The Economic Benefits of Enterprise Architecture 

by Jaap Schekkerman

Who is this book for?

Architects.

The practice of enterprise architecture in business and its support by business leaders cycles from being seen as business critical to being eliminated. The expectation for what enterprise architects do as part of their duties changes at times as well. However, the skills of an enterprise architect remain pretty constant. This book does a good job of describing them.

Chapter 1 - Enterprise Architecture in Context
Chapter 2 - What is Enterprise Architecture About?
Chapter 3 - Critical Success Factors for Enterprise Architectures
Chapter 4 - Enterprise Architecture - the panacea?
Chapter 5 - Enterprise Architecture Program and Validation
Chapter 6 - Extended Enterprise Environment
Chapter 7 - The Necessity to Align Business and IT
Chapter 8 - How to Measure the Economic Benefits of Enterprise Architecture
Chapter 9 - Enterprise Stakeholders & Viewpoints
Chapter 10 - The Enterprise Architecture Measurement Program & Framework
Chapter 11 - Cost & Benefit Analysis
Chapter 12 -Return of Investment (ROI)
Chapter 13 - Net Present Value
Chapter 14 - Activity Based Costing / Management
Chapter 15 - Benchmarking
Chapter 16 - Business Case
Chapter 17 - Capital Asset Plan and Business Case
Chapter 18 - Information Technology Investment Management (ITIM)
Chapter 19 - IT Innovations Benefits Measurement Framework
Chapter 20 - The Applied Information Economics (AIE) Method
Chapter 21 - The Information Productivity (IP) Index
Chapter 22 - The Six Sigma Approach
Chapter 23 - LMI's Approach on Quantifying the Economic Benefits of EA
Chapter 24 - The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM)
Chapter 25 - Cost Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM)
Chapter 26 - The Economic Business View in (F)EA
Chapter 27 - EA Assessment Framework v1.5
Chapter 28 - Enterprise Value Management
Chapter 29 - Cost Accounting Concepts & Standards for the US Government 
Chapter 30 - US Government Performance & Results Act, 1993
Chapter 31 - Making Progress on Enterprise Architecture Efforts
Chapter 32 - Enterprise Architecture in US Government Can Be Improved
Chapter 33 - IFEAD's EA Survey; How are Organizations Progressing