Introduction to BASE Enterprise Architecture Framework for Holistic Strategic Alignment of the Complex Enterprise

Ivka Ivas

2023

Abstract

There are many enterprise architecture frameworks on the market, but despite being heavily promoted with promises of their expected benefits, in practice they have not proved to deliver expected value. The main reason for this is IT-oriented controlled reductionist approach inapplicable for a complex enterprise. In parallel with IT-oriented enterprise architecture business architecture was developed to support business strategy. But, as a pure business discipline, business architecture also did not prove to deliver expected value because, in a complex enterprise with business, which is highly dependent on IT, it is impossible to decouple business from IT because your business is your IT. This paper will, therefore, introduce the new Business Architecture-based Strategy-driven Enterprise architecture framework (BASE) for improving holistic strategic alignment of the complex enterprise by supporting both formulation and implementation of the enterprise strategy. As foundation of the BASE framework, which will be further explored in future work, this paper will present a business architecture-based enterprise architecture model for managing the complex enterprise, based on business architecture also providing business-adjusted IT insights, and holistic initiative footprinting methodology which will illustrate how to leverage business architecture and proposed EA model to properly scope strategic initiatives already early in the process.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ivas I. (2023). Introduction to BASE Enterprise Architecture Framework for Holistic Strategic Alignment of the Complex Enterprise. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-648-4, SciTePress, pages 575-588. DOI: 10.5220/0011853200003467

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis23,
author={Ivka Ivas},
title={Introduction to BASE Enterprise Architecture Framework for Holistic Strategic Alignment of the Complex Enterprise},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2023},
pages={575-588},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011853200003467},
isbn={978-989-758-648-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Introduction to BASE Enterprise Architecture Framework for Holistic Strategic Alignment of the Complex Enterprise
SN - 978-989-758-648-4
AU - Ivas I.
PY - 2023
SP - 575
EP - 588
DO - 10.5220/0011853200003467
PB - SciTePress