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This strategy briefing describes critical success factors for developing, implementing, and managing (engineering) an enterprise architecture for strategic information management, operational information quality, and effective software component development and management.

Every enterprise has an architecture. Most organizations simply let their architecture grow and evolve uncontrolled. It is always undocumented and is most often characterized by high maintenance costs, long development cycles, poor quality software, non-interoperable applications, lack of data sharing, limited strategic information, and difficult change management.

Those organizations that engineer their enterprise architecture are able to avoid and/or overcome the problems experienced by organizations that are controlled by their out-of-control architectures. Enterprise Architecture Engineering means adopting rigorous and disciplined processes for effectively defining, documenting, and managing their enterprise architecture. Effectively accomplishing enterprise architecture engineering requires that the critical success factors described in this paper are addressed.

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