A few months ago, Ms. Johnson attended a symposium for CEOs and other senior executives and learned about enterprise architecture and how it can enable business-IT alignment and agility. Upon her return, she floated the idea with the board of directors, her direct reports and vetted the idea with IT Operations head Mr. Sculley. With strong support from the board and Mr. Sculley, Ms. Johnson created an enterprise architect position reporting directly to her with dotted line reporting to all area heads.

You have been handpicked to serve as the new Chief Enterprise ArchitectforLargo Corporation.Your assignment is to craft anenterprise architecture vision and explain how the visionenables business goals. Among other things, you need to justify the implementation of an enterprise architecture at Largo Corporation.

According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, "an enterprise architecture (EA) is an integral part of the IT investment management process. An EA provides a clear and comprehensive picture of the structure of an entity. This picture consists of snapshots of its current and proposed technical environments, and a roadmap for transitioning from the current to the target environment. When properly managed, an EA can help optimize the relationships among an organization's business operations and the IT infrastructure and applications supporting them."

You will learn about the EA concept, various EA frameworks and apply one to the Largo Corporation.You will learn how to migrate the corporation to a well-defined enterprise architecture vision.As part of the migration effort you will need to identify the governance structure for the architecture.

As an enterprise architect, your ability to understand and apply enterprise architecture principles and methodology enables the organization to achieve a business-IT aligned, agile and scalable IT asset. This in turn enables the organization to leverage IT as a competitive strategy to respond quickly to changing market conditions in a global economy.Additionally, you must be able to communicate effectively (oral and written) to executive level management in a non-jargon, executive level manner. This learning demonstration is designed to strengthen these essential knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by enterprise architects.

Activity:Prepare an Enterprise Architecture Concept report for executives. Be sure to: a) provide a compelling rationale for initiating Enterprise Architecture at Largo, and b) compile a glossary of terms specified above. For maximum credit, the terms in the Glossary must be used in the report.