The various parts of county government are united by a simple, powerful goal: improving community welfare. However, aligning to a unified vision becomes an increasingly complicated management exercise as organizations grow and decision-making power decentralizes. The most unified organizations leverage complex enterprise architecture practices to act as systems which provide unprecedented levels of organizational resource awareness, and enable informed, optimized decision-making. Getting to this point is a daunting undertaking and requires involvement of a wide variety of organizational stakeholders – and more often than not IT leaders do not know where to begin. With this course, county IT leaders will be guided through the variety of options for achieving enterprise architecture with the goal of identifying an approach that makes sense for their organization. Participants will also learn about universally accepted enterprise architecture principles, and how to institute a program that overcomes organizational resistance, and bridges the gap between organizational needs and IT capabilities.