Leverage complex enterprise architecture practices to enable informed, optimized decision-making
344 IT Enterprise Governance 

The various parts of county government are united by a simple, powerful goal: improving community welfare. However, aligning to a unified vision becomes an increasingly complicated management exercise as organizations grow and decision-making power decentralizes. The most unified organizations will leverage complex enterprise architecture practices to act as systems which provide unprecedented levels of organizational resource awareness, and enable highly informed, optimized decision-making. For county IT leaders, getting to this point is an incredibly daunting undertaking which requires the involvement of a wide variety of organizational stakeholders, and more often than not IT leaders do not know where to begin. With this course, county IT leaders will be guided through the variety of options for achieving enterprise architecture with the goal of identifying an approach that makes sense for their organization. Participants will also learn about universally accepted enterprise architecture principles, and how to institute a program that overcomes organizational resistance, and bridges the gap between organizational needs and IT capabilities.

Instructor: Steve Monaghan, Chief Information Officer for Nevada County.