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Method and Practical Guidelines for Overcoming Enterprise Architecture Adoption Challenges
During the last few years, interest towards Enterprise Architecture
(EA) has increased, not least due to anticipated benefits resulting from adopting
it. For instance, EA has been argued to provide cost reduction, technology
standardisation, process improvement, and strategic differentiation. Despite these
benefits, the EA adoption rate and maturity are still low. Consequently, EA
benefits are not realised. A major reason hindering the adoption is that EA is not
understood correctly. This paper aims for minimising the effect of the lack of
understanding EA to adopting EA. Based on the research conducted in Finnish
public sector, we propose an improved Enterprise Architecture Adoption Method
(EAAM) to overcome the EA adoption challenges. EAAM is built using Design
Science approach and evaluated using Delphi method. Some practical guidelines
for applying EAAM are also provided to help organisations to overcome EA
adoption challenges.peerReviewe