The Hitchhiker's Guide to Enterprise Architecture Roadmapping

by Sebastian Konkol, Wojciech Ozimek, Bartosz Kiepuszewski, Borys Stokalski

At a recent IT conference, one of the speakers -- an experienced industry analyst -- defined the term "enterprise architecture" as a concept, which makes business decision makers immediately lose interest in further conversations with CIOs. This remark is a good illustration of the communications deficiencies that are plaguing the territory of business-IT alignment. It is as if technology management is protected by some kind of Douglas Adams-type SEP field, a protective shield that can cover a "bizarre and unbelievable scene so that the unconscious minds of the observers instantly abdicate responsibility for its existence." ¹