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The Role of Enterprise Architecture

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Architecture Principles

Part of the book series: The Enterprise Engineering Series ((TEES,volume 4))

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The aim of this chapter is to identify the role of enterprise architecture, and more specifically, the role of architecture principles. It starts with an exploration of the concept of enterprise transformation, including the enterprise engineering perspective. The purpose of enterprise architecture is to align an enterprise to its essential requirements. Its meaning is that it provides a normative restriction of design freedom toward transformation projects and programs. Key elements of enterprise architecture are concerns, models, views, architecture principles and frameworks. Enterprise architecture addresses the properties that are necessary and sufficient for it to be fit for its mission. Architecture principles are the cornerstones of enterprise architecture. They fill the gap between high-level strategic intents and concrete designs. They provide an anchor in a sea of change.

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    The term system is to be understood here in its original sense of the term (Ashby 1956; Bunge 1979), including ‘systems of systems’ such as enterprises as a whole. The field of IT seems to have hijacked the term system, while making it synonymous to application or software system. In enterprise engineering, however, we will use the term in its original sense, as also understood by the general population and organizational science in particular.

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Greefhorst, D., Proper, E. (2011). The Role of Enterprise Architecture. In: Architecture Principles. The Enterprise Engineering Series, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20279-7_2

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