Enterprise Architecture

What on earth is Enterprise Architecture and, more to the point, of what value is it?

Enterprise Architecture is about the design of businesses, companies and organisations — especially the large and complex. However, hardly anyone ever designs an enterprise; more often than not they simply grow to the point at which they are perceived as inefficient (in absolute terms or relative to competitors) or unsupportive of further growth and so found to be in need of a re-design — at which point careful and methodical consideration of the organisational goals, resources,

Enterprise Architecture, though frequently applied to the IT infrastructure of an organisation, is properly about the design and strategy

Enterprise Architecture is to the design of the business infrastructure as Project & Programme Management are to the delivery of the business objectives: quality assurance tools and methodologies.