Enterprise architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
1. GovDept’s Projects that need to be Executed in Coming Years.............................................3
2. Key Role That IT can Play in GovDept’s Operations on Successful EA Implementation.....3
3. EA Artefacts that Would be Delivered to GovDept’s Operations in Coming Months...........4
4. Taxonomy of Documentation Implemented at GovDept........................................................5
5. Operating Model of GovDept’s EA.........................................................................................6
6. Role of Landscapes and Standards in GovDept’s implementation of EA...............................6
7. Five IT Initiatives Important to GovDept’s EA.......................................................................7
8. Factors GovDept Needs to Consider as Their EA Artefacts are Delivered.............................7
9. Subtypes of Vision in GovDept’s EA Implementation...........................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the strategic initiative through which business
organisations can organise and standardise their Information Technology operations, processes
as well as infrastructure to be aligned with their business’s end objectives and goals. EA is
adopted into the business operations of an organisation with the intention to digitally transform
its information technology department, in order to modernise its IT infrastructure and grow IT
operations (Hansen and Hacks, 2017). This report analyses GovDept, a mid-sized Governmental
department that provides social services to the public in its attempts to adopt the principles of EA
into their operations in order to grow and develop their IT department’s capabilities.
MAIN BODY
1. GovDept’s Projects that need to be Executed in Coming Years
On the basis of the case study provided, it is evident that GovDept’s leadership and
administration do not invest to improve and update the processes and operation conducted by
their information technology department and hold a reserved approach to the adoption of new
and innovative technologies that have the potential to massively improve and enhance the
operations, infrastructure and processes of their information technology department. This is a
major issue in the overall operations of GovDept and is the first project that needs to be executed
by them. Investment into its IT department’s hardware, storage and servers would effectively
allow GovDept’s IT department to perform new operations that can aid the performance and
efficiency of GovDept (Lapalme and et.al., 2016). The next project that GovDept needs to
execute is to invest into management software that can make use of its IT department’s new
hardware capabilities and allow the GovDept’s management to manage all of GovDept’s
operations dynamically in order to use limited resources more carefully and efficiently, collect
data about its various operations and processes and analyse the data to identify ways in which
GovDept’s operations can further be improved and enhanced, providing the business with
increased performance and efficiency.