L-GENEAF, a Generic Business-Driven EA Framework

An increasing number of business organizations are supporting business-driven Enterprise Architecture (EA) efforts but most of these projects mix multiple EA frameworks leading to in-house developments. It seems that, based on Gartner survey, the upcoming EA frameworks will take advantage of the already existing different sets of reference frameworks and methodologies to develop pragmatic and generic business-driven ones. In this paper, we propose a roadmap that offers a mature business-driven EA framework by combining the structure of our previously developed Lausanne EA Framework (LEAF), with the business-oriented artifacts of an existing Systemic Enterprise Architecture Methodology called SEAM. This combination, relying on an articulated synergy of both the LEAF and SEAM, results in a novel EA framework, baptized L-GENEAF.