In Aesop's fable, “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” the frugal ant laid up food for winter and survived when it got cold. The grasshopper didn't and died when its food ran out.
Today's CIOs must be more like the ant, but they also need a bit of grasshopper in them. They must balance the need their organizations have for immediate and impactful value from IT, while at the same time building the business technology foundation that will insure long-term business value and capabilities.
In today's hypercompetitive marketplaces, CEOs, CFOs and CIOs have to be convinced that their business technology investments and environments will produce real business advantages for them, over the short and long term. These leaders increasingly recognize the value in employing a well-conceived and constructed enterprise architecture as a necessary prerequisite for the success of any major investment or project. In the same way that no builder worth his salt would erect a building without an architectural blueprint, no CIO should put their organization or themselves at risk without an architectural technology blueprint to serve as a guiding light.
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