Business and IT alignment remains a top priority for CIOs and their peers. While many CIOs have made significant progress in gaining a seat at the strategy table, a gap remains in organizing and illuminating executive business thinking in a way that drives consistent understanding throughout the organization. Business capability models are providing many organizations with a new approach to deepen the strategic dialogue between business and IT leaders and increase strategic alignment.

A&G Editor Jonas Lamis sits down with Frank Malta, Executive Director of EA and Chief Architect at Merck.  They discuss enterprise business capability modeling at Merck and Frank provides advice to EA teams looking to get traction on their EA efforts.