Adaptive Enterprise Architecture for the Future: Towards a Reconceptualization of EA

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne J. Korhonen ◽  
James Lapalme ◽  
Doug McDavid ◽  
Asif Q. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Enterprise Architecture Repository to Support the Company IT-Strategic

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 8736-8742
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Implementation Method ◽  
New Applications ◽  
Role Of Information

The objective of this study is to identify the role of information technology in companies. The use of IT should create a synergy between business strategies, business processes and technologies to achieve the vision, mission and objectives of the company, and to offer excellence in the future. For this reason, the study uses the EA framework, where there are artifacts that are stored digitally in the repository. This study uses the EA implementation method when the main points of the EA development steps are implemented. The results achieved are the integration of new applications that are expected to be properly implemented so that companies can read their strategies to deal with competitors. The conclusion is that the proposed application can help the company achieve its vision, mission and objectives. And all business processes can be managed effectively and efficiently so that the company can compete with its competitors today and in the future.

Enterprise and Technology Architectures

2011 ◽  
pp. 167-221
Author(s):  
Eng K. Chew ◽  
Petter Gottschalk
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
The State ◽  
State Change ◽  
It Strategy ◽  
Investment Portfolio ◽  
Future State ◽  
The Future

The role of integrated enterprise architecture in IT strategy and strategic alignment is explained in Chapter V. This chapter describes in detail the principles and methods for developing a business-aligned enterprise architecture that will define the roadmap to attain the future state of the enterprise envisioned by the business strategy and guide the IT investment portfolio necessary for the state change.

Systemic Enterprise Architecture as Future

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pallab Saha
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
National Priority ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

Governments are changing by design, necessity, and compulsion. This change is being exacerbated and shaped by megaforces that interact in a complex labyrinth of evolving nodes and connections. As a result, today’s government leaders and policy makers operate in a realm of confounding uncertainties and astounding complexities. These lead to incomplete and often non-actionable information that make decisions increasingly speculative. To unlock the grid and move forward, it is acknowledged that governments of the future have to be connected. Connected government is no utopia. It is simply a pragmatic approach to capitalize on complexity. Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a meta-discipline provides governments and leaders the means to address the twin challenges of dynamism and complexity. As governments become increasingly hyper-connected, they ought to be examined as systems, where holism, causality, heterarchy, and interrelationships are crucial to ensuring overall coherence in a state of omnipresent flux. This contrasts with the traditional fixation on efficiency and cost. Going beyond the rhetoric, this chapter demonstrates the value of amalgamating the systems approach within the EA methodology to address a national priority in Singapore, and provides insights to amplify the impact of EA by integrating creative thinking to tackle complex problems.

scholarly journals The Benefits of Enterprise Architecture for Library Technology Management: An Exploratory Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
Sam Searle
Keyword(s):  
Technology Management ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
It Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Strategic Procurement ◽  
Technology Specialists ◽  
Library Technology

This case study describes how librarians and enterprise architects at an Australian university worked together to document key components of the Library’s “as-is” enterprise architecture (EA). The article covers the rationale for conducting this activity, how work was scoped, the processes used, and the outputs delivered. The author discusses the short-term benefits of undertaking this work, with practical examples of how outputs from this process are being used to better plan future library system replacements, upgrades, and enhancements. Longer-term benefits may also accrue in the future as the results of this architecture work inform the Library’s IT planning and strategic procurement. This article has implications for practice for library technology specialists as it validates views from other practitioners on the benefits for libraries in adopting enterprise architecture methods and for librarians in working alongside enterprise architects within their organizations.

