Challenges Facing Enterprise Architects: A South African Perspective

Chuang, Cheng-Hui; Loggerenberg, Johan van

doi:10.1109/hicss.2010.449

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“…Chuang and Loggerenberg (2010) studied the challenges that enterprise architects faced particularly in the South African organizational context [31]. Aiming to examine the nontechnical aspects of the architecting process, they conducted eight interviews with enterprise architects working in the EA domain in different industries.…”

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The Role of Top Management Commitment in Enterprise Architecture Development in Governmental Organizations

Banaeianjahromi

2018

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Governmental organizations adopt Enterprise Architecture (EA) not only to enhance their performance and efficiency but also to move toward egovernment implementation. The article at hand investigates the EA development obstacles in governmental organizations. An interpretivist paradigm using the grounded theory methodology (GTM) was selected to carry out this study. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 9 governmental organizations in Iran. In total, 17 obstacles were identified. This study revealed the precedence in addressing EA development obstacles and top management commitment category was identified as a category that has the highest impact on the EA projects. It was realized that the commitment that top management level of the organizations show toward EA development projects, motivates employees to effectively engage with the projects. In addition, a committed top manager assigns adequate resources to the EA project in order to prepare the infrastructure of the company. In this study, government and politics category appeared to be a category of external obstacles that affects most of the other categories directly or indirectly. This study contributes to industry and academia by investigating the EA development obstacles.

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The Role of Top Management Commitment in Enterprise Architecture Development in Governmental Organizations

Banaeianjahromi

2018

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“… Resources — Resources in organisations include employees, skills, time, finances, technologies, rules and policies. The allocation of resources indicates the deployment of internal resources such as the financial, human, technological, and physical infrastructure of an organisation (Chuang & van Loggerenberg, ). The selection, development, implementation as well as the usage and maintenance of IS/IT is influenced by the availability of resources within the organisations.…”

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“…Enterprise architecture operates in an organisational context and this context is shaped by organisational culture (Chuang & van Loggerenberg, ). Organisational culture shapes the organisation's management, attitudes, and behaviours.…”

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Developing the enterprise architecture for the Namibian government

Shaanika

Iyamu

2018

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The Namibian government strive to use the enterprise architecture (EA), to address the incidents of disparities, such as obsolesce, incompatibility, duplications, lack of uniformity, and integration challenges that hampers processes and activities in providing socioeconomic services to the communities of the country. Through its domains, the aim of the EA is to facilitate services towards transformation, development, and growth of socioeconomic activities in the country. However, the deployment of the EA is a challenge because there are implications of practice, which are constraints to the aim of the concept. The objective of this study was therefore to develop a framework, which can be used to guide the deployment of the EA. Based on the framework, we examine the implications of practice, which is intended to improve service delivery through the deployment of the EA. The qualitative methods were used in the study. The semi‐structure technique was applied to collect qualitative data. Based on the findings from the data analysis, a framework was developed, which depicts how the EA is influenced by interactions and relationships that happens between the involved actors, and draws on the implications for services delivery. This study is important to both academic and government, as it reveals on how certain factors manifests themselves, to enable, and at the same time, constrain processes and activities of information systems and technologies.

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“…For example, case study-based investigations of EArelated problems and blockers have been carried out in the United States [13], continental Europe [12], Norway [38], Finland [39] and Vietnam [16]. Extensive interview-based studies of EA-related obstacles have been conducted by European researchers [40] and less extensive ones by their South African colleagues [41]. Hauder et al [42] organized a global survey of EA practitioners to examine the challenges related to EA practices.…”

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“…Hauder et al [42] organized a global survey of EA practitioners to examine the challenges related to EA practices. These studies identified various blockers of EA initiatives ranging from the scarcity of experienced architects [42,43] and the absence of sufficient resources to develop complete EA documentation [12,39] to inadequate communication [43] and organizational politics [16,41]. Therefore, blockers of EA practices in organizations may be very diverse.…”

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Artifacts, Activities, Benefits and Blockers: Exploring Enterprise Architecture Practice in Depth

Kurnia

Kotusev

Taylor³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Enterprise architecture (EA) is a collection of artifacts describing an organization from an integrated business and IT perspective and intended to improve business and IT alignment. The purpose of this study is to identify benefits and blockers associated with specific EA-related activities and respective artifacts. Most existing studies discuss the benefits and problems of EA practice in general without relating them to specific activities constituting EA practice. This study is based on 18 interviews with architects and leverages the grounded theory approach. As a result of our analysis, we identify eight consistent activity areas constituting EA practice. Each activity area implies certain activities supported by some EA artifacts leading to specific benefits often impeded by some blockers. Our analysis indicates that EA practice includes many diverse activities usually, though not always, closely associated with specific types of EA artifacts. Moreover, benefits and blockers of EA practice are also very activity-specific.

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Challenges Facing Enterprise Architects: A South African Perspective

Cited by 24 publications

References 3 publications

The Role of Top Management Commitment in Enterprise Architecture Development in Governmental Organizations

The Role of Top Management Commitment in Enterprise Architecture Development in Governmental Organizations

Developing the enterprise architecture for the Namibian government

Artifacts, Activities, Benefits and Blockers: Exploring Enterprise Architecture Practice in Depth

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