Optimizing IT Implementation by Using the Enterprise Architecture Approach (EA)

2009 ◽  
pp. 261-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Ioannidis ◽  
Nikolaos Skarpetis
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Profit Margins ◽  
It Implementation ◽  
Business Conditions

Businesses world-wide are faced with similar challenges including changing business conditions, shrinking profit margins, and competitive pressures. An organization is affected daily by the vast amounts of information received and stored from both external and internal environments. This information when not organized or standardized in a strategic manner, leads to the fragmentation of this same information. In turn, this fragmentation negatively affects an organization’s productivity, competitive advantage and thus its profitability. This chapter discusses the importance of developing a system that not only works in support of, but hand-in-hand with the specific needs of a given business. Through the discussion of its main characteristics and its implementation, it will be shown that the Enterprise Architecture Approach (EA) meets this specific need, as it provides the “blue-prints” to strategically organize information.

Optimizing IT Implementation by Using the Enterprise Architecture Approach (EA)

2010 ◽  
pp. 879-891
Author(s):  
Anthony Ioannidis ◽  
Nikolaos Skarpetis
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Profit Margins ◽  
It Implementation ◽  
Business Conditions

Businesses world-wide are faced with similar challenges including changing business conditions, shrinking profit margins, and competitive pressures. An organization is affected daily by the vast amounts of information received and stored from both external and internal environments. This information when not organized or standardized in a strategic manner, leads to the fragmentation of this same information. In turn, this fragmentation negatively affects an organization’s productivity, competitive advantage and thus its profitability. This chapter discusses the importance of developing a system that not only works in support of, but hand-in-hand with the specific needs of a given business. Through the discussion of its main characteristics and its implementation, it will be shown that the Enterprise Architecture Approach (EA) meets this specific need, as it provides the “blue-prints” to strategically organize information.

An Overview and Summary

2008 ◽  
pp. 375-388
Author(s):  
Bill Karakostas ◽  
Yannis Zorgios
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
World Wide ◽  
First Generation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Profit Margins ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
The World ◽  
Model Driven Approach

This book has introduced a model-driven approach for identifying, designing, deploying, and managing business services in software. The concept of e-service is an extension of conventional business services, made possible thanks to the rapid explosion in popularity of the Internet and the World Wide Web (Rust & Kannan, 2003). The first generation of e-commerce was based largely on retailing commodity goods, such as books and CDs, and used mass media advertising to contact consumers. The premise of first generation e-commerce was that operational efficiencies (i.e., minimizing the need and therefore the expense to keep physical stores) would reduce the costs of selling. Unfortunately, selling commodities has low profit margins due to competition. An alternative is required, that allows companies to built sustainable competitive advantage, based on their capability to deliver more individualized and hence more profitable e-services.

scholarly journals EGE DENİZİ’NDEKİ KARASULARI SORUNUNUN TÜRK VE ULUSLARARASI DENİZ TİCARETİ’NE ETKİLERİ

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gökçe Çiçek CEYHUN
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Transition Regime ◽  
Trade Routes

In today's world, one of the most fundamental strategies of states is to develop their competitive power by controlling energy lines and energy resources. Turkey, has high competitive advantage when compared to other countries especially in terms of geographic location. For this reason, Turkey has an attractive position in terms of the sharing of freight transport and having key role with maritime trade policies. Although maritime trade routes are legally free, such as transit and innocent passage, they are affected by the problem of sovereignty of sea areas. In particular, commercial routes to be followed by ships in controversial maritime areas have the potential to be influenced by a number of measures in favor of the coastal state in relation to the transition regime. Although in theory the freedom of transition is accepted, the conflicts between the coastal states in practice constitute an indicator of the big problems that can be experienced in the future. There are many world-wide problems in the coastal states such as territorial waters, continental shelf and exclusive economic zone. One of the most well-known problem is the ongoing territorial waters matter in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey. In this study, the possible effects of the developments related to the limitation of territorial waters in the Aegean Sea to the maritime trade of our country and international maritime trade were evaluated. Within the scope of the research, in-depth literature was searched, the current situation was examined through maps related to maritime trade routes, and the possible scenarios were discussed and the study was terminated by presenting future measures and predictions.

