scholarly journals Using Enterprise Architecture to Integrate Lean Manufacturing, Digitalization, and Sustainability: A Lean Enterprise Case Study in the Chemical Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4851
Author(s):  
Ming-Hui Liao ◽  
Chi-Tai Wang
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Lean Enterprise ◽  
Architecture Framework

The chemical industry has sustained the development of global economies by providing an astonishing variety of products and services, while also consuming massive amounts of raw materials and energy. Chemical firms are currently under tremendous pressure to become lean enterprises capable of executing not only traditional lean manufacturing practices but also emerging competing strategies of digitalization and sustainability. All of these are core competencies required for chemical firms to compete and thrive in future markets. Unfortunately, reports of successful transformation are so rare among chemical firms that acquiring the details of these cases would seem an almost impossible mission. The severe lack of knowledge about these business transformations thus provided a strong motivation for this research. Using The Open Group Architecture Framework, we performed an in-depth study on a real business transformation occurring at a major international chemical corporation, extracting the architecture framework possibly adopted by this firm to become a lean enterprise. This comprehensive case study resulted in two major contributions to the field of sustainable business transformation: (1) a custom lean enterprise architecture framework applicable to common chemical firms making a similar transformation, and (2) a lean enterprise model developed to assist chemical firms in comprehending the intricate and complicated dynamics between lean manufacturing, digitalization, and sustainability.

The Business Transformation Enterprise Architecture Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-101
Author(s):  
Antoine Trad
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Architecture Framework ◽  
Base Functions ◽  
Enterprise Architecture Framework

This chapter's author based his cross-functional research on an authentic and proprietary mixed research method that is supported by intelligent neural networks combined with a heuristics motor, named the applied mathematical model (AMM). The proposed AMM base functions like the human empiric decision-making process that can be compared to the behaviour-driven development. The AMM is supported by many real-life cases of business and architecture transformation projects in the domain of intelligent strategic development and operations (iSDevOps) that is supported by the alignment of various standards and development strategies that biases the standard market development and operations (DevOps) procedures, which are Sisyphean tasks.

The Business Transformation Framework and Enterprise Architecture Framework for Managers in Business Innovation

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-49
Author(s):  
Antoine Trad
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Architecture Framework ◽  
Enterprise Architecture Framework ◽  
Global Software Engineering ◽  
Technical Recommendations

The KMGSE offers a real-life case for detecting and processing an enterprise knowledge management model for global business transformation, knowledge management systems, global software engineering, global business engineering and enterprise architecture recurrent problems solving. This global software engineering (GSE) subsystem is a driven development model that offers a set of possible solutions in the form of architecture, method, patterns, managerial and technical recommendations, coupled with an applicable framework. The proposed executive and technical recommendations are to be applied by the business environment's knowledge officers, architects, analysts and engineers to enable solutions to knowledge-based, global software engineering paradigms' development and maintenance.

scholarly journals Enterprise Architecture: A Business Value Realization Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8485
Author(s):  
Ayed Alwadain
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Benefits Realization ◽  
Value Realization ◽  
Realization Process ◽  
Organizational Value

Today, as organizations face constant change, they must rapidly adapt their strategies and operations. This involves continuous business transformation. However, guiding and managing such transformation can be an intimidating task because of organizational complexity. Hence, organizations resort to Enterprise Architecture (EA) to address this complexity and achieve their transformation goals. Nonetheless, there is a lack of research on EA benefits realization and a dearth of conclusive evidence on how EA enables business transformation and delivers value to organizations. Therefore, this research uses a case study method to explore how EA investment is converted into organizational value. This research makes two contributions. The first of these is the development of an EA value realization model, which comprises three iterative and interrelated processes: the EA conversion process, the EA use process, and the EA competitive process. The second contribution is the identification of factors that may influence the value realization process.

The Business Transformation Framework and Enterprise Architecture Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 535-566
Author(s):  
Antoine Trad
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Concrete Case ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Architecture Framework ◽  
Enterprise Architecture Framework

In this chapter, the author based his research on his authentic mixed multidisciplinary applied mathematical model that is supported by a tree-base heuristics module, named the applied holistic mathematical model for organizational asset management (AHMM4OAM), where the proposed AHMM4OAM is similar to the human empirical decision making process, which can be applied to any type of asset management discipline, in order to support the evolution of organisational, national, or enterprise asset management. The AHMM4OAM can be used for the detection of financial irregularities, assets optimisations and eventual dangers for the organisation's or national assets. In the case of gigantic financial misdeeds that endanger national assets, which are related to fraud and money laundering that damage many organisations and even countries, and in this concrete case it is related to the Swiss, Union des Banques Suisse (UBS), in which 32 trillion US dollars are hidden and is the problem of global financial disequilibria. The AHMM4OAM is supported by a real-life case of a organisational (or business) transformation architecture in the domain of organizational (or enterprise) asset management (OAM) that is supported by the alignment of a standardized organisational or enterprise architecture blueprint.

The Business Transformation Enterprise Architecture Framework

2020 ◽  
pp. 309-344
Author(s):  
Antoine Trad
Keyword(s):  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Architecture Framework ◽  
Engineering Strategy ◽  
Enterprise Architecture Framework ◽  
Requirements Development ◽  
Development Methods

This chapter's author based his years long cross-functional research on an authentic and proprietary mixed research method that is supported by his own version of an intelligent neural networks, which is combined with an internal heuristics motor; altogether named the applied holistic mathematical model (AHMM), which is applied to requirements engineering strategy. The proposed AHMM fundamentally functions like the human empiric decision-making process that can be compared to the behaviour-driven development methods, which are optimal for requirements engineering. In this chapter, the AHMM is supported by many real-life cases of business and architecture transformation projects requirements' management, abstracted by the intelligent strategic requirements development (iSRDev) concept that is supported by the alignment of various existing standards and development strategies, like the development and operations (DevOps) procedures to map to the project's requirements.

The Business Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Framework

2020 ◽  
pp. 304-339
Author(s):  
Antoine Trad
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Knowledge Management System ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Architecture Framework ◽  
Decision Making System ◽  
Enterprise Architecture Framework

The HSD&E activities are supported by a central decision-making system (DMS) (in which a HR subsystem is included), knowledge management system (KMS), and an enterprise architecture project (EAP). The chapter's proof of concept (PoC) is based on a business case from the insurance domain where the central point is the capacity of the selected manager skillset to successfully start and finalize a BTP or an EAP (or simply a project). The PoC shows the selection process of a manager's skillset to transform the traditional insurance enterprise into an agile and automated enterprise. Projects are managed by managers, who are (or should be) supported by a methodology and a framework that can estimate the risks of failure of a project; at the same time, they should be capable of managing the implementation project processes.

scholarly journals The Benefits of Enterprise Architecture in Organizational Transformation

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 585-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eetu Niemi ◽  
Samuli Pekkola
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Organizational Transformation ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Realization Process

AbstractToday, as organizations constantly adjust their activities to meet ever-changing circumstances, continuous business transformation is taking place. However, planning and steering this transformation can be a daunting task as complexity has been built into the organization over the years. Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been widely adapted as a planning and governance approach to manage the complexity and constant change, and to align the organization toward a common goal. This article studies the EA benefit-realization process by clarifying how EA benefits are realized. Specifically, the focus is on the strategies, resources, and practices which the EA benefits stem from. The findings, derived from an in-depth case study, show that the EA benefit-realization process constitutes a long, intertwined chain of activities. Organizations benefit from EA through various means: from the initiation, when comprehensive understanding starts to form, until years later, when measurable outcomes such as cost savings materialize. Suggestions on what to incorporate into EA programs are presented.

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