As organizations face accelerated economic dynamics, it is increasingly important to improve the capability of reacting agile to changes in the marketplace. This requires implementing and adapting internal structures in a timely manner and ensuring business-IT coordination throughout the process. Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is frequently proposed as a mean to arrive at organization...

Diese Arbeit beschreibt einen Ansatz, wie mithilfe von Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) die IT der öffentlichen Verwaltung modernisiert werden kann. Der Schwerpunkt der Überlegungen liegt darauf, wie mit wenigen Architekten möglichst viel erreicht wird. Hierzu werden einige Methoden bzw. Werkzeuge vorgestellt, die darauf abzielen, schnelle und wirklich hilfreiche Ergebnisse zu erzielen....

Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is expected to provide business value by guiding the continuous development and transformation of an enterprise. Based on the approach we strive for constructing useful artifacts that guide the successful and situational design of EAM. In order to do so we argue for a thorough analysis of the design problem in advance. This is realized by a two-step surv...

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is considered a means to support coordination in enterprises. However, coordination between heterogeneous stakeholder groups with different interests is a challenging task to achieve. In this paper, we take a game-theoretic perspective on coordination in organizations. We identify three coordination games from literature: (1) Matching game, (2) Battle of...

Increasing tendency of organizations operating on an international scale results in higher variation of company's business models and operations. Royal Philips N.V is one of the multinational companies facing the challenge of managing differences in the processes caused by country-specific fiscal regulations. The differences in regulations drive variability not only in the process design, but a...

Much existing research on IS and enterprise architecture focuses on suggesting different representations describing a ‘target architecture’ for processes, information and information systems at different levels across the organization. Less emphasis has been put on the actual evolution of the current enterprise architecture towards this envisioned ‘target architecture’. In this paper we look at...

Enterprise architecture is an important instrument to address company-wide integration both from a business and an IT point of view. Companies that choose to implement an Enterprise Architecture initiative often believe that if a description of the company’s architecture exists it will automatically generate value to the company but sadly, this is usually not the case. Even if companies know th...