"One way is to use a simple commonsense approach called [base "]XEA - eXtreme Enterprise Architecture[per thou]. XEA is a lightweight 7 step methodology for creating an adaptive technology portfolio. A technology portfolio provides the foundation upon which rests your traditional, much more complex, Zachman Framework-like enterprise architecture."

Will have to check out Jeff's http://ITScout.com site and his taxonomy roadmaps.
10:34:54 PM    

"Roger Fournier of InformationWeek has spent a good deal of time culling the best practices he's seen in enterprise architecture. You and I are the beneficiaries of ten of the best pointers on how to develop a successful enterprise architecture"

10:23:28 PM    

"This feedback loop enables knowledge workers to gauge the effectiveness of their decisions and continually improve their business. HP calls it "the missing link" that can help companies integrate data warehouses with the rest of their enterprise architecture, especially enterprise applications. It's essential to becoming an information agile company. From a practical viewpoint, they facilitate decision-making required to streamline internal or back-office operations as well as front-office applications."

This has got to be even more important for companies where the main source of income is leveraging employee knowledge to solve customer problems. There's a lot to think about here regarding knowledge management in this type of data warehouse-enabled feedback loop.
9:59:58 PM