VisionWaves™: Delivering the strategic component to Enterprise Architecture(EA) in an Intelligent Performance Management Framework

VisionWaves is not an EA tool but supports the strategic links of EA by showing the relationship of the many EA framework constituents to their relative strategic importance. Gartner has published a lot of research on why EA should start from a strategic perspective by formulating and expanding the Common Requirements Vision (CRV). This CRV deliverable from the EA process describes the link between environmental trends, business strategy and the overarching requirements that the EA must meet to satisfy the business strategy.

Gartner recommends use of the Business Anchor Model to quickly communicate the highest level of business entity relationships. The focus of such an anchor model is to determine the strategic alignment with an enterprise’s generic competitive strategy, for internal and external activities, resulting in the highest-level representation of the business. Delta delivers exactly this; accordingly Delta is a valuable part of any EA initiative. It could be positioned as the essential, strategic dimension of EA.

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