Leveraging the Zachman framework implementation using action – research methodology – a case study: aligning the enterprise architecture and the business goals

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Nogueira ◽  
David Romero ◽  
Javier Espadas ◽  
Arturo Molina
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Zachman Framework

scholarly journals Lean Management “Quick-Wins”: Results of Implementation. A Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Rodrigues ◽  
José C.V. De Sá ◽  
Luís P. Ferreira ◽  
Francisco J.G. Silva ◽  
Gilberto Santos
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Occupancy Rate ◽  
Implementation Evaluation ◽  
Kurt Lewin ◽  
Lean Tools ◽  
Research Action

<p><strong>Purpose:</strong> This study comprised two main goals. The first goal demonstrates how LT (Lean Tools) allows the highest impact during the implementation phase.The second goal consisted of introducing procedure changes based on the Management of Human Resources through Lean Leadership tool. The target for these two objectives is to achieve an increase of 5% in machine occupancy rate and a reduction of 10% regarding the costs of defective products per hour.</p><p><strong>Methodology/Approach:</strong> The research methodology is a Action-Research/Research-Action developed by Professor Kurt Lewin of MIT that goes through cycles of five stages: Diagnosis; Planning; Implementation; Evaluation, Conclusions.</p><p><strong>Findings:</strong> Regarding the two objectives above mentioned, it was observed an increase of 8.5% in machine occupancy rate and a reduction of 27.9% regarding the costs per hour of defective products. It was created an additional motivation in the employees and very satisfying results in every production.</p><p><strong>Research Limitation/implication:</strong> The study is limited to a Portuguese Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) in the metalworking sector.</p><p><strong>Originality/Value of paper:</strong> Lean tools can be rapidly and easily implemented and quickly understood by the workers. With that implementation, the occupation of the machines has increased and the defects and their costs have decreased, so the added value grows.</p>

scholarly journals Enterprise Architecture and Organizational Benefits: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 8237
Author(s):  
Farrukh Saleem ◽  
Bahjat Fakieh
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Organizational Benefits ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Business Agility ◽  
Benefits Realization

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a framework that consists of multiple processes to align business strategies with information technology (IT) architecture. It helps the organization standardize business operations and incorporate systems in different layers to achieve business goals and organizational benefits. This study focuses on identifying organizational benefits that can be achieved through EA implementation. The study comprises three main phases: (i) benefits realization (from literature review), (ii) benefits reconfirmation (from EA experts), and (iii) benefits validation (through a case study). Specifically, the benefits considered in this study are related to EA products, services, and strategies are known as: (i) business agility, (ii) creating competitive advantage, and (iii) increasing value. The study covers a vast literature review to define the current status of EA and organizational benefits. In addition, the study incorporates a number of measuring factors for each EA benefits with the help of a literature review. The initial findings reconfirmed and modified based on the experts’ opinions collected through interview sessions. The research applied the grounded theory and qualitative approach to analyze the interview sessions. Accordingly, using the experts’ advice, we proposed a model to show the steps and guidelines for assessing EA organizational benefits using corresponding measuring factors and sub-criteria. Finally, the proposed model validated through an in-depth case study to get final confirmation and see the model fits reality. Overall, this research highlight the potential benefits an organization can achieve from EA framework implementation. The proposed framework can assist EA decision-makers to understand and realize the EA benefits and its assessment process.

Extending Enterprise Architecture with Mobility

2011 ◽  
pp. 356-369
Author(s):  
Ming-Chien (Mindy) Wu ◽  
Bhuvan Unhelkar
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Multinational Organizations ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Reduced Costs

The Enterprise Architecture (EA) brings together various business processes, technologies, standards, systems, and IT infrastructure of the organization. This chapter considers extending the EA with mobility so that it would facilitate easier implementation of applications that overcomes the boundaries of time and location. This extension of EA with mobility will result in a comprehensive Mobility Enterprise Architecture (M-EA) that will provide the business with advantages of real-time business processes, reduced costs, increased client satisfaction, and better control. This chapter outlines the M-EA framework, which is based on the literature review, initial modeling, and a case study carried out by the lead authors. Later, the framework is validated by another case study carried out at international software development organization. Further validation of the model is envisaged through action research in multinational organizations.

scholarly journals The impact of conceptual structures on transaction and enterprise architecture practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Richard Lindsay Fallon
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Enterprise Systems ◽  
Formal Concept ◽  
Secondary Research ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
The Impact

This research hypothesises is Conceptual Structures using the Resource Event Agent (REA) ontology adds value when defining a Transaction Oriented Architecture (TOA) for Enterprise Systems. Enterprise Systems drive global economic growth through well-designed implementations that provide organisations with multiple benefits, including streamlined business processes, increased efficiencies, improved productivity and decreased costs. Conversely, poorly implemented Enterprise Systems can lead to poor operating results. Most Enterprise Systems still use traditional methods of storing economic data mirroring the double-entry bookkeeping system, which can cause several problems, including data loss and repetition. Enterprise Systems must capture transaction data in a format available to multiple business processes to fulfil their goals. This thesis provides an overview of the currently available frameworks for Enterprise Architecture design. It details the problems that are observed and experienced during the completion of real-world Enterprise System development projects. The basis of the Transaction Concept is then presented as the general solution, leading to a TOA for Enterprise Systems. The Transaction Pyramid describes TOA through three layers of transactions: Enterprise, Business, and Database. The Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM) is used as the primary research methodology to provide a framework to this research. Together with the secondary research method of Action Research to provide a more granular basis for DSRM Step 3 : "Design and development", which required multiple minor iterations of the cyclical process of Action Research to produce the required artefacts. The case study approach is used also as a secondary research method for empirical inquiry and investigation required for DSRM step 4: "Demonstration". A Knowledge Management System is defined to validate TOA, and artefacts are implemented for an Automated REA (AREA) based on Protégé Frames to underpin TOA as a Proof of Concept. AREA provides a fully- edged, TOA design tool for Enterprise Architecture using the REA ontology. AREA's Knowledge Repository uses Conceptual Structures through a) the ISO Common Logic standard's Conceptual Graph Interchange Format (CGIF) to store and transmit the TOA using an REA ontology, and b) Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) for validation. AREA is then demonstrated and evaluated using two industrial case studies as exemplars. These Findings support the research's hypothesis and its contribution to knowledge.

