Institutional Perspectives on the Process of Enterprise Architecture Adoption

Dang, Duong; Pekkola, Samuli

doi:10.1007/s10796-019-09944-8

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“…The empirical findings from this case analysis show that prioritizing the EA logic is difficult in hospital projects despite executive-level support. These findings complement prior research that has mostly explored EA initiatives at the executive level identifying overarching challenges and enablers (for instance, Banaeianjahromi & Smolander, 2016;Dang & Pekkola, 2019;Iyamu & Mphahlele, 2014). Our study suggests that the operationalization of EA in hospital projects requires some level of adaptation of EA principles and methodological premises.…”

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confidence: 86%

Enterprise architecture operationalization and institutional pluralism: The case of the Norwegian Hospital sector

Ajer

Hustad

Vassilakopoulou

2021

Information Systems Journal

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Enterprise architecture (EA) is a systematic way of designing, planning, and implementing process and technology changes to address the complexity of information system (IS) landscapes. EA is operationalized when architecture visions move towards realization through concrete projects. We report a case study on the dynamics of operationalizing EA in the Norwegian hospital sector by exploring different EA project trajectories. Our empirical context is an institutionally pluralistic setting where multiple logics coexist. We show that the distinct logic of EA is added to the institutional context and we find that tensions among existing medical, technical, and managerial logics and EA principles and assumptions emerge. We contribute to the under‐researched topic of EA operationalization by suggesting a model that demonstrates how the meeting of multiple institutional logics can lead to varying degrees of differentiation or even disassociation from EA visions during decision‐taking in projects. Furthermore, we advance extant research on IS projects' implementation in institutionally pluralistic settings by providing an empirical account of actors' interactions and project leadership arrangements that contribute to the persistence of coexisting logics in a dynamic equilibrium.

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Enterprise architecture operationalization and institutional pluralism: The case of the Norwegian Hospital sector

Ajer

Hustad

Vassilakopoulou

2021

Information Systems Journal

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“…There are a number of adoption factors focusing on EA in various organizations and in academic institutions. Thus, majority of literatures emphasized organizational, technology and human dimensions as the structural factors of EA adoption (Dang and Pekkola, 2019;Paireekreng et al, 2018;Seymour et al, 2010). The gap that is intended to address of this research is to identify the principal and ancillary factors of EA adoption, particularly from the first academic institution in the Philippines to adopt EA.…”

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Discovering the Primary and Secondary Factors That Influenced the First Philippine Academic Institution to Adopt Enterprise Architecture

Cruz¹,

Ching²

2021

International Conference on Education

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Academic Institutions utilize various ICT mechanisms to manage institution data, retrieve information, sustain financial activities, and deal with digital culture to create the learning and teaching setting. Thus, Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the ICT strategy employed in the domain to engage with radical changes and permuting trends. The purpose of EA is to organize and standardize Information Technology (IT) components to align with institution’s goals. Qualitative analysis was conducted to discover the factors that instigated the first academic institution in the Philippines to adopt EA as an ICT tool for its long-term strategy. The approach was an exploratory research design to closely examine data through thematic analysis, focusing on inductive reasoning that emphasizes the data convened from the semi-structured interviews with an open-ended question. The result of the interviews was graded as primary and secondary factors which influenced the adoption process. Primary factors are the elements that drives the EA adoption such as the organizational structure and human traits, while secondary factors consist of the characteristics of the transformation, specifically the intended techniques, proposed transformation capabilities, transformation obstacles and institutional perspectives. The purpose of this enquiry is to disseminate the primary and secondary factors, discovered from the first academic institution in the Philippines, to various academic institutions and other sectors with similar settings, as a learning ground and bedrock of future possibilities for EA adoption. Thus, the challenge for subsequent EA adopters is to utilize and strengthen the primary and secondary factors to boost the success of transformation for competitive advantage. The future research should gravitate towards factors of EA nonadoption in academic institutions and other sectors as EA is still emerging slowly particularly in the Philippines. Keywords: Academic Institution; Enterprise Architecture; Adoption Factors, Digitalization, Knowledge management, Transformation Capabilities, Transformation Obstacles

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“…EA is a comprehensive and holistic tool for managing and maintaining alignment between business and IT [4] [8] [18][19] [20]. It assists companies in achieving their goals by designing information technology that supports the integration of business and IT strategies [18][21] [22][23] [24]. BITA is crucial management attention that supports managers in achieving organizational goals, improving workflow, increasing profitability, making informed IT investment decisions, maintaining competitive advantage, and enhancing organizational performance [18] [25].…”

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Business-IT Alignment through Enterprise Architecture in a Strategic Alignment Dimension: A Review

Yoppy Mirza Maulana,

Azmi,

Phon

2023

regist. j. ilm. teknol. sist. inf.

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Business-IT Alignment (BITA) refers to the fit between business and IT strategy. BITA is important for realizing the achievement of organizational goals, enhancing performance, and gaining competitive advantage in an organization. BITA is a crucial concern for organizations and remains a top topic from the perspective of business executives. BITA can be realized through Enterprise Architecture (EA), which is a comprehensive and holistic instrument for managing and maintaining BITA. However, despite numerous literature studies on the BITA model or framework through EA, the research is currently more focused on technology planning than strategic planning. Meanwhile, strategic planning is the most crucial challenge of the EA framework because it is the embodiment of BITA in the strategic alignment dimension. The current study aims to conduct a literature review of BITA through EA in the strategic alignment dimension. This literature study resulted in 25 out of 100 papers and classified into five strategic alignments. The review identified 25 relevant papers out of 100 and categorized them into five strategic alignments. The study's contributions include solutions in the form of stages for developing strategic alignment through EA based on business strategy models. The five stages are as follows: 1) Identification of vision, mission, and goals; 2) SWOT-based strategy analysis; 3) BSC-based strategy mapping; 4) BPMN-based business process mapping; and 5) Determination of IS/IT. This study's impact on further research is that it can be used as a basis for developing BITA through EA, based on the five stages identified.

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Institutional Perspectives on the Process of Enterprise Architecture Adoption

Cited by 12 publications

References 54 publications

Enterprise architecture operationalization and institutional pluralism: The case of the Norwegian Hospital sector

Enterprise architecture operationalization and institutional pluralism: The case of the Norwegian Hospital sector

Discovering the Primary and Secondary Factors That Influenced the First Philippine Academic Institution to Adopt Enterprise Architecture

Business-IT Alignment through Enterprise Architecture in a Strategic Alignment Dimension: A Review

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