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December 20, 2006
Framing National Enterprise Architectures
Visiting Dr. Marijn Janssen, I am in Delft this week working on a framework for analyzing national EA programs. We are trying to enrich a model that we developed earlier this year for a HICSS 2007 conference paper. The paper was accepted for HICSS and I presented our model at the EA Summit earlier this year. But, we still need to work with it if we want to submit it to a journal. Especially our theoretical foundation needs to be developed further.
The framework should results in a better understanding of national EA efforts. We hypotheses that an analysis of national EAs should at least encompass five elements, 1) Policies, actors and strategies, 2) Governance 3) Architecture model 4) Architecture principles and standards and 5) Implementations. We test this framework by analyzing the EA efforts of two European countries. Our analysis shows that EA should be framed within the institutional environment and governance aspects determine the adoption and diffusion of EA.
Below, I have inserted our original HICSS abstract. The new version of the paper that we are working on will focus more on the theoretical framework than the national case studies. I think we are on to something interesting here – so stay tuned ;-)
National enterprise architectures (NEA) promise to fill the gap between policy and implementation. NEAs are embedded within an institutional environment consisting of active players capable of responding strategically and innovatively to architectural initiatives, which might complicate NEA adoption. In this paper we analyze the efforts of two European national governments in developing enterprise architecture. Grounded in institutional theory and practice we develop an analytical framework and use this framework to analyze the fforts of two countries, Denmark and the Netherlands. Our framework and analysis draws the attention to the need to take a broader perspective on enterprise architecture, especially governance aspects determine the adoption and diffusion of NEA.
Posted by khm at December 20, 2006 05:53 AM
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