Coherency Management: Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance

The book introduces the idea of Coherency Management, and asserts that this is the primary outcome goal of an enterprise's architecture. With submissions from over 30 authors and co-authors, the book reinforces the idea that EA is being practiced in an ever-increasing variety of circumstances - from the tactical to the strategic, from the technical to the political, and with governance that ranges from sell to tell. The characteristics, usages, value statements, frameworks, rules, tools and countless other attributes of EA seem to be anything but orderly, definable, classifiable, and understandable as might be hoped given heritage of EA and the famous framework and seminal article on the subject by John Zachman over two decades ago. Notably, EA is viewed as an Enterprise Design and Management approach, adopted to build better enterprises, rather than a IT Design and Management approach limited to build better systems.

Editors of the book are Gary Doucet, John Gøtze, Pallab Saha, and Scott Bernard, four thought-leaders in the enterprise archtecture disciline. Besides the editors themselves, chapter contributors include:

* Chris Aitken, Queensland Health, Australia * Fred Collins, IBM Business Consulting Services, United States of America * George Paras, EA Directions, United States of America * Jan Saat, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland * Jean-Pierre Auffret, George Mason University, United States of America * John Grasso, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America * John Mo, RMIT University, Australia * Jorge Marx Gómez, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany * Larry DeBoever, EA Directions, United States of America * Laszlo Nemes, Nemes Consulting, Australia * Leonidas Anthopoulos, Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece * Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Neil Kemp, Swift Fox Strategies, Canada * Ovidiu Noran, Griffith University, Australia * Peter Bernus, Griffith University, Australia * Peter De Meo, IBM Business Consulting Services, United States of America * Peter Hungerford, Syngenta Corporation, Switzerland * Rick Bryson and Bruce Stacey, Government of Canada, Canada * Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland * Stephan Aier, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland * Stephan Kurpjuweit, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland * Tanaia Parker, T.White Parker Consulting, United States of America * Thom Kearney, Rowanwood Consulting, Canada * Thomas Biskup, QuinScape GmbH, Germany * Timothy Westbrock, EA Directions, United States of America

Forewords by John Zachman, Zachman International, and by John Herhalt, KPMG.