Applying design research artifacts for building design research artifacts: a process model for enterprise architecture planning

  • Authors:
  • Stephan Aier;Bettina Gleichauf

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Information Management, University of St Gallen, St Gallen;Institute of Information Management, University of St Gallen, St Gallen

  • Venue:
  • DESRIST'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Enterprise architecture (EA) describes the fundamental structure of an organization from business to IT EA as a practice as well as a research topic has been around for several years However, existing methods largely neglect the existence of time which is essential in order to systematically approach EA planning The article at hand builds a process model for EA planning as a design research artifact We therefore use another more general design research artifact – a method for process engineering – in order to systematically build our proposed planning process From a design science research (DSR) perspective we demonstrate how elements of the DSR knowledge base can be applied to create new DSR artifacts and how DSR might build a toolbox as it is available in other mature engineering disciplines.