2024-06-19 Wednesday - Researching Approaches to Measuring EA Value

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Research Papers

Enterprise architecture management value creation mechanisms (2024)

by  Sofia Tiitinen (Enterprise Architect, SOK)

https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/93267

https://jyx.jyu.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/93267/URN%253ANBN%253Afi%253Ajyu-202402061758.pdf

See: 4.1 Perceived EAM Value
"None of the respondents completely agree with being satisfied with their organization’s current EAM practices. About 70% disagree with the claim"

*** Pages 37-39
See: TABLE 8 Perceived EAM Value

Page-40:
"Overall, of the synthesized constructs of EA Product Quality, EA Service Quality, EA Culture/Attitude, EA Product Use, and EA Service Use, presented in chapter 2.4.4, all were present in EAM value creation."

*** Important, Page-46
5.3 Limitations
"The results do not come without limitations to validity. With 47 respondents, the sample size of the primary research was significantly limited. The total methodology of the study was novel, with certain exploratory features. Thus, the results are advised to be interpreted as preliminary. The great majority of respondents worked in large organizations with over a thousand employees, meaning this demographic is best suited when interpreting the results. It may be that EAM value is more likely to be achieved in the complex environment of a large corporation. Additionally, all but one respondent worked in organizations operating in Finland, meaning the results do not in their large part represent the experiences of professionals working in organizations not operating in Finland. Thus, it can be concluded the results may not represent the complete population of EAM stakeholders."

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"Another notable limiting factor is difficulty in measuring EAM value due to its typically indirect and/or intangible nature (Kluge, Dietzsch and Rosemann, 2006; Tamm et al., 2011)." 

Towards the Definition of Enterprise Architecture Debts (2019)

By Simon Hacks, Hendrik Höfert, Johannes Salentin, Yoon Chow Yeong, Horst Lichter

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00677

"In the software development industry, technical debt is regarded as a critical issue in term of the negative consequences such as increased software development cost, low product quality, decreased maintainability, and slowed progress to the long-term success of developing software. However, despite the vast research contributions in technical debt management for software engineering, the idea of technical debt fails to provide a holistic consideration to include both IT and business aspects. Further, implementing an enterprise architecture (EA) project might not always be a success due to uncertainty and unavailability of resources. Therefore, we relate the consequences of EA implementation failure with a new metaphor --Enterprise Architecture Debt (EA Debt). We anticipate that the accumulation of EA Debt will negatively influence EA quality, also expose the business into risk."

 

Industry Analsyst Research & Advisory Publications

Gartner

1. Gartner IT Score for Enterprise Architecture & Technology Innovation 
2. 8 Steps to Select and Obtain Value from Enterprise Architecture Tools
3. Summary Translation: Customize EA Metrics to Capture and Communicate the Value of EA
   

 

EA Tool Vendors

LeanIX

1. Value of Enterprise Architecture

 

Other Papers, Blog Posts, Articles

1. Capturing Value from Enterprise Architecture: Understand your field of play, solve tough challenges and drive transformational change (2022), by Christian Schröder (Enterprise Technology and Financial Services, Bain & Company)
2. Calculating the ROI of Your Enterprise Architecture Practice

 

Suggested Books

1. The Practice of Enterprise Architecture: A Modern Approach to Business and IT Alignment, 2nd Edition (2021), by Svyatoslav Kotusev
• "Due to complex historical reasons, the notion of enterprise architecture was always surrounded by endless speculations, dangerous myths, non-existing best practices, unfulfilled promises, expensive failures and grave disappointments. Traditionally the entire discourse around enterprise architecture was dominated by shallow advice and faddish approaches (e.g. well-known EA frameworks) infinitely distant from the practical realities, but nonetheless aggressively promoted by commercially motivated consultancies and gurus."
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