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Collaborative Method to Develop an Enterprise Architecture in a Public Institution
The growth of organizational complexity degrades
business processes efficiency. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an
instrument to manage organizational complexity, through the
improvement of organizational self-awareness. EA improves
alignment between business and IT to ensure the business value
of IT, and enables rationalization of organizational resources.
However, depending of organizational culture and
characteristics, there are several issues hindering the EA
development within an organization. Actual frameworks, like
TOGAF, require a significant number of skilled human
resources (HR), which some organizations, like public
institutions, cannot assign to EA activities. Our research goal is
to provide an EA capability to public institutions, enabling these
institutions to take advantage of EA benefits. Public institution
contexts and stakeholder concerns were explored as well as issues
acting as enablers or as inhibitors for an EA development. We
propose a collaborative method to develop an EA, applying lean
and agile principles, focusing on public institution specificities.
Our collaborative method tries to capture organizational
knowledge, spread among employees, into an EA model, to map
the enterprise cartography of the institution. Our method has
been demonstrated and evaluated in the IT sector of the
Portuguese Navy.info:eu-repo/semantics/draf
Inter-organizational fault management: Functional and organizational core aspects of management architectures
Outsourcing -- successful, and sometimes painful -- has become one of the
hottest topics in IT service management discussions over the past decade. IT
services are outsourced to external service provider in order to reduce the
effort required for and overhead of delivering these services within the own
organization. More recently also IT services providers themselves started to
either outsource service parts or to deliver those services in a
non-hierarchical cooperation with other providers. Splitting a service into
several service parts is a non-trivial task as they have to be implemented,
operated, and maintained by different providers. One key aspect of such
inter-organizational cooperation is fault management, because it is crucial to
locate and solve problems, which reduce the quality of service, quickly and
reliably. In this article we present the results of a thorough use case based
requirements analysis for an architecture for inter-organizational fault
management (ioFMA). Furthermore, a concept of the organizational respective
functional model of the ioFMA is given.Comment: International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC
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