Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

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Implement theOperating Model viaEnterprise Architecture

IN 1884 Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. fortune, bought a six-room house in Santa Clara while it was still under construction. She quickly discarded the building plans and instead met with her foreman every morning to describe the work she wanted done that day. With no master plan, she kept twenty-two carpenters at work, year round—for thirty-six years! The house had three elevators, forty-seven fireplaces, rooms built around rooms, staircases leading to nowhere, doors opening to blank walls, doors opening to steep drops to the lawn below, and a variety of ...