Enterprise Architecture Management: Toward a Taxonomy of Applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 120-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Rahimi ◽  
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John Gøtze ◽  
Charles Møller ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Architecture Management ◽  
Architecture Management

Conceptual Model of Enterprise Architecture Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (03) ◽  
pp. 1730001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svyatoslav Kotusev
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Enterprise Architecture Management ◽  
It Alignment ◽  
Current State ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Business And It Alignment ◽  
Transition Plan ◽  
Architecture Management

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a description of an enterprise from an integrated business and IT perspective. Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is a management practice embracing all the management processes related to EA aiming to improve business and IT alignment. EAM is typically described as a sequential four-step process: (i) document the current state, (ii) describe the desired future state, (iii) develop the transition plan and (iv) implement the plan. This traditional four-step approach to EAM essentially defines the modern understanding of EA. Based on a literature review, this paper demonstrates that this four-step approach to EAM, though practiced by some companies, is inadequate as a model explaining the EAM phenomenon in general. As a substitute, this paper synthesizes the generic conceptual model of EAM providing a more realistic conceptualization of EAM describing it as a decentralized network of independent but interacting processes, artifacts and actors.

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