as it architectural layers, business support processes, and organizational structures become more sophisticated and prone to constant change, eam will only result in haphazard business and it alignment if the primary focus is on delivering sets of technically based models. this approach is only helpful insofar as it depicts the enterprise architecture as a snapshot in time, but it offers no reiterative process support to develop architecture solutions and test against different scenarios, benchmarks, and standards as dictated by the ever converging business and it strategy.