Being anorganization that support a defined business scope and mission, an enterprise includes interdependent resources which must coordinate their functions and share information for support of a common mission.

Enterprise is defined as a business organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. The perspective of enterprise understanding is from

Changes in the business scenario contribute towards an increasingly dynamic environment in which enterprises want to thrive. To improve their chances of survival, define the insight needed by management.

There is one common reason for initiating an enterprise architecture program. The common objective is

Identify the important element stakeholders involved in the transformation of (parts of) the enterprise need insight in and control of.

When dealing with stakeholders in addition to the variety of concerns, one typically has to deal with a large number of stakeholders as well. This is commonly referred to by the notion of social complexity. The following list are the determinant of social complexity except:

A stakeholder is an individual, team, or organization with interest in, or concerns relative to, an enterprise. In making decisions about an enterprise’s future directions, stakeholders want to obtain insights to understand the risks involved in current and future initiatives.

Pereira and Sousa define architecture as a framework or “blueprint” for how the organization achieves the current and future business objectives. There are only two architectures defined in the blueprint; the business architecture and the application architecture.

THREE (3) reasons enterprises undertake the process of enterprise architecture are reducing technology diversity, improving time to market the new products, and simplifying a complex application landscape.

Strategic management is a combination of three sequential main processes:

Outside-in—A strategy can be influenced by developments in the environment of an organization [68]. These developments may be due to political, environmental, socio-cultural, technical, economic, as well as legal factors (also refer to the PESTEL framework).

Outside- in—A strategy can also be influenced by changes in the availability (and becoming aware) of an organization’s resources and competencies [68], leading to a resource-based view of a strategy.

Define the relationship between strategy and programmatic approach to enterprise challenges.

Architecture is a model of complex system. It represents:

“Resources allocation” takes care of structuring an organization’s structure, processes, and relationships to support successful performance.

For enterprise to distinguishing themselves from their rivals, Treacy and Wiersema argue that enterprises should try and focus on one of the three disciplines of added value. Select the discipline with correct description.

'References to structure and relationships' and 'Reference to technology' are the two common elements in the definitions of the Enterprise Architecture.

The following is the 3 important perspectives on the role of an enterprise architecture except:

Translating a strategy formulation into strategy execution is concerned with three major areas: organizing the organization, resources allocation, and change management. Change management addresses the individual and organizational issues.