Enterprise Architecture for Business Objectives

2015 ◽  
pp. 171-187
Author(s):  
Leshoto Mphahlele ◽  
Tiko Iyamu
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Rapid Rate ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Business Objectives ◽  
Organizational Challenges ◽  
The Impact

The demand for better services by customers and citizens keeps increasing at a rapid rate, enabling organizations the leverage towards competitive advantage. The enterprise architecture (EA) has merged as a possible solution for addressing organizational challenges, as well as for competitiveness and sustainability. The EA deployment involves agents, which are both human and non-human. The agents, based on their interest, influences and determines how the EA is deployed. During the deployment of EA, agents transform themselves in accordance to their interest at the time and space, making the process challenging in achieving the organisational needs. As examined and presented by this chapter, understanding of agents' interests is significant if the challenges that they pose are to be managed for successful deployment of EA. The chapter presents the impact of agents on the deployment of EA in organizations, through the lens of structuration theory.

scholarly journals Cloud IaaS Enterprise Architecture Design on Multiplatform Integrated Information System using Cloud Ecosystem Reference Model and TOGAF

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Setiyo Widayat ◽  
M Suksrisno Mardiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
It Implementation ◽  
Score Card ◽  
Solid Foundation

Currently Information Technology is increasingly needed by many organizations. Implementation of inappropriate IT in the organization will be a burden, even can hinder the development if not in accordance with the vision and mission of the organization. Weill and Ross also stated, 48 percent of companies that do IT investment cannot increase the expected value. A solid foundation in the execution process of IT implementation plays an important role in determining the success or failure of the company to achieve the desired goals. To build a solid foundation on the execution process of IT implementation, one of the important things to note is Enterprise Architecture (AE). Enterprise architecture provides a long-term view of the processes, systems and technologies in the company, so there is a harmony between business and IT both for now and for the future to achieve the desired goals. Currently the use of cloud computing technology increasingly used in organizations. Organizations typically have a variety of different platform integrated applications that are used to support their business processes. There are many frameworks used to build AE, but there is no AE framework specifically addressing AE design on cloud computing and supports multiplatform and cloud-based IaaS. This paper discusses the use of TOGAF and CERM to educational institution that have many integrated multiplatform applications. AE design that was built is validated by using Enterprise Realization Score Card (EARS) to assess whether it can be implemented well in the organization.

scholarly journals Development of an Enterprise Architecture for Healthcare using TOGAF ADM

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-321
Author(s):  
Abba Suganda Girsang ◽  
Achmad Abimanyu
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Target Architecture ◽  
Business Objective ◽  
Complex Organization

Hospital is one of the most complex organization with highly intensive interaction between stakeholders (patients, nurses, doctors, staff, etc.). In the operation of a hospital, the use of Information technology has been proven to improve effectiveness and efficiency. However, in the majority of cases, the processes to achieve the Strategic Objectives through implementation of Information Technology are full of challenges. Based on the case study in Dharmais Cancer Hospital, there are many symptoms that are identified by this study and lead to 4 issues, namely: lack of ownership from Business users, lack of alignment between business strategy and IT strategy, lack of awareness to use IT as a tool for competitive advantage, and low quality of IT operation performances. In order to solve the issues and support the achievement of Strategic Business Objective through IT, an Enterprise Architecture approach can be used to develop baseline architecture, identify the target architecture, finding the gap, and use the gap as recommendation to solve those issues. The methodology chosen is TOGAF ADM, based on its focus on processes and its flexibility to combine artifacts and approaches that are most suitable for the case. This study develops 7 recommendations to Strengthen Business area of organization, 5 recommendations to Align IT plan with Business Strategy, 16 recommendations to Implement several IT solutions as Competitive Advantage for organization, and 8 recommendations to provide higher performances by enabling Service Management approach for IT Operation. This study also shows how TOGAF ADM can improve the awareness of the business users to the business itself. Doi: 10.28991/esj-2021-01278 Full Text: PDF

Curricula Frameworks for an E-Learning Catalog

2009 ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
Bettie C. Hall ◽  
Nancy A. Inskeep
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Competitive Forces

Viable organizations use learning concepts to obtain competitive advantage and to leverage the organization’s knowledge. To remain viable, a learning organization embraces electronic communication and the World Wide Web to address increasing competitive forces and changing consumer wants. To focus these efforts, we discuss the importance of developing a curricula framework that meets the organization’s business and learning objectives and present examples of an e-learning system’s online catalog’s features and functionality.

IT Management Practices in Small Firms

2011 ◽  
pp. 507-511
Author(s):  
Paul B. Cragg ◽  
Theekshana Suraweera
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
It Management ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Term Management

Computer based information systems have grown in importance to small firms and are now being used increasingly to help them compete. For example, many small firms have turned to the World Wide Web to support their endeavours. Although the technology that is being used is relatively well understood, its effective management is not so well understood. A good understanding is important as the management of IT is an attribute that has the potential to deliver a sustainable competitive advantage to a firm (Mata, Fuerst, & Barney, 1995). This chapter shows that there is no one accepted view of the term “IT management” for either large or small firms. However, the term “management” is often considered to include the four functions of planning, organising, leading, and controlling. This framework can be applied to small firms and specifically to their IT management practices.

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