Adrian Grigoriu - An Enterprise Architecture Development Framework

Copyright 2005-20011 by Adrian Grigoriu

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I enjoyed reading this book. It was as if Grigoriu had laid out all the business and IT elements that make up an enterprise on a table and then played around until he could fit them all together into a single cube an ingenious effort at puzzle solving

I would happily recommend this book to anyone who is already an experienced enterprise architect. This book is an excellent graduate review that will force you to think through lots of issues and consider how you might address them in your own architecture.

I would also recommend this book to someone who was interested in the issues involved in building a business case for an Enterprise Architecture effort the sections on benefits and costs are excellent and comprehensive

and Id also recommend this book to someone who wanted to learn more about how to classify stakeholders. The section on strategy and stakeholders is outstanding.

Paul Harmon, the Executive Editor of Business Process Trends (www.bptrends.com), a recognized BPM analyst and consultant and the author of Business Process Change.

The Problem : today's unresponding legacy Enterprise in a world of increasingly increasing complexity, amount of information, rate of change and competition.

The Solution : the Enterprise Architecture (EA) offering streamlining, alignment, blueprinting, strategic planning, and agility through SOA, the target state of the Enterprise.

The book describes:

drivers, benefits and Business Case for an EA evaluating financial Payback and NPV

the Return on Enterprise Architecture (RoEA)

RoEA = Revenue arch /Costs arch

Revenue noarch /Costs noarch

a Single Page Enterprise Architecture, a synoptic view of the Enterprise operation

Enterprise reference maps, covering business and technology architecture templates

alignment of your on-going solutions architecture projects to the Enterprise Architecture

a navigable EA framework and its metamodel describing the Value Chains, Business & Operating Models, Functions and Flows resourced by Organization and Technology layers

classification of and mapping to other EA frameworks: Zachman, TOGAF, DoDAF

a unifying view of EA, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA ), Value Chains, Business Models, Processes (BPM ) and IT Architecture , patching the divide between the Business and IT

a best practices process for building the EA and SOA,, an EA development exercise, and how to use the framework for ITIL, M&A, Outsourcing, Start-ups

EA patterns, inhibitors, maturity models, politics & sell

a Strategy specification process and alignment to business activities, organization and technology .

There are a few books that take a broad perspective, but most focus on creating an IT architecture. An Enterprise Architecture Development Framework, by Adrian Grigoriu, is a pleasant exception. Grigoriu takes a very comprehensive view of things and works to show how everything can be integrated within a broadly conceived view of things .

Paul Harmon, the Executive Editor of Business Process Trends (www.bptrends.com).