Doing Enterprise-Architecture: A Maturity-Model Guide to Architecture Development

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Tom Graves Slade Beard

Doing Enterprise-Architecture

A Maturity-Model Guide to Architecture Development

Tom Graves, Slade Beard

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English

APress
08 October 2025

Business & management; Business mathematics & systems; Network hardware; Computer networking & communications; Systems analysis & design

Enterprise architecture is a set of business practices that connect an organization’s strategy with its management of change. It is concerned with the structure and story of the enterprise, and ensuring that everything across the whole enterprise will work together in the most effective way.

Yet when doing enterprise architecture, what should we do, in what sequence, and for what business purpose? What skills and leadership do we need? What results should we expect? And how can we prove the business value of what we do? This book sets out to answer those questions and show how, with the right architecture support, every change in the organization can be a change for the better.

The book explains that to achieve this, we will need a literal ‘architecture of the enterprise’ that can start anywhere and can address every aspect of the enterprise, including people, machines, IT and more. We will need architecture development methods that can work consistently and in the same way everywhere, for every type of content or context, at every scope and scale, with every timescale, and throughout every stage of the change process. We will need those methods to support not just planned change, but provide continuity over longer periods, These methods must also respond fast to unexpected opportunities, risks and large-scale challenges arising within the organization and its market, and from the real-world beyond the enterprise itself.

The book describes how to satisfy all of those needs, using a formal dependency-driven maturity-model to guide systematic step-by-step development of the organization’s capabilities for enterprise architecture. The sequence of steps ensures that, at each stage of development, the architecture can be relied upon to achieve desired, effective business outcomes.

You Will :

Learn how to extend your architecture beyond IT to the whole enterprise. Learn how to use a service-based approach to enhance consistency across the whole architecture. Learn how to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, responsiveness and resilience throughout the enterprise.

This book is for : Enterprise Architects.

By: Tom Graves, Slade Beard
Imprint: APress
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9798868817564
Pages: 637
Publication Date: 08 October 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1: The quest for effectiveness.- Chapter 2: Foundations: Making sense of change.- Chapter 3: Foundations: The art and science of change.- Chapter 4: Foundations: The patterns of change.- Chapter 5: Foundations: The layers of change.- Chapter 6: Foundations: The cycles of change.- Chapter 7: Foundations: The practice of change.- Chapter 8: Step 1: Identify the enterprise.- Chapter 9: Step 2: Get ready for action.- Chapter 10: Step 3: Set out the stall.- Chapter 11: Step 4: Interact with the market.- Chapter 12: Step 5: Interact with the enterprise.- Chapter 13: Engaging others in the architecture.- Chapter 14: Wrapping up.- Appendix A: Glossary.- Appendix B: Sources and Resources.

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than four decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including small-business, banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in whole-enterprise architectures for non-profit, social, government and commercial enterprises. Slade Beard is an ICT Architect and Program Manager with extensive experience in the design and implementation of ICT infrastructure environments, including integration with large construction projects. He has knowledge and experience in major IT infrastructure rollouts in the Defence,National Security, Emergency Services, Health and Secure Systems Environments. He has proven experience in supporting the effective design, implementation and commissioning of complex ICT systems in high-risk environments where considerations such as avoiding disruption of existing operations is crucial to project success. In addition, as a result of his extensive construction design and build experience, he can frame and articulate the integration of complex ICT systems within the services elements of facility build considerations and act as an effective advocate for ICT requirements within construction teams.