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Enterprise Architecture for the Adaptive Enterprise – A Vision Paper

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Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research and Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET 2012, TEAR 2012)

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Dealing with change is a major concern in enterprise architecture. As organizations face increasingly fast-moving environments, systematic frameworks are needed to manage change at many levels. Recent advances in data analytics and business intelligence enable organizations to gain deep insights quickly and recognize needs for change, and to take actions in response. Current enterprise architecture approaches have limited ability to model and reason about the adaptiveness that is available or desirable in various parts of an enterprise. In this vision paper, we attempt a preliminary characterization of an adaptive enterprise, so as to stimulate debate and research towards EA frameworks that explicitly support adaptiveness as a design goal. Initial ideas to adopt and integrate modeling constructs from system dynamics and goal-oriented and agent-oriented requirements engineering are outlined.

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Yu, E., Deng, S., Sasmal, D. (2012). Enterprise Architecture for the Adaptive Enterprise – A Vision Paper. In: Aier, S., Ekstedt, M., Matthes, F., Proper, E., Sanz, J.L. (eds) Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research and Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation. PRET TEAR 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34163-2_9

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