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ICEIS 2013: Enterprise Information Systems pp 16–34Cite as

Enterprise Architecture: Informed Steering of Enterprises in Motion

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Enterprises are constantly in motion. Novel technologies, new markets opportunities, cost reduction, process improvement, service innovation, globalisation, mergers, acquisitions, etc., continuously trigger enterprises to change. This variety of change drivers also fuels the need for enterprises to seek the right balance between the many, quite often contradicting, drivers for change.

In this position paper, we aim to investigate the potential role of enterprise architecture as a means to support senior management in steering/influencing the direction in which an enterprise “moves” in response to, or in anticipation of, the many change drivers. In doing so, we aim to develop a fundamental understanding of the systemic playing field in which enterprise architecture is to play a role. To this end, we will start by exploring how enterprises can be seen as being continuously “in motion”. We then turn to the control paradigm to reflect on the need to steer this motion. We will also argue that the resulting steering system is a second order information system. Using this understanding we then identify the ingredients needed for enterprise architecture.

This work has been partially sponsored by the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (www.fnr.lu)

The EE-Team is a collaboration between CRP Henri Tudor, the Radboud University Nijmegen, the HAN University of Applied Sciences, the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, and the University of Luxembourg (www.ee-team.eu).

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Notes

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    http://www.marchmenthill.com/qsi-online/2011-06-19/organizational-drift

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_affairs_(news_format)

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_System_Model

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Proper, H.A. (2014). Enterprise Architecture: Informed Steering of Enterprises in Motion. In: Hammoudi, S., Cordeiro, J., Maciaszek, L., Filipe, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 190. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09492-2_2

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