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Business Overhead

Enterprise Architecture: It is not an overhead

July 11, 2013 by Kim Parker

Many members of a business community with access to an Enterprise Architecture see it as an overhead that ‘gets in the way’ of them ‘doing their job. As an overhead it is seen as something apart from their ‘Business As … Continue reading →

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