Du Preez, JacoVan der Merwe, AltaMatthee, Machdel C.2018-10-122018Du Preez, J., Van der Merwe, A. & Matthee, M. 2018, 'Understanding enterprise architects : different enterprise architect behavioral styles', Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 327, pp. 96-108.1865-1348 (online)10.1007/978-3-319-99040-8_8http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66854Proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 8.9 Working Conference, CONFENIS 2018, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznan, Poland, September 18–19, 2018.Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an emerging field that focuses on the establishment of a conceptual blueprint that describes the structure and operation of an organization. The purpose is to enable the organization to strategically make decisions on the future state of the organization. Enterprise architects play a key role in the establishment of the EA, even though there are different views of what EA is and how the organization can establish the EA using EA frameworks. In this paper we focused on the different behavioral styles used by enterprise architects in the organization, which enable us to understand the role that EA plays in the organization and shed light on why EA is often executed differently within organizations. Nine behavioral styles are identified by focusing on the roles and competencies of enterprise architects.en© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. The original publication is available at : http://www.springer.com/series/7911.Enterprise architecture styleEnterprise architect profileEnterprise architectInformation systems (IS)Enterprise architecture (EA)Information usePostprint Article