Enterprise Architecture: A Pocket Guide

PREFACE

Organisations have structure. These structures are usually arrived at through evolution, mostly in response to changing markets, competitive challenges and tightening regulatory environments. This evolutionary – sometimes ad hoc – process for structuring organisations doesn’t always produce an organisational structure that is as competitive or effective as it might be.

Enterprise architecture is the discipline that enables organisations to understand and plan, logically, how to structure business capabilities and processes, information resources, business systems and the technical infrastructure within an organisation to most effectively support the longer-term business strategy.

While enterprise architecture is often thought of as ...