Enterprise architecture adoption issues and challenges: a systematic literature review

Abstract

<p>This article on Systematic Literature Review (SLR) provides the issues and challenges faced by organizations when adopting EA. Firstly, a review of literature that discusses the problems and challenges was undertaken. Methods and theories adopted were reviewed to identify the existing approach and perspective on resulting factors that influenced EA adoption. Based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria defined in the review process, 16 articles were selected. A total of 19 challenges and problems were identified such as EA misconceptions, overlapping organizational rules, unclear leadership as well as lack of business and IT alignment. A sum of 15 factors from multidimensional contexts that influenced the EA adoption in the organization were also discussed, such as top management support, governance, communication as well as EA knowledge and skill. This SLR also reflected that there were relatively little empirical studies conducted on EA adoption studies. The existing studies tend to apply single and multiple theories from the organization and management domains in one study. By understanding such issues and challenges, risks can be reduced and avoided when introducing EA to organizations, and subsequently ease the deployment process. Thus, this article may shed light on understanding the organizational-related factors and the underlying relationships of EA adoption. As a result, an effective adoption of EA can be facilitated in the organizations.</p>

Ascertaining Factors that Influence the Intention to Adopt Enterprise Architecture Among Malaysian Public Sector Organisations – A Pilot Contemplation

“…These include misconception of EA, lack of business-IT alignment, lack of management support and organisational procedures, and lack of EA use [7]. The literature review has also shown that the misconception of EA is a critical problem that was highlighted by previous research, followed by organisational rule, lack of business and IT alignment, unclear leadership, lack of management support, and governance.…”

“…Based on the SLR findings, we identified issues and factors are from fragmented contexts across Information System studies [7,10]. Therefore, the present study employs variables from Technology, Organisation, and Environment (TOE) framework to discover the contributing factors in the EA adoption.…”

“…Although studies can be found from Finland [5] and Norway [6] in terms of EA adoption, results from these developed countries cannot be applied in the Malaysian context. Furthermore, previous studies only provide insights from fragmented contexts such as organisational or technological context [7]. There are three groups of adoption phases: preadoption, adoption, and post-adoption [8].…”

“…Adoption is decision or intention to adopt, while post-adoption includes confirmation of innovation, user acceptance, and actual use of innovation [9]. There are insufficient benchmarked proposed solutions found in the previous studies for EA in the adoption phase in organisations [7,10]. According to an expert from Lead Agency in MPS, although Malaysia Government Enterprise Architecture (MyGovEA) had been introduced in 2014 and many awareness programmes had been conducted until 2018, the EA adoption level in public sector organisations is still low [11,12].…”

Readiness, acceptance and use of e-health systems in hospitals and health centers of north western ethiopia

“…The support and commitment of the top management and user training are the organizational factors that influence the implementation of new information systems [12,18]. The work by [17] confirmed top management support, User Training, user involvement and facilitating conditions are major organizational factors influencing e-health acceptance [17].…”