It has been discovered that multiple business units across an enterprise are using duplicate IT applications and services to fulfill their individual needs. Which of the following would be MOST…

Enterprise Architecture provides a holistic framework to understand and design the current and future state of an organization's business, information, application, and technology landscapes. By leveraging EA, an enterprise can identify redundancies, standardize solutions, promote shared services, and guide investments towards optimized, consolidated IT assets, thus eliminating duplication.

An enterprise risk framework focuses on identifying and mitigating risks, not on optimizing and consolidating redundant IT applications and services.

IT service management focuses on the delivery, support, and continuous improvement of IT services but does not inherently address the strategic issue of application duplication across the enterprise.

An IT project roadmap outlines planned projects over time but typically doesn't provide the strategic oversight to identify and resolve existing architectural redundancies across the organization.