Collaborative Enterprise Architecture

Ever-changing business needs have prompted large companies to rethink their enterprise IT. Today, businesses must allow interaction with their customers, partners, and employees at more touch points and at a depth never thought previously. At the same time, rapid advances in information technologies, like business digitization, cloud computing, and Web 2.0, demand fundamental changes in the enterprises' management practices. These changes have a drastic effect not only on IT and business, but also on policies, processes, and people. Many companies therefore embark on enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. The role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to architect and supervise this transformational journey.Unfortunately, today's EA is often a ponderous and detached exercise, with most of the EA initiatives failing to create visible impact. The enterprises need an EA that is agile and responsive to business dynamics. Collaborative Enterprise Architecture provides the innovative solutions today's enterprises require, informed by real-world experiences and experts' insights. This book, in its first part, provides a systematic compendium of the current best practices in EA, analyzes current ways of doing EA, and identifies its constraints and shortcomings. In the second part, it leaves the beaten tracks of EA by introducing Lean, Agile, and Enterprise 2.0 concepts to the traditional EA methods. This blended approach to EA focuses on practical aspects, with recommendations derived from real-world experiences. A truly thought provoking and pragmatic guide to manage EA, Collaborative Enterprise Architecture effectively merges the long-term oriented top-down approach with pragmatic bottom-up thinking, and that way offers real solutions to businesses undergoing enterprise-wide change.

Klappentext

Rapid advances in information technologies and ever-changing business needs have prompted large companies to embark on enterprise-wide transformations. Today, businesses must be "hyper-connected" if they are to thrive, with information readily accessible to partners, suppliers, customers, and employees. At the same time, digitization, cloud computing, agile software development, and Web 2.0, among other developments, demand fundamental changes in business practice. These changes have a drastic effect, not only on IT and business, but on processes, principles, and people. Traditional enterprise architecture has been unable to accommodate these trends, with 80% of initiatives failing. To better align their IT assets and business operations, companies need innovative EA strategies that are agile and responsive to changing business requirements. Collaborative Enterprise Architecture provides the practical solutions they require, informed by real-world case studies and experts insights. A hands-on guide to implementing EAM, this book merges top-down and pragmatic, bottom-up approaches to create successful architecture focused on business value, collaboration, innovation, and digitized business networks.

Inhalt

1. Why Collaborative Enterprise Architecture?

   2. What is Enterprise Architecture?

   3. What Enterprise Architects Do: Core Activities of EA

   4. EA Frameworks

   5. EA Maturity Models

   6. Foundations of Collaborative EA

   7. Towards Pragmatism: Lean and Agile EA

   8. Inviting to Participation: EAM 2.0