Matching Technology with Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Architecture Management Tasks Using Task Technology Fit

Eybers, Sunet; Gerber, Aurona; Bork, Dominik; Karagiannis, Dimitris

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-20618-5_17

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“…The results show heterogeneity concerning the used tools. Some tools are open source (e.g., Archi [43] and Draw.io [44]), some are proprietary (e.g., ADOit [45]), and some are research prototypes that adopt ArchiMate (e.g., TEAM [46], [47]).…”

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Enterprise Architecture Management Education in Academia: An International Comparative Analysis

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Bork

2022

J. Complex Syst. Inform. Model. Q.

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Enterprise architecture (EA), although matured in more than 30 years of ongoing research, receives more importance with the increasing dependency of business in IT and the growing complexity of IT systems. The integrated management of a companies’ goals, structures, and processes with respect to the business and IT elements, as well as the representation of impacts triggered by planned changes is educated in different ways at many universities all over the world. There are several techniques, methods, tools, and approaches to transfer the knowledge from the educators to the students, giving them the qualification to support their future employers in handling the EA challenges modern companies are facing. This work gives a detailed comparative analysis of more than twenty international educational offers regarding Enterprise Architecture Management, carves out the commonalities and finds two prototypical courses as a best-practice combining the strongest matches for Business Informatics and Computer Science studies alike.

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Enterprise Architecture Management Education in Academia: An International Comparative Analysis

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Bork

2022

J. Complex Syst. Inform. Model. Q.

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“…EA for understanding enterprises: Within this broad perspective, EA is used as a mechanism to understand organisations and subsequently propose interventions [26,57,[84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92]. None of the literature that reflects this position adopts the position that EA is a theory even though the use of EA to understand and describe a phenomenon supports the notion of EA as a theory.…”

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Enterprise Architecture as Explanatory Information Systems Theory for Understanding Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprise Growth

2020

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Understanding and explaining small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth is important for sustainability from multiple perspectives. Research indicates that SMEs comprise more than 80% of most economies, and their cumulative impact on sustainability considerations is far from trivial. In addition, for sustainability concerns to be prioritized, an SME has to be successful over time. In most developing countries, SMEs play a major role in solving socio-economic challenges. SMEs are an active research topic within the information systems (IS) discipline, often within the enterprise architecture (EA) domain. EA fundamentally adopts a systems perspective to describe the essential elements of a socio-technical organization and their relationships to each other and to the environment in order to understand complexity and manage change. However, despite rapid adoption originally, EA research and practice often fails to deliver on expectations. In some circles, EA became synonymous with projects that are over-budget, over-time and costly without the expected return on investment. In this paper, we argue that EA remains indispensable for understanding and explaining enterprises and that we fundamentally need to revisit some of the applications of EA. We, therefore, executed a research study in two parts. In the first part, we applied IS theory perspectives and adopted the taxonomy and structural components of theory to argue that EA, as represented by the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture (ZFEA), could be adopted as an explanatory IS theory. In the second part of the study, we subsequently analysed multiple case studies from this theoretical basis to investigate whether distinguishable focus patterns could be detected during SME growth. The final results provide evidence that EA, represented through an appropriate framework like the ZFEA, could serve as an explanatory theory for SMEs during start-up, growth and transformation. We identified focus patterns and from these results, it should be possible to understand and explain how SMEs grow. Positioning the ZFEA as explanatory IS theory provides insight into the role and purpose of the ZFEA (and by extension EA), and could assist researchers and practitioners with mediating the challenges experienced by SMEs, and, by extension, enhance sustainable development.

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Matching Technology with Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Architecture Management Tasks Using Task Technology Fit

Cited by 2 publications

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Enterprise Architecture Management Education in Academia: An International Comparative Analysis

Enterprise Architecture Management Education in Academia: An International Comparative Analysis

Enterprise Architecture as Explanatory Information Systems Theory for Understanding Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprise Growth

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