- Content: High-level descriptions of separate IT initiatives understandable to business leaders
- Focus: Usually focus on the mid-term future up to 1-2 years ahead
- Format: Expressed as a mix of textual descriptions and simple diagrams
- Meaning: Decisions on how approximately specific IT initiatives should be implemented
- Usage: Developed collaboratively by architects and business leaders and then used to evaluate, approve and fund specific IT initiatives (see Enterprise Architecture Practice on a Page)
- Lifecycle: Produced at the early stages of IT initiatives to support decision-making and then archived
- Role: Benefit, time and price tags for proposed IT initiatives
- Purpose: Help estimate the overall business impact and value of proposed IT initiatives
- Benefits: Improved efficiency and ROI of IT investments
Source: Enterprise Architecture on a Page v1.4 (http://eaonapage.com), Svyatoslav Kotusev (http://kotusev.com)