SBSA Partners

SBSA Partners is the publisher of The Strategic Enterprise Architect's Dilemma: Balancing Fitness for Today’s Purpose with Fitness for Tomorrow’s Disruptive Context, authored by Alex Conn and Leo Laverdure. This book captures and extends many insights the authors gained in nearly three decades of developing, practicing, and teaching Solution and Enterprise Architecture at high-tech firms worldwide. It presents a theoretical basis and a practical methodology for architecting flexible enterprise capabilities in a disruptive context. Sudden, disruptive changes in the context require rapid adaptation. Enterprises need to embrace just-in-case thinking and build in flexibility to adapt capabilities for plausible scenarios. They must act rapidly while continuously re-assessing the uncertainty inherent in the context. Fitness is the key to surviving and thriving in disruptive times, and enterprise architecture must focus on adaptability. This requires a methodology that fully engages key stakeholders and highlights fitness for context. It also requires a set of architectural views that outline what the enterprise needs to consider to be viable in today’s and tomorrow’s contexts. This book should be especially interesting to Enterprise Architects with a strategic focus, as well as Strategists and others contributing to enterprise strategy in business, government, and non-profit organizations. We provide webinars and a blog on topics related to the book.