Chapter 3

The Value of the Business Architecturein Strategy Execution

In This Chapter:

  • Defining the Enterprise Architecture

  • Defining the Business Architecture

  • Business Architects

  • Architecture Frameworks

  • Creating the Business Architecture

  • Challenges

  • Best Practices

In today’s world of global competition and mergers and acquisitions, organizations are large, complex, and often in some state of chaos. Business processes and IT systems have been built from the ground up as businesses rapidly changed and evolved. As business entities have increased in complexity, they have begun to employ engineering principles to assist in managing organizational complexity and change. Engineering disciplines have historically used blueprints and architectural drawings ...

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