Enterprise Architecture as a Means for Coordination - An Empirical Study on Actual and Potential Practice
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2012-09-08
Author(s)
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is considered a means to guide the alignment of business- and IT-related concerns from an enterprise-wide perspective. Our goal in this paper is to understand by which means EAM supports this coordination task today and potentially in the future. We designed a questionnaire and conducted an empirical study (n=95) with participants from the field of EAM. Based on common coordination mechanisms from literature, we analyze (1) the relation between coordination mechanism and their current EAM support, (2) to what degree participants are aware of opportunities of EAM supporting coordination mechanisms, and (3) what the perceived gap between potential and realized EAM coordination support is. An exploratory factor analysis leads to three factors that represent coordination mechanisms in enterprises. Using these factors, we group participating enterprises in three different clusters: (1) non-coordinators, (2) dominators and (3) negotiators. We find that a similar awareness of opportunities exists in all three clusters, yet there are gaps in the realization of EAM coordination support: non-coordinators show the lowest realization, negotiators the highest. Based on this clustering, we provide implications on further EAM development options.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
MCIS 2012 Proceedings
Publisher
AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Start page
33
Event Title
7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS 2012)
Event Location
Guimarães, Portugal
Event Date
08.-10.09.2012
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
217357
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