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MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCES (MoHR)
ICT STRATEGIC PLAN 2014 - 2018

12.7 INITIATIVE 2.1 - Formulation of MoHR Enterprise
Architecture Framework

The intent of Enterprise Architecture Framework (EA) is to ensure and

sustain the alignment between business and ICT, the information about
the relationships between the EA assets will become useful when there

is a need to study the impact of change. In any enterprise, change can be
driven either by business or IT or anyone. Examples are as follows:

1) A business-driven change may be a new policy or strategy.
With the EA repository, the business organisations can

analyse the impact of such change on IT, that is, the
Application, Data and Technology architectures.

2) An IT-driven change could be due to some technology

change. With the EA repository, the IT organisation can
analyse the impact of such change on the business.

3) Hence, by cataloguing the EA Assets and modelling their

relationship will make it easier to study impact of any
change. The productivity of analysing impact is further

improved with the use of the EA software.

4) MoHR’s specific purpose of EA are as follows:

· To support the implementation of the specified
MoHR twenty-five (25) ICT Initiatives that requires

details assessment and their associated relationships

and impact to the business functions, business
processes, data architecture, data & system

integrations across the entire MoHR machineries.

· To improve MoHR service delivery means improving
expected service outcome to be received by the

customer. EA in a way involves in connecting people,

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