SCENARIO-BASED EVALUATION OF ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE - A top-down approach for chief information officer decision making

Mårten Simonsson, Åsa Lindström, Pontus Johnson, Lars Nordström, John Grundbäck, Olof Wijnbladh

2005

Abstract

As the primary stakeholder for the Enterprise Architecture, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is responsible for the evolution of the enterprise IT system. An important part of the CIO role is therefore to make decisions about strategic and complex IT matters. This paper presents a cost effective and scenario-based approach for providing the CIO with an accurate basis for decision making. Scenarios are analyzed and compared against each other by using a number of problem-specific easily measured system properties identified in literature. In order to test the usefulness of the approach, a case study has been carried out. A CIO needed guidance on how to assign functionality and data within four overlapping systems. The results are quantifiable and can be presented graphically, thus providing a cost-efficient and easily understood basis for decision making. The study shows that the scenario-based approach can make complex Enterprise Architecture decisions understandable for CIOs and other business-orientated stakeholders

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Simonsson M., Lindström Å., Johnson P., Nordström L., Grundbäck J. and Wijnbladh O. (2005). SCENARIO-BASED EVALUATION OF ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE - A top-down approach for chief information officer decision making . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 130-137. DOI: 10.5220/0002517301300137

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Mårten Simonsson and Åsa Lindström and Pontus Johnson and Lars Nordström and John Grundbäck and Olof Wijnbladh},
title={SCENARIO-BASED EVALUATION OF ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE - A top-down approach for chief information officer decision making},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={130-137},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002517301300137},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - SCENARIO-BASED EVALUATION OF ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE - A top-down approach for chief information officer decision making
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Simonsson M.
AU - Lindström Å.
AU - Johnson P.
AU - Nordström L.
AU - Grundbäck J.
AU - Wijnbladh O.
PY - 2005
SP - 130
EP - 137
DO - 10.5220/0002517301300137