英文情景题第1套

 

You are serving as the Lead Architect in a multinational company that operates production facilities in 24countries and sells its products in over 100 countries. It has three sectors: Transportation, EnergySystems, and Automation. Each sector has several business units that operate independently. AnExecutive Vice President heads each of the business units. Traditionally, each business unit has actedindependently with few shared customers or suppliers. They were expected to share financial and humanresource information from the corporate headquarters.A consultancy firm has recommended a realignment that will enhance sharing of product informationacross business units. The implementation of this strategic realignment will require the development ofintegrated customer information systems and product information systems.The company has a mature enterprise architecture practice and uses the TOGAF standard as the basis forits method and deliverables. An architecture development program has been created to address thedevelopment of these capabilities and is about to commence. The enterprise architecture program issponsored by the CIO.At the most recent meeting of the Corporate Board, the Chairman of the Board expressed a concern aboutthe risk to the business while a potentially disruptive program is being rolled out across the company. Henoted that several competitors had tried similar initiatives with poor results. The Corporate Board agreedthat this concern must be satisfactorily addressed before this program can commence.