The heart of the genome structure is that it makes the case as a living model. A blueprint falls short because it’s a rigid, ...

No enterprise today can afford to spend a year or more incorporating digital technology into its core. The technology and the competition move too fast. Yet most Fortune 500 companies take at ...

Enterprise architecture is needed across the business, for the business, by the business. ... The team's mandate: "link the digital design plans to business strategy and capabilities building." 2.

Enterprise architecture "frameworks" are plans for organizing data about the enterprise and, more important, they facilitate getting meaningful answers for business people. For example, when the ...

Instead, in April 2015, the four company leaders sat down together for a postmortem. They concluded that they would have to approach the problem differently. They’d still need a top-to-bottom overhaul ...

The equivalent “zone plan” in enterprise architecture is the infrastructure patterns, which define the technical infrastructure required for specific purposes (e.g., n-tier client/server for ...

4. An ability to transform knowledge into leadership. Traditionally, most enterprise architects presented themselves as senior data center-focused IT experts possessing years, or even decades, of ...

Modern enterprise architecture, however, demands the mindset of an urban planner: someone who lays out guiding principles, fosters a shared vision and enables diverse teams to shape their ...

In 2014, the words “enterprise architecture” (EA) have come to mean a lot of things. I've seen people use them to refer to a reference diagram, an infrastructure plan or an approach to governance.

There may be some state or local government somewhere that won't eventually need to develop its own information technology enterprise architecture plan, but it's hard to see who that would be if ...