IRMUK Article Re-Thinking Enterprise Architecture Using Systems And Complexity Approaches

IRMUK Article Re-Thinking Enterprise Architecture Using Systems And Complexity Approaches

Description

This paper looks at the issues currently confronting enterprise architects and the challenges posed when extending EA to be the architecture of the enterprise rather than just its information technology. It describes the contribution that Systems Practice and other disciplines can make to Enterprise Architecture, and considers how the Cynefin sense-making framework can be used to help indicate the most appropriate types of approach. The paper was commissioned for the Journal of Enterprise Architecture and published there in November 2010. It develops ideas that were presented at an ICEIMT workshop on “The Future Enterprise Architecture: Fusion of Management Science and Engineering” in Bled, Slovenia in December 2009, and at the EAC Europe conference in London in June 2010.

Authors (for this Publication)

• Bean, Sally

Publication Dates

• 2011 - 02

Domain Subject Areas (that this Publication elaborates)

• Architecture Uses & Principles
• Enterprise Architecture
• Stakeholders & Roles
• Systems Theory