Why Enterprise Architecture & Innovation Centers of Excellence Are Beneficial

The Center of Excellence (CoE) is a broad set of activities, delivered alongside tooling to embed the use of software tools to support the Governance of future IT project design. The CoE helps achieve a business as usual status use of enterprise architecture and innovation management models.
To achieve this goal, a series of activities must take place to allow the transition from a set of reactive data capture activities to a proactive use of the tool in Governing future IT development and being a trusted component of the delivery lifecycle.
The following section outlines the activities, responsibilities and skills required to make the Center of Excellence a reality.