Incorporating enterprise strategic plans into enterprise architecture
Carlos Azevedo is a PhD Student in the Services, Cybersecurity and Safety researchgroup, his Supervisor is Professor Roel Wieringa from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
This doctoral degree program was undertaken jointly with the Federal University of Espirito Santo (Brazil) and the University of Twente
Emphasis has been given to the Enterprise Architecture (EA) discipline with respect to enterprise management. To incorporate strategic plans into the EA discipline, several challenges need to be addressed, from the representation of strategy in EA to the relation between a particular strategy and the whole EA, including its operational level. An additional challenge lies in identifying a precise conceptualization for strategic management elements in EA. This thesis aims to incorporate enterprise strategic plans into the EA discipline, thereby enabling the expression of strategic plans, as well as the expression of their relations to the operational aspects of an EA. We use the notion of capabilities and resources, from management theories. In this setting, resources and capabilities serve as abstractions of EA behavioral and structural elements, and are key to relate and trace strategic level to operational level concerns. We built a theoretical foundation for using capabilities and resources in the EA discipline. We employ a comprehensive foundational ontology to deal with plans, objects, relations, roles and dispositions, as well as social and intentional concepts. The theoretical foundation has been used to revise the ArchiMate language metamodel, with which we performed four case studies.
