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This chapter addresses the central question for an Enterprise Architecture initiative: What do we want to achieve with the introduction of Enterprise Architecture? Enterprise Architecture Management is introduced as a method for providing value to an organisation instead of simply applying a method, tool or framework.

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    The diagram has been created based on a similar discussion in [4, pp. 35] and [7, pp. 5].

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    A systematic literature review on definitions for EAM can be found in [9]. Further definitions are given for example in [10, p. 24] and [2, p. 3].

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Jung, J., Fraunholz, B. (2021). Introduction. In: Masterclass Enterprise Architecture Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78495-9_1

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