Modelling the Resistance of Enterprise Architecture Adoption - Linking Strategic Level of Enterprise Architecture to Organisational Changes and Change Resistance

Abstract

During the last few years Enterprise Architecture (EA) has received increasing attention among industry and academia. By adopting EA, organisations may gain a number of benefits such as better decision making, increased revenues and cost reduction, and alignment of business and IT. However, EA adoption has been found to be difficult. In this paper a model to explain resistance during EA adoption process (REAP) is introduced and validated. The model reveals relationships between strategic level of EA, resulting organisational changes, and sources of resistance. By utilising REAP model, organisations may anticipate and prepare for the organisational change resistance during EA adoption.

Mitigating Enterprise Architecture Adoption Challenges - Improved EA Adoption Method

“…In 2014 the EA maturity in the state administration was 2.6 or below in the 5 level TOGAF maturity-model (Finnish Ministry of Finance, 2015). Several studies has found that EA is not well understood in Finnish public sector (Hiekkanen et al, 2013;Lemmetti and Pekkola, 2012;Seppänen, 2014;Syynimaa, 2015). According to Seppänen (2014) and Syynimaa (2015), the lack of EA knowledge is one of the main reasons hindering EA adoption…”