Via Michael Platt, I came across this Gartner gem:
Enterprise architects must act as catalysts that speed the formation of unified business technology strategies and their execution. The enterprise architecture process must shift gears from limiting complexity by limiting choices to accelerating innovation and execution by coordinating complexity through unified business and IT strategy, decentralized execution and loose coupling among all related stakeholder disciplines.
Michael Platt is not Pat Helland, but I think he would be more than delighted with your comment … ;-)