Enterprise Architecture (EA) knowledge refers to the understanding of the organization’s IT infrastructure, applications, and processes in the context of the overall business strategy. Effective EA knowledge can help organizations optimize their IT investments, improve IT agility, and achieve desired business outcomes.
EA knowledge may include:
Effective EA knowledge requires a deep understanding of the organization’s business goals, as well as the IT infrastructure and applications that support these goals. IT executives should ensure that their EA knowledge is well-documented and communicated to relevant stakeholders across the organization.
The Enterprise Architecture (EA) Knowledge category within the CIO Reference Library provides CIOs and other IT executives with a comprehensive set of resources that illustrate effective EA knowledge practices. This category includes a range of resources, such as articles, whitepapers, and case studies, that offer insights into different aspects of EA knowledge, such as understanding business goals, assessing IT infrastructure, evaluating application portfolios, optimizing IT processes, and establishing governance frameworks. By leveraging these resources, CIOs and IT executives can gain a deeper understanding of effective EA knowledge practices and optimize their IT investments to achieve desired business outcomes.
This paper introduces a simple framework to select an enterprise architecture management tool, then uses the tool to evaluate common tools in the market today.
This document provides a standard approach to federal enterprise architecture (FEA) implementation – principles and standards for how business, information, and technology architectures should be developed across the enterprise so they can be used consistently at various levels of scope within and between domains/departments/divisions, as well as with external stakeholders.
Navigate the complex landscape of Enterprise Architecture (EA) with this comprehensive guide. Understand EA scope, principles, governance, and its impact on IT strategy. An essential read for CIOs and IT leaders aiming to optimize their organizations.
This paper presents a quick definition of enterprise architecture (EA) in the context of business value and transformation. What is enterprise architecture? Why is enterprise architecture important?
This paper presents a simple approach for enterprise architecture planning that keeps its effectiveness but reduces the complexity associated with other approaches such as MDA and UML based modelling approaches.
This presentation defines and describes enterprise architecture planning, discusses its benefits and introduces common enterprise architecture frameworks. What is enterprise architecture planning? Why is enterprise architecture planning important? What are the common enterprise architecture planning frameworks?
This paper introduces enterprise architecture planning and makes a case for it as a critical enabler of business transformation. Good Read!
This in-depth guide to enterprise architecture planning provides guidance on almost all aspects of designing, and implementing an enterprise architecture. What is enterprise architecture planning? Why is enterprise architecture planning important? What are some common enterprise architecture frameworks? How to implement enterprise architecture step-by-step? What is enterprise architecture governance? How to implement enterprise architecture governance? What are the key roles in enterprise architecture? (300 Pages)
This article argues for a simple approach to enterprise architecture planning because complexity is a value destroyer. So, the author makes the case for minimalism in enterprise architecture planning and suggests best practices to get maximum business value from EA.
Enterprise Architecture is to an organization what architecture is to a house, right? The author takes this analogy to a whole new level in this paper. A very good read to understand enterprise architecture planning in a context that most people can understand.
