Enterprise Architects, Inc. has developed proven methods designed to plan and implement architectures through people, culture, and change. Our approach solves organizational governance issues, improves organizational learning, installs skill development and training, instills teamwork and collaboration, and assesses and tracks candidates for the critical job of implementing architectures. Enterprise Architects, Inc. has a proven, published approach. Using Enterprise Architecture Planning - Developing a Blueprint for Data, Applications, and Technology by Dr. Steven S. Spewak, combined with practical CIO executive technology management expertise, EAI ensures a clients information, applications, and technology architectures are those blueprints needed to build sound implementable systems that solve real business problems. Planning Initiation Consulting - Diligent preparation is required before an Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) project gets underway. The purpose of the Planning Initiation phase is to organize and plan an EAP project, and to put all of the ingredients for success into place. A team of the most experienced EAI consultants will complete the following initiation activities: Determine a good scope for the EAP project (organizationally and functionally), create a clear vision of the future that serves as the general target, specify the qualifications for each of the roles on the project team, identify and evaluate the qualifications of candidate participants, adapt the EAP methodology for each client's situation, develop a list of deliverables, with descriptions of the contents of major deliverables, list the acceptance criteria, critical success factors, and the measures for success, and estimate the effort and duration of each step and prepare a work plan for the project. Strategic Business Assessment, Visioning, and Planning - For organizations that lack a well defined and accepted strategic business plan, a Strategic Assessment sets the stage for effective planning by providing a vision ...