Challenges of EA Methodologies Facing Progressive Decentralization in Modern Organizations

• Enterprises with transparent boundaries, decentralized organizational structure, and constantly increasing requirements on IT flexibility, is a novel generation of organizations of 2020s. This paper elaborates on how the Enterprise Architecture (EA) can better support such organizations. We analyze three types of organizational structure: centralized, federated and decentralized. First, we identify the concepts that link organizational structure, IT Governance and EA. Then we use these concepts to identify conceptual problems related to IT decentralization, and to propose solutions. We illustrate our findings with a real case of a Higher Education organization in Sweden.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Information Systems (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Enterprise Modeling

Enterprise Architecture

IT Governance

Computer and Systems Sciences

data- och systemvetenskap

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