Survey & Case Study: Indonesian Needs Changing (New Era of Educational Research in the Mid of Pandemic)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
thobias sarbunan
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Main Research ◽  
National Education

We in a fact of Indonesia educator have been struggling in major of educational human resources, which come-up of the research methodology as a burden science aspect. In addition, the primidone of research method in education system was classroom action research and/or action research. This means, educator tend to conduct an action research for the safe zone rather than scaffold to another marry research method, outside of main research method. In other word, we can said that they want to play in safe level or action research for them, it is a concreate method that guaranteed-facilitated teaching and learning to achieve the best improvement. However, in fact, because of their research behaviour it will cause a hinder point such as in the pandemic, which someone unable or lack of research methodology paradigms, he or she will stuck or in crucial situation can be lost of knowledge development. Directly, student’s will lost their improvement, and whole system of education. In further, by the purpose of this paper to reconstructed-and promoted research capacity of Indonesia educator through enlightens the knowledge of survey and case study uses, researcher concluded that, both survey and case study, were accordance to educational research foundation, which postulated to develop in sustainable capacity of educational human resources also administration. So that like in pandemic outbreak, besides conducting an action research, educators were able to synthesize-analyse-evaluate-develop knowledge based also teaching and learning, to meet the goal of national education.

Extending Enterprise Architecture with Mobility

2009 ◽  
pp. 487-498
Author(s):  
Ming-Chien (Mindy) Wu ◽  
Bhuvan Unhelkar
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Multinational Organizations ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
Reduced Costs

The Enterprise Architecture (EA) brings together various business processes, technologies, standards, systems, and IT infrastructure of the organization. This chapter considers extending the EA with mobility so that it would facilitate easier implementation of applications that overcomes the boundaries of time and location. This extension of EA with mobility will result in a comprehensive Mobility Enterprise Architecture (M-EA) that will provide the business with advantages of real-time business processes, reduced costs, increased client satisfaction, and better control. This chapter outlines the M-EA framework, which is based on the literature review, initial modeling, and a case study carried out by the lead authors. Later, the framework is validated by another case study carried out at international software development organization. Further validation of the model is envisaged through action research in multinational organizations.

Tempo e management accounting: un caso aziendale

2012 ◽  
pp. 9-35
Author(s):  
Marco Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Capture Time ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
The Relationship

Someone would argue that in accounting studies time tends to be left out from discussions and therefore research designs or theories risk to be temporally incorrect or incomplete as well as processes are misunderstood or misrepresented. Assuming that accounting is not only able to measure and report time but can also contribute to the construction of specific aspects of it, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between time and management accounting. To investigate this idea a case study will be examined adopting an action research methodology. The main findings of the study are the following. Firstly, in accounting there is the need to combine the different conceptions of time (objective vs. subjective; cyclical vs. non-cyclical) in order to fully understand a phenomenon. Secondly, accounting tends to capture time only from a quantitative perspective, overlooking its qualitative aspects. Moreover, accounting enables talking about time and achieving a more and more sophisticated and shared perception of the temporal dimension.

Implementation of the enterprise architecture through the Zachman Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiko Iyamu
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Zachman Framework ◽  
Interpretive Method

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a guide through which the Zachman Framework can be used to address challenges and for successful implementation of enterprise architecture (EA) in an organisation that deploys it. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative research methods were followed, within which the case study approach was applied. The interpretive method was used in the analysis of the qualitative data. Findings Based on the findings, a method is proposed through which EA can be implemented in an organisation by using the Zachman Framework. Originality/value This is an original research work. Also, the paper has not been submitted to other journal for review and possible publication.

FOSTERING STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES IN ENGLISH WRITING WITH MICROBLOGGING IN TWITTER

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Pham Thi Thu Hien
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology

Twitter and Microblogging are two separate entities but completes each other. Both of them can be used as language learning tools and their potential has been proved by several scholars. This study tries to examine students’ experiences in integrating microblogging with twitter. It is also study about the beneficial roles of microblogging with Twitter in language learning, its relation to writing, and its appropriateness in language learning. This study employs a qualitative research methodology, and case study as its research design. Semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were employed in this study to find out about participants' views about microblogging and Twitter. From this study, it can be concluded that the participants of the study underwent various experiences during the implementation of microblogging with Twitter. They also felt that microblogging with Twitter at some point advantages them to systematically arrange their ideas, and allows them to choose appropriate diction of their ideas. They also stated that Twitter can be an appropriate means in language learning, especially in English writing<em>.</em>

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