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BIR 2019: Perspectives in Business Informatics Research pp 89–103Cite as

Towards Ecosystemic Stance in Finnish Public Sector Enterprise Architecture

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Governments and organizations in both public and private sector are operating in fields of ever-growing uncertainty and complexity. To study this complex environment, the concept of ecosystems has been suggested, interpreting organizations as intertwined systems among layers of evolving ecosystems. While offering possibilities, operating in an ecosystemic environment might prove to be challenging, and the change from traditional governance structures might be difficult to manage, requiring holistic yet detailed view. Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been an interest of academics and practitioners for few decades, offering one of the most prominent solutions to managing complex organizations. Recently, it has been discussed that EA should further evolve to respond to the interconnectedness of organizations’, thus extending the focus of enterprise architecting from intra-organizational to the ecosystems level. Based on data from 26 in-depth practitioner interviews in Finland, we discuss how EA should be developed to better support Finnish public sector ecosystems. Our data indicates that qualities such as organizational capabilities, holistic view, co-creation and needs-based utilization are essential features of public sector ecosystem EA.

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    Jarkko Nurmi, Katja Penttinen & Ville Seppänen

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Appendix

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For background information we asked for interviewees: name, organization, job description, duration of work in EA field. We also asked them to describe their EA work and their viewpoint to EA work (government-as-a-whole or own organization). Second, we asked backward questions:

  • What do you think about the public sector EA method?

  • Have you used the method in your work?

  • The results of the interviews ten years ago included 1. implementation ability and governance, 2. structures of government and 3. advancement of interoperability as key challenges. In your opinion, are these still challenges?

  • Has EA work increased cross-sectoral co-operation?

  • Are you familiar with the law that mandates the use of EA? Has the law affected EA work?

  • Ten years ago, there was not a mutual understanding about what EA means and what are the main goals of the EA work. In your opinion, is there currently a mutual understanding?

Third, we asked about current EA work:

  • Is EA work done in your organization/client-organization? Why/why not?

  • What kind of strategic goals are set for EA work?

  • What are the stakeholder groups of EA?

  • In your opinion, what is important in EA work?

  • In your opinion, what is redundant in EA work?

  • What is learned from EA work?

  • How does EA support the digitalization of the public sector?

Fourth, we asked about the future of EA:

  • What are the next steps of EA work in your organization/client-organization?

  • How should the EA method be further developed?

  • How information security should be noticed in forthcoming co-operation and public information systems?

  • In your opinion, what kind of future EA work has in public sector?

Last, we asked: Is there something you would like to add?

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Nurmi, J., Penttinen, K., Seppänen, V. (2019). Towards Ecosystemic Stance in Finnish Public Sector Enterprise Architecture. In: Pańkowska, M., Sandkuhl, K. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 365. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31143-8_7

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