Systemic Enterprise Architecture as Future

2015 ◽  
pp. 1582-1648
Author(s):  
Pallab Saha
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
National Priority ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

Governments are changing by design, necessity, and compulsion. This change is being exacerbated and shaped by megaforces that interact in a complex labyrinth of evolving nodes and connections. As a result, today's government leaders and policy makers operate in a realm of confounding uncertainties and astounding complexities. These lead to incomplete and often non-actionable information that make decisions increasingly speculative. To unlock the grid and move forward, it is acknowledged that governments of the future have to be connected. Connected government is no utopia. It is simply a pragmatic approach to capitalize on complexity. Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a meta-discipline provides governments and leaders the means to address the twin challenges of dynamism and complexity. As governments become increasingly hyper-connected, they ought to be examined as systems, where holism, causality, heterarchy, and interrelationships are crucial to ensuring overall coherence in a state of omnipresent flux. This contrasts with the traditional fixation on efficiency and cost. Going beyond the rhetoric, this chapter demonstrates the value of amalgamating the systems approach within the EA methodology to address a national priority in Singapore, and provides insights to amplify the impact of EA by integrating creative thinking to tackle complex problems.

scholarly journals Application of organization goal-oriented requirement engineering (OGORE) methods in erp-based company business processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 545-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ford Lumban Gaol ◽  
Jonathan Danny ◽  
Tokuro Matsuo
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Requirement Engineering ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Tree Model ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Future System ◽  
The Future

AbstractThe implementation of an information system that supports company goals is the main strategy of an organization. But aligning business strategies with information system(IS) and information technology(IT) is not as easy as it seems, because there are several gaps of strategies between upper level and practical level. Often the focus in system development is only on the architecture of the future system, even though the study says that the engineering model of needs is the most important thing in the process of developing the company’s system. PT. SBS is a distributor and supplier company. Along with the development of its business, business processes also become more complex. The information system that was originally felt to be sufficient is considered to be no longer optimal so that it often results in delays in delivery with a fairly large percentage. Therefore, an Enterprise Resources Planning(ERP) system will be developed but it must be ensured that the business processes used are oriented towards organizational goals. The purpose of this study is to introduce and explain the stages of the Organization Goal-Oriented Requirement Engineering (OGORE) method as a requirement engineering method in a company’s business processes that focuses on organizational goals. The research method was done by collecting business process data and defining key performance indicators(KPIs) in a small discussion group with stakeholders in the company. The results of this method were Goal Tree Model (GTM) diagrams which was then used as a reference in describing new business processes and in preparing the requirements specification documents. The conclusion obtained that the stages of the OGORE method are able to eliminate needs according to the organization’s goals. It is also recommended to use the OGORE method as one of the requirements management steps in the Enterprise Architecture method to create new method as an agenda for the future.

scholarly journals Exploring the future of enterprise architecture: A Zachman perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 103-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Lapalme ◽  
Aurona Gerber ◽  
Alta Van der Merwe ◽  
John Zachman ◽  
Marne De Vries ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
The Future

Architecture Leadership and Systems Thinking

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Raghuraman Krishnamurthy
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Repetitive Tasks ◽  
The Future ◽  
Peter Drucker ◽  
Role Of Information

Gone are the days when organizations were concerned with increasing efficiency by mastering repetitive tasks. The competitive, boundary-less world of today has dramatically altered the primary challenges of an organization: fluidity, coherence, and connectedness are the hallmarks of successful organizations. Concomitant with this epochal transformation is the emergence of information systems as the backbone for conducting any business. Today, one cannot find any enterprise or government that is not permeated by information systems at all levels. That the role of information systems is so central to any organization is evident from the prescient words of management legend, Peter Drucker, that the future CEO may be the CIO. With extended enterprises so very common, how do we not lose sight at the bigger picture while making decisions? Systems thinking advocates cultivation of viewing the “whole” and seeing the parts (of the whole) in the context of dependence with other parts (of the whole) and their interactions. Architecture should help create necessary artifacts to understand and manage the complexities. Developing insights on how things work together and the influence of one part over the other is at the heart of architectural conversations. There is thus a natural connect between leadership, architecture, and systems thinking. This chapter explores the nature of evolving enterprises and the increasing relevance of systems thinking in architectural activities. The author discusses the importance of systems thinking to enterprise architecture and illustrate, with TOGAF as an example, how to apply the principles of systems thinking. A conceptual case study is presented to illustrate the application of systems thinking in architectural governance.

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