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This book stems from a growing frustration with what I call “mainstream” enterprise architecture (EA).

Is mainstream EA perhaps losing momentum and influence?
Does EA have a problem of scope and perspective?
Or is there a lack of relevance to practical business problems?

So what’s the alternative? Can emerging approaches to EA help to re-establish practical business

relevance?

There are many ideas within Systems Thinking (ST) that could be relevant. So among other things, I shall

be looking at possible cross-fertilization between EA and ST.

What practical lessons can EA learn from ST, and what are the opportunities and challenges for collaboration between the two disciplines?
What practical benefits can a systems thinking perspective bring to enterprise architecture?
Which of the tools and techniques of systems practice can usefully be added to the enterprise architecture toolbox?
How can enterprise architects, systems thinkers and others work together in multi-disciplinary teams?

This book doesn’t claim to provide a full set of answers to these questions, but represents a preliminary exploration of what a solution might look like. My hope is to encourage other EA thinkers and practitioners to go beyond fancy diagrams and rhetoric and to work together to develop a properly grounded approach.

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