Collaboration Engineering Approach to Enterprise Architecture Design Evaluation and Selection

Before an organisation takes up a particular enterprise architecture design, there is need to consider and evaluate the possible design alternatives, and then select an appropriate one. This process requires a collaborative effort involving all key stakeholders in order to obtain an ‘acceptable’ solution. Therefore, in this paper we propose the development of a transferable, predictable and repeatable process that supports collaborative evaluation and selection of enterprise architecture design alternatives. To achieve this, we propose the use of collaboration engineering approach. Additionally, a fictitious case of airline mergers is used in order to demonstrate the; problem argued, rationale for solving it, effective and efficient way of solving it, and applicability of the proposed research. This research is under the supervision of Dr. Patrick van Bommel and Prof. Dr. H.A. (Erik) Proper.