- 12 June, 2008 08:19 AM EST
- New Thinking on the EBA
Author: Betsy Burton, Research VP
I had the opportunity on Wednesday at the EA Summit to present Gartner's new thinking and new research on enterprise business architecture (EBA). Gartner defines EBA as that part of the EA process that describes - through a set of requirements, principles and models - the future state, the current state, and the guidance necessary to flexibly evolve and optimize business dimensions (the people, processes, financials and organizations) to achieve effective enterprise change. The critical change is the inclusion of the new dimensions.
The goal of defining EBA is to ensure that changes and enhancements to business functions, process, financials, people and organizational structure are fully optimized along with information and technology, in support of the business strategy. During the session, I received several, very interesting questions about the role of business architects, and asking for EBA artifact samples. During this session I referenced several research notes and toolkits that I thought might be interesting to those of you focused on EBA.
"Understand Enterprise Business Architecture to Realize Your Future State"
"Toolkit: Bank XYZ Business Anchor Model"
"Provide Appropriate Support Based on Impact Segmentation"
"Person-to-Process Interaction Emerges as the 'Process of Me'"
"Recognize the New Stakeholder: The Individual"
"CIOs and IT Leaders: Prepare for the 'Pull' Mind-Set of Consumer IT"
"Gartner Enterprise Architecture Framework: Evolution 2005"
