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July 18, 2005
First Verion of My Status Report
The reason that my blog has been silent for a while is that I have been working hard to get my PhD-status report ready before I go to the US in September. The status report describes the current state of my 4-year PhD project initiated in February 2004. The main body of the report deals with the theoretical foundation for studying the use of enterprise architectures (EA) in government, while the appendix holds four articles produced in the first year of the PhD-program. The report is available here and I have inserted a table of contents below:
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Formal Report Requirements
1.2 Motivation and Research Focus
1.3 Project Background and Current Status
2. RESEARCH FIELD: UNDERSTANDING ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURES IN GOVERNMENT
2.1 Electronic Government
2.2 Enterprise Architecture
2.3 Discussion and Implications
3. RESEARCH RESULTS
3.1 Paper I: Enterprise Architecture in Government – Towards a Multi-Level Framework for Managing IT in Government
3.2 Paper II: Extensible Architectures: The Strategic Value of Service-Oriented Architecture in Banking
3.3 Paper III: How To Make Government Agile to Cope with Organizational Change
3.4 Paper IV: Establishing Enterprise Architectures in Government: A Case Study on Interoperability
4. RESEARCH DESIGN: ENVISIONING THE THESIS AS A WHOLE
4.1 Research Process
4.2 New Institutional Theory
4.3 Outlining a Paper Model Dissertation
LIST OF REFERENCES
APPENDIX 1: ESTABLISHED ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORKS
APPENDIX 2: RESEARCH PAPERS I-IV
The final deadline for the status report is August 5. Please feel free to post your comments to the first version of the status on my blog or send me a mail.
Posted by khm at July 18, 2005 09:10 AM
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The link "here" in the text above, points to a Powerpoint presentation and not a report...
I would like to read the bit about SOA in banking :-)
Cheers,
Per
Posted by: Bear_One at July 19, 2005 08:50 AM
Thank you for the tip! Out article about SOA in Banking can be found here: http://www.itu.dk/people/khm/Baskerville+2005
All the best, Kristian
Posted by: Kristian at July 19, 2005 09:38 AM
Hi Kristian,
I would suggest you include a specific discussion on security principles as these are the really tough issues in eGovernment.
For eGovernment to be sustainable, you need to replace the breaking down of the physical silos with clear logical barriers to prevent centralisation of control and ensure empowerment of the citizen versus central administration (and anyone with legitimate or ilegitimate access to the networks opening op and exposing the vulnurabilities).
By principle, whenever data with global identifiers such as a CPR-number is stored server-side, security is no longer sustainable. OIO in Denmark is unfortunately close to a worst case example so there is lots to do.
Remember - in eGovernment profilling is a negative as government is supposed to be on the side of the citizen. Identity Theft and Identity Fraud are just two major escallating problems in the digital world.
http://www.securitytaskforce.org/dmdocs/workshop2/stephan_engberg.pdf
Posted by: Stephan at August 18, 2005 12:27 AM