ABSTRACT
Enterprise architecture frameworks provide a potentially useful way of simplifying and abstracting an enterprise’s complexity by decomposing it into its major constituent components, each representing a discrete view, and by linking them together into an interconnected whole, by utilizing associated theory. Despite the efforts of researchers in many fields over the past half- century, the design and management of enterprises remains as much art as science. The complex structure and behavioral dynamics of enterprises makes it difficult to untangle the relationship between form and behavior; changes to one aspect of an enterprise’s structure, incentives, or strategy can affect its behavior in seemingly unrelated areas at distant points in time. One approach to developing an abstraction of the enterprise is the practice of enterprise architecting. Enterprise architecting holds that the enterprise can be both understood and designed by employing the construct of enterprise architecture as a unifying conceptual framework.
