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Navigating Complexity with Enterprise Architecture Management
Abstract
Enterprises are like living creatures in the ecosystem – there are vast varieties of species; each individual in any species is unique, complex, dynamic, and constantly interacting with its ever-changing environment. Also, like living creatures, enterprises have many commonalities. These commonalities exist in all enterprises, regardless of their business, size, environment, culture, lifecycle stage, or any other factor. Enterprise Architecture (EA) management helps enterprises discover their commonalities, adopt best practices to manage the commonalities, and apply holistic and systemic approaches to tackling unique complexity encountered by enterprises. This chapter extracts thinking from many thought leaders in the EA discipline and consolidates a dynamic and multi-dimensional alignment approach to managing an enterprise’s architecture as a living system. This integrated approach utilizes the “Fractal” concept in Chaos Theory and identifies six common alignment dimensions in enterprises. This approach includes dynamic alignment mechanisms to help enterprises navigate the increasingly complex and ever-changing world. This approach bridges individual alignments with enterprise optimization. A fictional example of a disaster relief operation is used to illustrate how the EA approach could help a relief enterprise navigate through the complexity and dynamics of the disaster relief operation to achieve life-saving results.
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