Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is supposed to be a helpful means to support the management of enterprise transformations, i.e., fundamental changes. However, in current corporate practice, there seems to be no regular application of EAM as leading authority or support service for enterprise transformation. Thus, we examine, which activities need to be conducted in order to manage ente...

Rigorous modelling techniques and specialised analysis methods support enterprise architects when embarking on enterprise architecture management (EAM). Yet, while customised modelling solutions provide scalability, adaptability and flexibility they are often in conflict with generic or reusable visualisations. We present an approach to augment customised modelling with the techniques of model ...

Adopting an engaged scholarship, particularly design science research approach, we explore design principles for heterogeneity decisions in enterprise architecture management (EAM). The holistic design of an enterprise’s business processes and the architecture of IT systems has been an important IS research topic for many years, but the majority of past studies in our discipline took predominan...

Despite the increasing popularity of enterprise architecture management (EAM) in practice, many EAM initiatives either do not fully meet the expected targets or fail. EAM frameworks have been suggested as guidelines to EAM implementation, but our experience indicates that very few companies follow the steps prescribed by such frameworks. Motivated by the diverse approaches that we have observed...

Continuous business, technical, and regulatory changes constantly force organizations to transform. Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is a means to plan, conduct, and coordinate these complex transformations. It provides a holistic view, a common vocabulary, and a solid decision base for enterprise transformation planning. And yet, with issues like a decoupling between requirements and f...

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) evolved to a powerful function to support organizations in strategic decision making and in the fulfillment of business requirements. The organization of an EAM function is not an easy task and demands for best practices that are suited to the specific needs of an organization. The pattern-based EAM approach constitutes a collection of such best practice...

Die zunehmende Bedeutung der Informationstechnologie, die Vielzahl der verschiedenen Aufgaben sowie die Unabhängigkeit der Fachabteilungen und die damit verbundenen individuellen IT-Entscheidungen führen zu einer Ansammlung von vielen individuellen IT-Systemen. Die Folge sind heterogene, komplexe und intransparente IT-Landschaften, die schwer managebar sind. In der Privatwirtschaft werden diese...

Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is a means to guide the consistent evolution of business and IT artifacts from an enterprise-wide perspective. This paper aims at understanding the means by which EAM supports this coordination task. Informed by theory of coordination and based on empirical data (n=95) we group participating enterprises in different clusters: (1) non-coordinators, (2) do...

This paper examines the ramifications of this discovery in project management by researching an ontological methodology for specifying the domain knowledge and data model of multi-site project management (MSPM), and verifies that the value of the MSPM ontological methodology goes beyond creating consistencies in making MSPM knowledge explicit. The MSPM ontological methodology is a new governanc...

nowadays, many of organizations, who are involved in enterprise architecting, make their own architecture framework or customize existing frameworks. these endeavors are based on the knowledge and the experience of each organization, and there is no defined method for developing the enterprise architecture framework. therefore, a method for developing architecture framework is presented in this...