By North Highland
Enterprise Architecture gets defined as many different things – the Wikipedia definition takes up an entire slide. Jason Bloomberg, renowned architect/blogger remarks that nothing entertains an Enterprise Architect as much as a good old debate about what Enterprise Architecture is. For the sake of simplicity the important thing about Enterprise Architecture that compels me to write this blog, is that it involves visual models. Target State diagrams, Roadmaps, Customer Journeys, Logical Function models… all sorts of models that get produced, not exclusively, by Enterprise Architects. Models are a representation of something about an organisation that enables people to describe what’s going on, what needs to change, or even where-there-be-dragons. Using models helps condense and simplify. After all picture tells a thousand words.
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