INF 80018 Enterprise Architecture, Strategy and Governance Assignment
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Enterprise Architecture, Strategy and Governance (INF 80018)
Added on 2020-05-08
INF 80018 Enterprise Architecture, Strategy and Governance Assignment
Enterprise Architecture, Strategy and Governance (INF 80018)
Added on 2020-05-08
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Running head: ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCEEnterprise architecture, Strategy and GovernanceName of the universityName of the studentAuthors note
1ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCETable of ContentsAnswer to question 1:......................................................................................................................2Reviewing the literature on enterprise architecture:........................................................................2Challenges faced in successful implementation of EA:..................................................................3Importance of understanding relational and social aspects of EA:..................................................4Dominant approached EA failure:...................................................................................................5Part 2:...............................................................................................................................................5Answer to question 2:......................................................................................................................5Examination of relationship between architect and their stakeholders:..........................................5Under researched areas of stakeholder relationship and architect that remain:...............................8Part 3:...............................................................................................................................................9Answer to question 3:......................................................................................................................9Implication for enterprise architecture practice:..............................................................................9
2ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCEPart 1: Answer to question 1:Reviewing the literature on enterprise architecture: Enterprise architecture (EA) is regarded as a strategy for aligning the informationtechnology and business within an enterprise. The maintenance, development and managementof enterprise architecture is done through the implementation technology of enterprise architect.EA has developed into a core competitive advantage as business is becoming holisticallyoccupied with coherency among organizational elements such as IT functions, business needsand strategy of organization. For business enabling to sustain in competitive advantage forenhancing decision making and increased efficient through information technology. The mainconcern of EA is to represent and understand the fundamental component of enterprise throughnotations and methods of modelling. The emergence of EA being in the beginning of 1980s withthe business system planning method of IBM and later on with the development of framework ofZachman (Abraham 2013). Main focus of EA is on standardizing existing process and providingtechnological solutions to business. This helps in alignment between information technology andrest of business. It was recognized by some authors that the basis of initiative of EA is successfulimplementation of architecture. A powerful framework has been provided to organizations through enterprise architecturefor managing, planning and coordinating the organizational strategy alignment. It was reviewedby early authors that implementation is considered as essential part of process of EA. Everyorganizations faces few problems that can be addressed only through the architecturedevelopment. However, most of architecture project fails because of weakening interest in effortgiven to architecture, failure of projects to address relevant issues, perception that documentation
3ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCEof architecture planning is not relevant and greater time requirement for delivering such project.In the later research, authors have paid attention on implementation issues and technicalchallenges of organizing and producing the plan of EA. A framework was developed byZachman in year 1987 that employed the approach of business planning system and providedemphasis on process of business, alignment of data and technology. A structure of informationmanagement of EA is provided by the original framework of Zachman. The original version offramework of Zachmanfor information system architecture isextended by Sowa in year 1992that led to crystallization of concept of enterprise (Cameron and McMillan 2013).Implementation is to require to be treated as part of plan development and implementationmodel. An actionable and appropriate level of information of architecture can be developed byimplementation challenge. There has been rapid growth in discipline of EA after 1992 withproduction of many methodologies, framework, models, description language descriptionlanguage, styles, and tool and model representation. Various factors are responsible fordevelopment of interest in EA such as disruptive change and opportunities brought toorganization through EA, network technologies propagation and effort toward inter connectionof functions and process of business (Simon et al. 2014)Challenges faced in successful implementation of EA:The addressing of problems resulting in failure of EA by researchers, rate of failure ofenterprise architect continues to rise and has become a cause of concern. It is revealed by recentsurvey on eighty nine organizations that 66% of EA efforts failed due to inadequate awarenessabout the benefits derived from such system, politics prevailing in organizations and distinctexpectations and perspectives of architects and stakeholders. It is projected by many practitionersof information technology and business that many EA projects fails and they have little
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