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    Enterprise Architecture: A Pocket Guide
    Enterprise Architecture: A Pocket Guide
    Enterprise Architecture: A Pocket Guide
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    Enterprise Architecture: A Pocket Guide

    By Tom Graves

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    This pocket guide offers you an invaluable introduction to this business-critical subject. It explains the function of enterprise architecture within the organisation, looks at the skills needed within the enterprise architecture team and provides an overview of the most common enterprise architecture frameworks. 

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheritgovernance
    Release dateJun 16, 2009
    ISBN9781849281133
    Enterprise Architecture: A Pocket Guide
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    Tom Graves

    Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for almost three decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australia and the US cover a broad range of industries, including banking, utilities, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in architecture for non-IT-centric enterprises, and integration between IT-based and non-IT-based services.

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      A quick overlook on the IT and Business architecture and different frameworks, very high level that points to different ressources for more details
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      its a easy read for introduction to enterprise architecture. Good to begin understand about enterprise architecture and overview for EA frame work TOGAF

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    Enterprise Architecture - Tom Graves

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    PREFACE

    Organisations have structure. These structures are usually arrived at through evolution, mostly in response to changing markets, competitive challenges and tightening regulatory environments. This evolutionary – sometimes ad hoc – process for structuring organisations doesn’t always produce an organisational structure that is as competitive or effective as it might be.

    Enterprise architecture is the discipline that enables organisations to understand and plan, logically, how to structure business capabilities and processes, information resources, business systems and the technical infrastructure within an organisation to most effectively support the longer-term business strategy.

    While enterprise architecture is often thought of as a component of IT governance, it can be so much more; the effective application of enterprise architecture can contribute to optimisation of the business itself and, consequently, to real improvements in business productivity and performance.

    In the challenging economic climate faced by all organisations in the first and second decades of the twenty-first century, the use of an enterprise architecture could make all the difference between long-term success and failure. This pocket guide provides a timely and thorough introduction to, and overview of, this business-critical subject.

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for almost three decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australia and the US cover a broad range of industries, including banking, utilities, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in architecture for non-IT-centric enterprises, and integration between IT-based and non-IT-based services.

    CONTENTS

    INTRODUCTION

    Enterprise architecture is a key competency for most large organisations of the present day. Its roots reach back some twenty years or more, in early efforts to reuse knowledge about software structure and design to assist in managing a rapid growth in the cost and complexity of IT systems in general. Compliance to a formal enterprise architecture framework is now mandatory in many government and defence contexts, and is increasingly common in other larger organisations.

    For most of its history, enterprise architecture has been regarded as belonging under IT governance. At the present time the

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