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Does your organization include business architects, either in the EA team or in the lines of business?

In his latest survey on the state of Enterprise Architecture, EA Practice Director Mike Rosen tackled the perpetual debate over how business architecture should be organized. Mike wrote, "On the one hand, if BA is managed as part of EA, then we can facilitate better alignment between the business and IT, a perpetual challenge and debate. With this organizational structure, however, sometimes the business architecture will have a more technological or application-centric perspective." In either case, though, "Business architecture represents a growth area for architecture and EA, and an excellent opportunity to bring some abstraction, conceptualization, analysis, and formalism skills to the business and provide value through architecture."

* Excerpted from "Enterprise Architecture 2010: Part III -- EA Programs" (Login Required) by Mike Rosen, Enterprise Architecture Executive Update, Vol. 13, No. 24

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