Enterprise architects are familiar with patterns. Those in software design have used patterns for decades, and over the last 15 years, they have been established as one of the most important techniques in enterprise architecture (EA). Enterprise patterns are a representation of the EA components that determine how an enterprise forms and operates. An enterprise pattern explains how the architecture either constrains or enables business capabilities and strategies. Every enterprise is unique. Similarly, each business model is unique and we can express a business model as a pattern or, more specifically, a “business pattern,” which describes the essential and unique characteristics of a business model. This Executive Report describes how enterprise architects can use business patterns to inform the work of enterprise architecture.