Numerous companies are considering as a strategic corporate initiative the adoption of an enterprise business architecture (EBA) built using James Martin's value streams. While researching and analyzing the EBA, some are rediscovering Michael Porter's value chain analysis, which is used to achieve a competitive advantage. Many find this reawakening quite logical, and as this article will explain, a natural extension of the EBA's value streams may indeed lead to competitive advantage. The EBA is customer-centric and represents the integration of all enterprise value streams, thus enabling one to design and build Porter's competitive advantage through value chain analysis from the architectural components defined in the EBA. As business process expert Paul Harmon writes:
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