We believe that the business world is going through a tremendous transformation. In the last millennium, organizations were largely identified with their buildings, their products and services, and internally by their organizational structure, business processes and cultures. Furthermore, these aspects were all managed through manual processes or through a range of disconnected systems. At the end of the millennium, computer technology and especially the internet brought tremendous change. The change and the initial realization of its impact on business released a time of rash speculation about how to manage business in this environment. This brought an economic euphoria which soon crashed and brought several years of pragmatism and recovery. Through all of this, the forces of change continued with little clear direction about how they should be managed.

We believe that we are now in a time when a new perspective of business management is required which is solidly based on systems theory and yet is driven by the return on investment it can provide. We believe that tremendous agility and business advantage can be gained by modeling organizations internally and externally as components of value in a large distributed network of other components. Value chain and supply chain integration are initial concepts which offer a limited perspective of this view. We believe that understanding and applying agilie enterprise architecture principles will bring the primary competitive advantage for medium to large corporations in the third millennium. We are committed to providing the training and tools to make it easier for organizational leaders to accomplish this.