<p>If you are a CIO, CTO, or Architecture Manager, you are already paying an “architecture tax” you never approved.</p><p>It shows up as overlapping platforms, programs that cannot finish, and “strategic” projects that quietly die after burning millions. The surprising culprit: ten everyday EA/BA words that your organization thinks it understands - but does not.</p><p>When these words are fuzzy, your architecture is fuzzy. And fuzzy architecture is expensive.</p>