Yeah, James, I too have serious reservations about TOGAF – they’re doing useful work in the IT-space, but not really much beyond that, even though at every conference people plead with them to address the framework’s huge limitations, especially in the business-architecture area.

What I’ve been trying to do with the book – and for a fair few years now, in any case – is to stop thinking of IT as a special case (which it isn’t, exactly as you say in your own blog) and instead rethink enterprise-architecture from the ground up. What _is_ the enterprise? What is its purpose? Its people? Its knowledge? Its processes, activities, assets in the broadest sense?

To my mind, there’s little or no real point in diving down into TOGAF-like detail until we _have_ sorted things out right up at that topmost level – or at least gotten some kind of reasonable handle on it.

Opinions, p’raps?