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Doing Enterprise-Architecture: A Maturity-Model Guide to Architecture Development
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Doing Enterprise-Architecture: A Maturity-Model Guide to Architecture Development

by Tom Graves, Slade Beard
October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
641 pages
16h 37m
English
Apress
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T. Graves, S. BeardDoing Enterprise-Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1757-1_1

1. The Quest for Effectiveness

Tom Graves1   and Slade Beard2
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How do we make our organizations more effective?

How do we help our organizations get better at achieving their desired outcomes in a fast-changing world?

And before that, how do we get better at identifying what “effective” and “better” and “desired-outcomes” will mean in our own business-context?

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