Enterprise Architecture
The Enterprise Architecture (EA) Initiative strives to design, extend, and invent practices, tools, and theories, in partnership with industry, to produce effective outcomes at the intersection of theory and organizational practice.
We intend to help organizations understand, utilize, and extend enterprise architecture as a strategic resource:
- Achieve efficiencies in operations across company and network activities
- Leverage aligned enterprise technology to drive innovations in products, services and business models
- Compete in a networked, global world
- Provide advice and support in Undergraduate Education, Graduate Education, Professional Continuing Education, and Research
In EA we provide a focused hub of expertise and resources to serve client organizations. We are creating new knowledge, applied research outcomes and new theoretical perspectives as well as applying established theories in collaboration with industry partners through five key ways:
- Conducting projects with industry collaborators, government sponsors and others to confront demanding problems and provide thought leadership around EA related issues
- Developing cross-organizational and cross-industry models to create benchmarks and scorecards that client companies can use to assess themselves
- Creating a cadre of new enterprise architecture professionals who are trained in and experienced with the demands of this evolving profession
- Providing a neutral meeting place where client organizations can interact with faculty and other advisory group members and to explore possible solutions to common problems
- Publish leading edge collaborative research in a variety of EA related areas
