Based on an IEEE definition and its adaptation by The OpenGroup enterprise architecture (EA) is often defined as the fundamentalorganization of a company or government agency and theprinciples governing its design and evolution [16, 25]. Whiledesign representation issues like meta-modeling or...

By the early twentieth century, Schumpeter had already stressed the importance of innovation for a sustainable development of enterprises. Innovation is especially important for information and com-munication technology (ICT) companies as their business model is based on rapidly changing...

According to Kuhn, science and progress are strongly interrelated. Inthis paper, we define criteria of progress for design theories. A broad analysis of theliterature on information systems design science reveals that there is no consensuson the criteria of progress for design theories. We...

Most agree that enterprise architecture (EA) arti-facts include not only representation models, but also design principles [35]. While EA modeling and EA models are covered broadly in the EA state-of-the-art, design activity issues and design principles in particular are still neglected. While...

Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is expected to providebusiness value by guiding the continuous development andtransformation of an enterprise. Based on the approach we strivefor constructing useful artifacts that guide the successful andsituational design of EAM. In order to do so we...

The transparency created by enterprise models is avaluable support for organizational engineering andespecially enterprise transformation. However, current approaches are hardly suitable to also create transparency of the enterprise transformation process itself. The paper at hand contributes a...

Although managerial issues of data warehousingand business intelligence received considerable attentionin recent years, the strategy process has notoften been investigated. This is particularly true forthe recently proposed, more holistic concept of informationlogistics. This paper discusses the...

Stable component models are an essential prerequisite for developingcustomer-individual business applications. Thereby the information for theidentification and specification of their components is gained from domainmodels. Reference models constitute a potential source for building...

IT-Dienstleister sind zunehmend gefordert, ihr Serviceportfolio konsequentauf die IT-Unterstützung von Geschäftsprozessen der Kunden auszurichten.Dadurch können Diversifikation sowie Transparenz in den IT-Ausgaben und ihremstrategischen Wertbeitrag beim Kunden erreicht werden. Für eine...

IT service providers are increasingly required to orientate their service portfolio towards the IT support of their consumer’s business processes. This enables diversification as well as transparency in costs andservices vis-à-vis the customer to be achieved. Such services however, appear too...