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	January 7, 2009 Choose From Five Basic Approaches To Business Architecture Based On Your Context And Goals by Jeff Scott with Gene Leganza, Katie Smillie, Mimi An, Matt Czarnecki	Average: 9  (6 ratings)

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Executive Summary

As interest in business architecture grows, multiple approaches are evolving. Architects are blending a wide variety of generic models to develop business architectures that are specific to their environment and organizational context. Organizational scope, business architecture goals, and EA's viewpoint also drive architects to produce unique business architecture views. In addition, architects are iteratively developing, validating, and refining their business architectures to create products that resonate with their stakeholders' needs. All of this creativity is resulting in widely divergent perspectives on business architecture. Business architecture approaches and artifacts will diverge even more as architects become more business knowledgeable and generate architectures that align tightly with their company's business model. Forrester doesn't believe that any one business architecture approach is likely to dominate in the near future; architects will have to chart their own course through the business architecture landscape.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Business Architecture Models Are Evolving
• Different Goals Create Multiple Approaches
• Different Approaches Produce Multiple Views
• Planning Your Business Architecture Approach

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Let The Business Show You The Way

WHAT IT MEANS

• Don't Wait For Industry Business Architecture Models; Build Your Own
• Supplemental Material
• Related Research Documents

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