The Juxtaposition of Enterprise Architecting with a Business Process Management

Nowadays, with relatively mature but steadily increasing scope of the Enterprise Architecture (EA), many organizations struggle to deliver value when using EA in conjunction with Business Process Management (BPM) practices. The challenge is in particular linked to expectation organizations have about which approach is suitable for what when it comes to building the model how the organizations should perform their work. The digital industry has passed over past two decades through rapid evolution triggered both by availability of new technologies and business models. This trend in turn means that organizations have to remain flexible when executing their business by maintaining the business and infrastructure alignment in constantly changing ecosystem. It has been widely recognized that the EA as well as BPM provide an information asset used by organization to describe how business, infrastructure and human elements within the organization are related to each other in way organization do their work. In this paper, I discuss the role and associated value that an EA in comparison with BPM have when organizations model the way they should perform their