivity and performance gains across agencies through effective planning of IT investments. A significant finding that came out during electronic government (E-Gov) effort was the necessity for a federal enterprise architecture that can provide a comprehensive view into what an agency does, and how it performs its business activities; and how the IT systems support those activities.

During the last decade, the role of enterprise architecture has expanded from a mere technical blueprint of IT systems and infrastructure to include other aspects related to business-technology alignment. In fact, enterprise architecture has become an inseparable aspect of an organization’s overall strategy. Therefore, it is essential that agency executives, business managers and architects understand how enterprise architecture fits within the context of overall organizational strategy.

This presentation introduces McKinsey's 7-S framework for evaluating an agency's organizational effectiveness and describes how enterprise architecture integrates with the overall organizational strategy.