Enterprise-architecture (EA) provides one of the most powerful means to guide the best use and re-use of an organisation`s existing assets and processes, and also to guide investment in change. Unfortunately, existing EA frameworks can be unwieldy, overly complex, often time-consuming and expensive to implement, and appropriate only for the organisation`s IT-assets, without clear integration into the business as a whole. By contrast, the Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PEAF) aims to change all this, "cutting EA to the bone", yet delivering real business-value fast. This book provides a practical introduction to PEAF and its use in enterprise-architecture practice. Topics covered include: - how to use enterprise-architecture to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, agility and durability across the whole enterprise - how to create a culture of shared responsibility for appropriate architectural choices in all types of change-projects and change-programmes - how to model whatever is needed - yet only what is needed - and select appropriate toolsets to do so - how to ensure appropriate governance of architecture and change, to as to identify, manage and reduce `enterprise debt` - the risk of future-cost and potential enterprise damage accumulated via decisions past and present If you want to explore how to get your enterprise on track with EA, this is one book you`ll definitely need.