Enterprise Architecture strategy and governance

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Enterprise Architecture strategy and governance

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Review of enterprise architecture literature.....................................................................................3
Evaluation of relationship between architects and their stakeholders have been successful...........5
Implications for EA practices and the training and recruitment of architects.................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Enterprise Architecture is a very crucial field that has been claimed by many organizations,
however, comprehended and implemented by very few of them. The concept of enterprise
architecture is relatively new but the activities associated with it have always been very
significant for the effective planning of business in any organization. This concept has emerged
as a very discrete strategy when business organizations started to realize the importance of
individuals who were highly skilled and accountable for structuring, building and executing the
computer systems were found to be missing crucial opportunities.
These opportunities could provide them with scope to integrate such systems completely into the
entire business framework and facilitate outcomes which could be appreciated. Identifying and
evaluating new concepts and ideas across the business organization is the initial step in the
process of strategic planning of any successful business organization. It is the team of enterprise
architecture that evaluates the concepts and ideas with high priority and devises a business case
that assists in pursuing the idea.
In this paper, the literature associated with enterprise architecture shall be reviewed. Further,
there will be evaluation of the relationship between the enterprise architects and their
stakeholders in the context of analyzing the most effective ways for approaching the governance
of enterprise architecture initiatives. There shall be illustrations of various implications for the
practice of enterprise architecture along with the training and recruitment of architects in the
paper.
Review of enterprise architecture literature
In the stated literature by Simon etc al, 2013, the practitioners and scholars of enterprise
architecture happen to be very sensitive to the relevance of research of the concept to the
community of enterprise architecture practitioner (Simon, Fischbach & Schoder, 2013). In
accordance to it has been observed through this literature, “Rozanski, N., & Woods, E. (2007).
Software Systems Architecture – Working with Stakeholders using Viewpoints and
Perspectives”, that there is an ingoing argument over the prioritizing of frameworks and methods
of enterprise architecture governance in a more practical manner or conduct research that would
balance the existing narrowed technical concentration of the current research with more focused