A roadmap for enterprise integration

Smith, Dennis B.; O’Brien, Liam; Barbacci, Mario R.; Coallier, François

doi:10.1109/step.2002.1267618

“…The resulting research articles pose fundamental questions about the appropriateness of pedagogical approaches designed to give students the skills and competencies required in present IT practices. A number of articles have argued that the move from stand-alone applications to complex enterprise-wide systems requires a new set of skills from would-be IT professionals (Dhar & Sundararajan, 2007;Hawking et al, 2004;Lee et al, 2003;Smith et al, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

Educating reflective Enterprise Systems practitioners: a design research study of the iterative building of a teaching framework

Hustad

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,

Olsen

²

2013

Information Systems Journal

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This research paper reports on the iterative design of a teaching framework developed for teaching Enterprise Systems (ES) classes for Information Systems (IS) graduates. These systems embed technical complexity and create organizational challenges when implemented in organizations. Therefore, teaching good ES classes is pedagogically challenging for faculty, and ES curricula are difficult for students. We have gradually designed and rebuilt curricula and teaching frameworks over 8 years. This has also resulted in a set of eight design principles. We report from our design and evaluation process and present our final artefact, the teaching framework. The aim is to educate reflective practitioners with multiple ES skills, enabling them to tackle the complexities of ES implementation contexts. The framework has implications for IS educational research and practice and has some generic values that are transferable to other academic institutions and adaptable to other IS learning environments. Further, the study contributes to IS design research by extending its application area. The ES teaching framework is a specific contribution to IS teaching frameworks as a class of problems.

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“…After more than thirty years of work on the topic, the vision of the right information for the right people at the right time and in the right format has still not been realised, and it appears that the reason is partly the lack of an underlying commonly accepted theory, and partly the lack of mature enough tools. The coherency of information flow has always been the original aim of the discipline of Enterprise Integration (EI), "The goal of enterprise integration is to provide timely and accurate exchange of consistent information between business functions to support strategic and tactical business goals in a manner that appears to be seamless" [10], and since the 1980s [12] integration of the information flow has been a major strategic objective -whether integration by design or dynamic integration (interoperation).…”

Section: Next Generation Ea -Architecture As a Pervasive Management Dmentioning

confidence: 99%

Architecting the Firm – Coherency and Consistency in Managing the Enterprise

Turner

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Gøtze

²

,

Bernus

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2010

Enterprise Architecture, Integration and Interoperability

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Traditional Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice lacks a clear and effective governance and management layer that is easily understandable and intuitive to senior decision makers with the modern organisation. This paper uses three case studies to demonstrate the relative maturity of different EA practice groups within these organisations to demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of a traditional ICT management approach versus those that include EA practice in all levels and domains of management. Concepts of Coherency Management and Pervasiveness will be used to explain the idea of a next Generation of EA practice that permeates all layers of the organisation and no longer remains the domain of technologists but instead influences and informs decision-making at all levels (operational, tactical, managerial / strategic) of the organisation. Conditions of such future EA practices are also discussed.

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“…After more than thirty years of work on the topic, the vision of the right information for the right people at the right time and in the right format has still not been realised, and it appears that the reason is partly the lack of an underlying commonly accepted theory, and partly the lack of mature enough tools. The coherency of information flow has always been the original aim of the discipline of Enterprise Integration (EI), "The goal of enterprise integration is to provide timely and accurate exchange of consistent information between business functions to support strategic and tactical business goals in a manner that appears to be seamless" [10], and since the 1980s [12] integration of the information flow has been a major strategic objective -whether integration by design or dynamic integration (interoperation).…”

Section: Next Generation Ea -Architecture As a Pervasive Management Dmentioning

confidence: 99%