Understanding the Role of Organizational Culture for Design and Success of Enterprise Architecture Management

Enterprise architecture management is considered a valuable means to guide the consistent design and evolution of increasingly complex information systems. Despite existing research on EAM methods and models, organizations often face serious difficulties making EAM effective. The paper proposes to take organizational culture as a highly aggregated construct describing the context of EAM initiatives for building situational - or for that matter culture sensitive EAM methods - into account. We find that organizational culture significantly moderates the impact of EAM’s design on EAM’s success. In group culture, hierarchical culture and developmental culture it is essential to develop EAM from a passive into an actively designing approach to make it effective. Particularly in group culture it is rewarding to strive for an EAM approach that impacts stakeholders outside the IT department

Development And Quality Evaluation Of Instant Breakfast From Red Rice And Maize Flour Blends

Objective: This current study was to develop and evaluate instant breakfast from red rice, black gram, maize and spinach. Methodology and results: Instant idli mix was developed from red rice, black gram incorporated with maize and spinach, other ingredients included salt, sodium bicarbonate, water. Control products consisted of only red rice and black gram, the three treatments were incorporated with maize and spinach at different ratios. The treatments underwent proximate analysis, sensory evaluation and microbial analysis. The results of the most preferred idli mix recorded values of moisture(6.57±0.04), protein(11.32±0.27), fat(2.45±0.32), total ash(3.96±0.02), crude fibre(0.93±0.03). The Overall acceptability in sensory evaluation revealed that sample 2 is the most preferred out of all the other treatments with overall score of 8.32. Microbial analysis showed that sample 2 had 8.5x10⁴cfu/g of total plate count on 0 day, 12.08x10⁴cfu/g on 30 days and 12.24x10⁴cfu/g on 60 days. Conclusion: the instant idli premix which were made at different levels were tasted and judged by 10 panels which resulted with sample 2 as the most preferred breakfast, it was generally well received and the nutritional value were high for fat, total ash and crude fibre as compared to control. Further work and improvement can be made with proper technology for a better production in the future

SOA-Migration und - Integration auf Basis von Service-Repositories

Zusammenfassungen: Serviceorientierte Architekturen (SOA) spielen eine wichtige Rolle in der Gestaltung von Unternehmensarchitekturen. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, wie mithilfe von Indikatoren der Migrations- und Integrationsbedarf klassischer Applikationslandschaften in serviceorientierte Architekturen bewertet werden kann. Anhand der Indikatoren lassen sich Normstrategien für die Priorisierung der Migration und Integration ableiten. Dadurch können fallspezifisch Fragestellungen, wie z. B., wie viel Serviceorientierung notwendig ist, unter wirtschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten beantwortet werden. Am Beispiel eines Service-Repositories bei der Sparkassen Informatik GmbH & Co. KG wird gezeigt, wie dieses systematisch für die Bewertung von Services genutzt werden kan

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Wertbeitrag serviceorientierter Architekturen: ein Framework für Business Cases als Ergebnis einer empirischen Studie

Zusammenfassungen: Serviceorientierte Architekturen (SOA) werden von vielen als zukunftsweisendes Architekturparadigma gesehen. Jedoch können bisher nur wenige Unternehmen auf profunde Erfahrungen zurückblicken. Unternehmen, die erste SOA-Projekte abgeschlossen haben, stehen vor der Herausforderung, den Wertbeitrag der neuen Lösung zu beurteilen, um Entscheidungen für Folgeprojekte treffen zu können. Unternehmen, die vor ersten SOA-Projekten stehen, müssen evaluieren, welche Vorteile durch SOA realisiert werden können. Diese Unsicherheiten zeigen sich in unterschiedlichen Meinungen von IT- und Fachbereichen, die unterschiedliche Kosten- und Nutzenaspekte in die Bewertung einbeziehen. Im Rahmen einer empirischen Studie mit Organisationen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum wurde ein Framework zur Bewertung der Wirtschaftlichkeit von SOA erarbeitet. Das Framework beinhaltet quantitative und qualitative Gröβen, um den Wertbeitrag für die Fach- und IT-Seite abzubilden. Um die tatsächlich durch SOA erzielten Ergebnisse zu verdeutlichen, beinhaltet das Framework Berechnungsbeispiele aus den beteiligten Organisationen. Ein weiteres Ergebnis der Studie ist ein Katalog von Risiken, die mit der Einführung von SOA verbunden sind, sowie Strategien, diese Risiken zu minimieren. Die Erfahrungen der Unternehmen zeigen, dass die Entscheidung für oder gegen SOA häufig nicht auf harten Zahlen basiert, gleichzeitig jedoch ein steigendes Bedürfnis nach solider Bewertung und Rechtfertigung besteht. Die Ergebnisse der Studie unterstützen Praktiker aus Fachbereichen und IT bei der Beurteilung von SOA durch konkrete adaptierbare Kosten-, Nutzen- und Risikodimensione

Criteria of progress for information systems design theories

According to Kuhn, science and progress are strongly interrelated. In this paper, we define criteria of progress for design theories. A broad analysis of the literature on information systems design science reveals that there is no consensus on the criteria of progress for design theories. We therefore analyze different concepts of progress for natural science theories. Based on well-founded criteria stemming from the philosophy of science and referring to natural science theories, we develop a set of criteria of progress for design theories. In summary, our analysis results in six criteria of progress for design theories: A design theory is partially progressive compared to another if it is ceteris paribus (1) more useful, (2) internally more consistent, (3) externally more consistent, (4) more general, (5) simpler, or (6) more fruitful of further research. Although the measurement of these criteria is not the focus of this paper, the problem of measurement cannot be totally neglected. We therefore discuss different methods for measuring the criteria based on different concepts of truth: the correspondence theory of truth, the coherence theory of truth, and the consensus theory of truth. We finally show the applicability of the criteria with an exampl

Business Models in the Data Economy: A Case Study from the Business Partner Data Domain

Data management seems to experience a renaissance today. One particular trend in the so-called data economy has been the emergence of business models based on the provision of high-quality data. In this context, the paper examines business models of business partner data providers. The paper explores as to how and why these business models differ. Based on a study of six cases, the paper identifies three different business model patterns. A resource-based view is taken to explore the details of these patterns. Furthermore, the paper develops a set of propositions that help understand why the different business models evolved and how they may develop in the future. Finally, the paper discusses the ongoing market transformation process indicating a shift from traditional value chains toward value networks - a change which, if it is sustainable, would seriously threaten the business models of well-established data providers, such as Dun & Bradstreet, for example

The Divergent Statuses and Revitalization Efforts among the Ao Linguistic Group

A study that attempts to continue the discourse on language death and revitalization, and some of the socio-cultural grounds that led to marked differences in the linguistic stature of the different languages group – Poetic Mongsen, Mongsen, Jungli, and Changki, spoken by a common tribal community, the Aos of Nagaland, India

AN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ARCHITECTUAL TRANSFORMATION

The need for constant transformation of enterprises is omnipresent. A discipline that has been proposed to support the coordination of enterprise transformation is Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) which has grown to a mature discipline in academia and practice. However, it can be observed in practice that it still is a challenge to introduce such an architectural coordination approach for supporting enterprise transformation. This may be due to the reason that the institutional context of EAM is only little understood, that is, the interplay between the pressures EAM exerts on the organisation and the response strategies of this organisation. The paper reviews existing work on institutional theory and confirms by means of a case study that the institutional factors of cause, constituents, content, control, and context are not only relevant for EAM but may be consistently linked to response strategies of acquiesce, compromise, avoid, defy, and manipulate. Moreover the case study implies to add additional institutional factors for EAM, namely trust and participation