This case study follows the best practice based implementation of enterprise architecture in an enterprise driven by its strategy.
Can Enterprise Architecture be used to implement a business' strategy?
This case study explores the answer to this question using a novel approach to enterprise architecture.
First it proposes a deviation from the traditional view of enterprise architecture as a model and proposes viewing it as a rule based restriction on design freedom. Then, it formulates said rules to shape the enterprise architecture of a global enterprise. This document presents this approach with a set of consistent and coherent enterprise architecture principles.
The foundation of this approach is thinking of enterprise architecture as not just an information technology but an enterprise-wide construct. Then answering the question “How can business strategy and best practices be captured correctly using an Enterprise Architecture?”
- How do we articulate enterprise objectives?
- How do we capture enterprise best practices?
- How do we govern IT and business design using enterprise architecture principles?
- How do we manage enterprise architecture principles over time?
This enterprise architecture implementation answers these questions by focusing on the following:
- What are the guidelines to formulate EA principles?
- How to design the business architecture framework to help organize these EA principles?
- How to raise EA awareness in the enterprise?
- How to develop enterprise architecture principles?
This approach gets us to the answer using a more practical approach to developing an enterprise architecture instead of the more complicated one using architecture frameworks and tools.
