Enterprise Architecture for Global Companies in a Digital IT Era

This book investigates solutions incorporated by architecture boards in global enterprises to resolve issues and mitigate related architecture risks while also proposing and implementing an adaptive integrated digital architecture framework (AIDAF) and related models and approaches/platforms which can be applied in companies to promote IT strategies using cloud/mobile IT/digital IT. . The book is divided into three main parts the first of which (Chapters 1–2) addresses the background and motivation for AIDAF aligned with digital IT strategies. The second part (Chapter 3) provides an overview of strategic enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks for digital IT elaborates on the essential elements of EA frameworks in the digital IT era and advocates using AIDAF models for architecture assessment/risk management knowledge management on digital platforms. In turn the third part (Chapters 4–7) demonstrates the application and benefits of AIDAF and related models as shown in three case studies.. “I found this book to be a very nice contribution to the EA community of practice. I can recommend this book as a textbook for digital IT strategists/practitioners EA practitioners students in universities and graduate schools.” (From the Foreword by Scott A. Bernard). “In this new age of the digital information society it is necessary to advocate a new EA framework. This book provides state-of-the art knowledge and practices about EA frameworks beneficial for IT practitioners IT strategists CIO IT architects and even students. It serves as an introductory textbook for all who drive the information society in this era.”(From the Foreword by Jun Murai)