ABSTRACT
Introduction Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been in SIM’s peripheral vision for many years. SIM’s IT Complexity Reduction Working Group wrote a report in 1999 titled Enterprise Architecture Requirements for Information Technology Vendors.1 Professor and former SIM board member Jerry Luftman’s assessment of “IT-business strategic alignment maturity” included the degree to which “the enterprise architecture is integrated.”2 Professor Kate Kaiser, who led a “SIM study of 104 CIOs to determine their skill needs through 2008,” found that “there is much more emphasis on the business domain,” and went on to rank “enterprise architecture” at the top of the “business domain” skills.3 An article titled “Enterprise Architecture Maturity: The Story of the Veterans Health Administration” was published in 2007 in the SIM-affiliated research journal, MIS Quarterly Executive (MISQE).4
