Welcome to The Enterprise Architecture Institute, Inc. (The Institute).  We are the premier management consulting organization in the business of providing Consulting and Training Services in an Information Technology Methodology known as Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP).  The Institute President and originator of the methodology, Dr. Steven H. Spewak is the world-renowned expert in this field.  He is mentioned by name in Federal documents and has been teaching and facilitating EAP projects for about 18 years.  We provide these services directly through the Institute and as Alliance Partners with various companies and organizations.

An Overview...

Ask any business person what they want from their IT function and their answer is...

• Timely access to data in a useful format whenever and wherever needed
• Flexible adaptable systems that respond rapidly changing business conditions
• Accurate and consistent data throughout every department
• Seamless integration and data sharing across the enterprise
• Dependable security and reliability
• Reasonable and affordable cost.

So why is it that IT has not been able to deliver such intuitive solutions?  The answer is that approaches typically used for planning implementing systems and technology CANNOT achieve the mission stated above, no matter how much funding and technology is consumed.

Enterprise Architecture Planning effectively uncovers the root of the problem--ineffective communication--and replaces the conventional reactive, narrow-minded -focused systems development life cycle with a new proactive enterprise-wide knowledge management approach.  The magnitude of the benefits and improvements to the business from managing knowledge will be like the introduction of the assembly line to manufacturing a century ago.  However, there is no pleasant way to change the anti-quality bureaucracies and policies stemming from generations of computing and communication technologies, buzzwords and fads, centralization and decentralization, methodologies and toolset products, facilities management and outsourcing, data warehouses and software packages, re-organizations and re-engineering, to name a few.  The winners in the next millennium will be the businesses (and governments) that can adapt and the up-starts unbridled by conventional habits and fears.

Unfortunately, most IT organizations remain plagued by sharply rising budgets and a plethora of stovepipe systems and databases containing redundant, incompatible data.  Despite increasing expenditures for technology, satisfaction and services levels remain low.  One might say, to use an analogy, that IT isn't "healthy."  For most individuals, an enormous commitment and change of life-style would be necessary to get into the pink of good health, whether losing weight, quitting a bad habit or competing in athletic events.  The same goes for IT.  Remember the adage "if we keep doing what we've been doing, we're going to get what we've already got."  The blueprints and migration plan from Enterprise Architecture Planning is the get-well prescription for IT.