This book is for anyone involved in innovating inside of a company or starting a new one. Blue Ocean Strategy describes how to build a business strategy that operates outside of the traditional norms. The book describes a Red versus Blue Ocean and provides tools and techniques to create blue oceans.

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.

This book is about whole systems design -- with this book being the field guide for the book, The Fifth Discipline. If you are an IT architect, you have no doubt heard of whole systems design but have likely not heard many that can describe the concept fully. This companion book provides tools, templates, and guidance to effectively implement the technique in your architectural practice.

This book is for IT architects operating at the enterprise level. This book introduces the GERAM (Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology) that is detailed in ISO/IS 15704 Annex A.

This book is for people who model and operate a company’s workforce or manage people. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to run a modern company or wants to gain business advantage through business structure.

This book is for architects and IT operations managers. The book covers some common measures for IT that can be agreed to by customers and service providers to describe the business value and continued success for the delivery of capability.

This book is for anyone who is (or is considering) starting a business. This is not a light read nor is it meant to be read cover-to-cover. We would urge you (and the authors suggest) using this like a reference book or encyclopedia.