Enterprise Architecture: A Reconceptualization Is Needed

IF 2.4 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
S. Kotusev
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Abstract

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a description of an organization from an integrated business and IT perspective. Current literature conceptualizes EA as a comprehensive blueprint of an enterprise organized according to a logical framework and describing its current state, desired future state and migration roadmap. However, the current concept of EA originates from non-empirical sources, lacks demonstrated examples of its successful practical implementation and deviates from the real practical use of EA in organizations in multiple important aspects. Due to these and other problems the notion of EA needs to be reconceptualized in order to more accurately reflect empirical realities. In this paper, based on an extensive EA literature review, I describe the problems with the current concept of EA, demonstrate the critical inconsistencies between this concept and the real practice use of EA in organizations and illustrate them based on a recent exemplary case study of a successful EA practice. Although this paper justifies the need for the reconceptualization of EA and points to the most essential aspects of this reconceptualization, it does not offer an alternative ready-to-use conceptualization and represents only the first step towards developing a new, evidence-based concept of EA.
企业架构:需要重新概念化
企业架构(EA)是从集成的业务和IT角度对组织的描述。当前文献将EA概念化为根据逻辑框架组织的企业的综合蓝图,并描述其当前状态、期望的未来状态和迁移路线图。然而,当前的EA概念来源于非经验来源,缺乏其成功实践实施的演示示例,并且在多个重要方面偏离了EA在组织中的实际应用。由于这些和其他问题,EA的概念需要重新概念化,以便更准确地反映经验现实。在本文中,基于广泛的EA文献回顾,我描述了当前EA概念的问题,演示了该概念与组织中EA的实际实践使用之间的关键不一致,并基于最近成功的EA实践的示例案例研究来说明它们。尽管本文证明了EA重新概念化的必要性,并指出了这种重新概念化的最基本方面,但它并没有提供一个可供选择的现成的概念化,并且只代表了开发一个新的、以证据为基础的EA概念的第一步。
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