Strategic planning is more difficult than ever. Today's volatile economic environment means that IT must plan quickly, more flexibly, and more thoroughly. Plans that don't follow this path quickly become obsolete — sometimes even before they're completed. For years, planning teams have relied on sources of information of varying quality and sluggish manual processes to create their IT plans. But now, a group of tools from the enterprise architecture (EA) arena is emerging with the goal of making IT planning a quicker, more flexible, and more thoroughly aligned process.