Developing a Method to Leverage FEAF by Deploying Val IT Enablers

Federal enterprise architecture framework (FEAF), as a known EA framework, can describe baseline and target states and provide a sequencing plan to migrate from baseline state and achieve expected goals. Enterprises need information technology (IT) investments to reach target state. Nowadays with the increasingly importance of IT, a significant number of organizational leaders are questioning IT’s return on investment (ROI). Despite the complete description of baseline and target states of the enterprise, the lack of robust management and governance on IT investments and also lack of the value management practices during transition to target state, will prevent from successful execution and usage of EA and optimal value realization for enterprise. Since Val IT as a standard framework helps enterprises to realize value from their investments actually, the present paper aims to to leverage FEAF in terms of governance on optimal value realization from IT investments by developing a method with the use of Val IT2.0 abilities. It is also aimed to indicate that by utilizing Val IT with FEAF in EA projects, enterprises will be enabled to realize and sustain optimal value from their investments at an affordable cost with an acceptable level of risk

Keywords:

Val IT , FEAF , Value , Investment , ROI