Abstract
Organizations competing in today’s rapidly changing markets need to react promptly to market needs in order to maintain competitive advantage. Strategic agility is thus paramount. Enterprise architecture, as an essential component supporting strategic business objectives, is widely recognized in scientific literature. As shown by many case studies, large corporations that structure their business with enterprise-wide architecture in mind benefit from more flexibility, reduced costs, and improved business process discipline (Ross et al., 2006). Organizations with a high level of enterprise architecture maturity utilize their reusable process, information, and technology assets in order to deliver new products and services without having to invest heavily in IT with every new project. This chapter uses the term enterprise architecture (EA) as defined by Lapkin (2006): “the process of translating business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change by creating, communicating and improving the key principles and models that describe the enterprise’s future state and enable its evolution.”
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Janek, M. (2012). Collaboration of Enterprise Architects in Outsourcing. In: Brinkkemper, S., Jansen, S. (eds) Collaboration in Outsourcing. Technology, Work and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230362994_5
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