Enterprise Architecture Create Business Value

Since Japan is currently facing to some environment change like global competition, deregulations, highly developed information technology (IT) and so on, Japanese companies are need to get their productivities more up ever than before, and have flexible information systems to be survived by themselves. Historically, the biggest challenge facing to companies is ldquoadaptationrdquo to any environment. The flexibility of the information systems to create business values has been discussed for a long time as one of critical problems among ICT communities. One of potential solutions is increasing the ability of organizations to adapt to business change by using Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a foundation of ICT. This paper deals with the primary influence of EA on the creation of business value.