Enterprise Architecture Articles

Check out the Enterprise Architecture Articles that our EA Principals team has written to provide guidance, advice and insights on the Enterprise Architecture industry.

How Trauma Center Challenges Inform Enterprise Architecture Strategies in Healthcare

Introduction Trauma centers face unique operational, technical, and organizational challenges that provide valuable lessons for shaping effective enterprise architecture (EA) strategies in healthcare. By analyzing these challenges, healthcare organizations can design EA frameworks that address systemic inefficiencies, improve patient outcomes, and support sustainable digital transformation[1][2][3]. Key Trauma Center Challenges Lessons for Enterprise Architecture Strategies 1. […]Read More

EA Perspectives and Stories: Modernization and Transformation Through the Architecture Prism

For over 25 years, my journey through Gartner’s ITXpo/Symposium and a spectrum of their technology events—Data and Analytics, Application Innovation, Infrastructure Cloud and Operations, Security/Risk—has always been through the lens of an Enterprise Architect. This vantage point, shaped by countless conversations with conference vendors and analysts/presenters like Mark MacDonald at Gartner, has continually reaffirmed one […]Read More

Becoming Philosophical Architects: The Essential Upskilling Required to Lead in a PhilOps™ Future

Introduction As enterprises accelerate toward intelligent automation, AI governance, and values-driven innovation, the role of architects is undergoing a profound metamorphosis. No longer tasked solely with aligning IT to business, architects must now help align technology to truth, processes to purpose, and systems to shared ethical intent. Enter PhilOps™ — Philosophical Operations: a groundbreaking paradigm […]Read More

Modernizing the TOGAF ADM: Aligning SFIA with Purpose-Driven, Role-Aware Architecture

Introduction As enterprises undergo digital transformation at increasing speeds, Enterprise Architecture (EA) practices must evolve beyond structural rigor to embrace semantic depth, ethical alignment, and role-based maturity. By integrating the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) with SFIA (Skills Framework for the Information Age) and the emergent PhilOps paradigm (Philosophical Operations), a more reflexive, value-centered architecture […]Read More

Building Your Enterprise Architecture Career

Introduction Enterprise architects guide transformational change. Here is some guidance for software developers, analysts, solutions architects, IT managers, and others who are interested in becoming enterprise architects. It also applies to enterprise architects who wish to master their roles or become chief enterprise architects. Learn and Apply the Canon The international standard “ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2022 Software, […]Read More

Architecting in the Age of Outrage

This article integrates Karthik Ramma’s framework, The Age of Outrage, on the current context of turbulence into enterprise architecture, particularly through TOGAF’s Business-Transformation Readiness technique, which helps organizations understand and manage the risks associated with societal and organizational pressures in the modern age of outrage​​. This overview provides a foundation for understanding how outrage is […]Read More

Message of the Month – “Converting EA Opportunities into Actionable Engagement”

The Frustrating Trend: The Case of the Disappearing EA Opportunity Over the past three years, EA Principals has seen a recurring and frustrating pattern: large organizations reach out, clearly recognizing the need for Enterprise Architecture (EA) support. We respond with dedication-clarifying requirements, drafting Statements of Work, and investing significant effort to help these firms envision […]Read More

Challenges that EAs are facing Beyond Certification

One of the key challenges in the actual implementation of EA is the multiplicity of methods used in the Enterprise. After all, enterprises rarely rely on a single methodology for transformation efforts, architecture development, or IT service management. TOGAF alludes to this in laying out how to establish an EA practice, but it doesn’t provide […]Read More