Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

Preface andAcknowledgments

In 1995 we started our study of enterprise architecture—we just didn’t know it. At the time we thought we were studying information technology infrastructure transformations. In 1998 we thought we were studying enterprise system implementations. In 2000 it was e-business. But sometime in 2000, we recognized that each of these studies examined basically the same thing: enterprise architecture. We saw a pattern across those studies of what smart and profitable companies did differently. These companies made a commitment to a way of operating, and they were using IT to digitize that commitment. These companies kept getting ...