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Business Information Technology
The decisions of how to define enterprise information architectures throughout a global business have immediate effects on the ability of a business model to succeed in scaling across new geographies while continually improving financial performance in existing ones. Just as each business model for any enterprise varies significantly based on the trajectory of growth through the success of new business units to successful mergers and acquisitions, the same holds true for enterprise information architectures as well (Ryan, Santucci, 1993). The intent of this analysis is to evaluate how an enterprise or business might differ in their views of enterprise information architectures.
Analysis of Enterprise Information Architectures
The variations in enterprise information architectures will be predicated on how a given business model has evolved in response to customer requirements, supply chain costs and constraints, and will over time reflect the decision-making patterns of senior management. All of these...
When enterprises are doing well financially there is also a complacency that sets into the IT decisions regarding information architecture, allowing inconsistencies and lack of a single of system of record to exist (Pessi, Magoulas, Hugoson, 2011). Enterprises need to stay vigilant however to the continual creation of value, specifically by combining the functions of cost, services and outcomes, the equation of value as defined in the text (p. 44) and shown throughout the text in several others areas as well (Carroll, Yasnoff, Ward, Ripp, Martin, 2003). This equation of value as a function of cost, service and outcome (pp. 44) can also be used as a metric to evaluate how well-aligned an enterprise information architecture is…
References
Carroll, P., Yasnoff, W., Ward, E., Ripp, L., & Martin, E.(Eds). (2003). Public health informatics and information systems. new York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
Pessi, K., Magoulas, T., & Hugoson, M. (2011). Enterprise architecture principles and their impact on the management of IT investments. Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, 14(1), 53-62.
Ryan, H., & Santucci, J. (1993). Building an enterprise information architecture. InfoWorld, 15(12), 57-57,60.
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