Management Structure Based Government Enterprise Architecture Framework Adaption in Situ

Abstract

The fragmentation of the public sector makes it difficult to manage strategically and architecturally as a whole. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is considered as an improvement to that. Architectural modeling and visualization of the general management strategy plans along with parallel database development in a local government forms the primary data in the longitudinal case study using Action Design Research Method. To find a proper organizational fit for the EA framework in public sector, we reflect on how the current state architectural descriptions got organized in situ in a deep corporate hierarchy, and what were the emerging management needs in reorganizing the content of the descriptions. We suggest the EA framework in public sector as a strategic corporate management tool. As for the current state EA descriptions, we propose implementing the framework not as a static, but as a dynamic data model of the current management structures.

Ecosystem Architecture Management in the Public Sector – From Problems to Solutions

“…The proposed IS vision and the tentative government ecosystem architecture target state design process form a continuum in abductive DSR cycles concerning EA framework adaption in Finnish PA [5], [16], [74], that suggested two things. First, the current state EA descriptions of a government ecosystem were to be modeled as structural, rearrangeable descriptions, e.g.…”

“…This study is constructed as a design science research, based on our observations in Finnish public administration EA adoption, (e.g. [16], [17]), as well as the anticipations of the future EA in business ecosystems, (e.g. [12]).…”

Enterprise Architectures in E-Governments Studies: Why, What and How?

“…Some studies have been motivated to satisfy technical requirements. Such efforts are like an agile EA framework proposed to support government transformation with cloud technology enabled [21], an EA based approach to manage state-level data in real time in the Indian public sector of healthcare [22], a method to find patterns for enterprise information architecture in governments [23], a proposal for a framework for ICT governance [25], and a government EA framework to support big and open linked data and cloud computing [24,26].…”

“…For instance, government EA frameworks that have been used in Colombia [38], Finland [37], Indonesia [20], Brazil [41] were presented. More specifically, the EA framework including the architecture and methodology to support using big data and cloud computing was described [24,26]. Similarly, the use of an agile EA framework to develop and implement the cloud-enabled government was proposed [21].…”

“…For instance, activity theory was used to help revealing the importance of non-technical factors in the deployment of EA [30]. Action design was used when performing the longitudinal case study of government EA adoption in Finnish public sector [24]. TOGAF and SONA were used to develop EAs in the case of the volcanoes monitoring system [40] and EA score card was used for validation and assessment.…”