Course Description:
This course examines enterprise architecture (EA) as a strategic capability organizational leaders use for
enterprise planning, decision-making, and key process execution. Students explore leadership competencies
and management strategies needed to advance EA adoption, use, and institutionalization. Students also
explore the integration of EA with strategic planning, governance, portfolio management, capital planning
and investment control, and information assurance. Students examine EA descriptive frameworks and
associated models that guide EA development activities and review EA evaluative frameworks used to assess
organizational EA management capacities and performance outcomes enabled by the EA. Students
further examine challenges to organizational EA adoption, implementation, use, and institutionalization and consider strategies to address them.

Recommended Attendance:
The course is for CIOs and other leaders charged with formulating and guiding the strategic direction of the enterprise.  The course has a managerial rather than a technical focus, and is particularly appropriate for middle to senior leaders responsible to the executive management team. 

Prerequisites
None

Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to describe the nexus between enterprise architecture (EA) and successful enterprise
planning and operations, EA’s role in facilitating other critical agency activities, e.g., capital planning and
investment control (CPIC) and information assurance (IA), the application of EA models, and strategies
to address the challenges of EA adoption, use, and institutionalization.