IT: A Roadblock for Enterprise Architecture?

Adrian Grigoriu makes a good point in his latest post on ITtoolbox. Most Enterprise Architecture frameworks currently out there are strictly IT-focused; thus it is ignoring business views that are valuable. Business will have to work on this approach, to ensure it selects the right enterprise architects that have IT solution experience, rather than only IT skills.

Adrian also mentions how architects should first create the framework for business architecture, and then base the IT architecture on that. It’s important for the architect to be knowledgeable on all aspects of the business other than EA like BPM, business process design, business strategy, and business models just to name a few. Enterprise Architecture is set in order to the implementation of business concepts, and so it must not clash with the business approach.