EA = a process/approach to embedding business development and change in an institutions. It provides guidance about how to implement strategy. It offers a way of moving a team's capabilities on, managing and controlling the capabilities.
The road to value defines the pathway to an EA practitioner:
Explorer -> Adapter -> Implementer -> Achieve -> Practitioner
Book recommendation: "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy", Ross, Weill, Robertson
Further funding to be made available via the JISC FSD Programme will focus on EA approach
Biils methodology = cost benefits analysis
TOGAF = The Open Group Architecture Framework
Governance (buy-in from SMT) is essential for successful EA adoption
Architecture Modelling Tool - (based on Archimate) - developed by JISC CETIS. An open source tool which aims to fill the gap between simple diagramming and more complex vendor tools.
http://www.archimate.org/
Example of modelling -
1) Staffordshire Uni: developing TOGAF and model. jiscenable.blogspot.com and projects.staffs.ac.uk/enable
2) Roehampton Uni: sets of work packages rather than dependency flow chart
3) Liverpool John Moores Uni: uses EA as a strategy to manage projects in general
