Die Informatik an der schwedischen Universität Jönköping und die Rostocker Wirtschaftsinformatik arbeiten seit vielen Jahren eng zusammen, was auch die gemeinsame Betreuung von Promotionsprojekten umfasst. Jüngstes Ergebnis ist die erfolgreiche Verteidigung der Dissertation Julia Kaidalova am 11.12.2019 in Jönköping. Thema der Arbeit war “Integration of Product-IT into Enterprise Architecture – a method for participatory Business and IT Alignment”.
Betreuer waren Prof. Ulf Seigerroth aus Jönköping, Prof. Anne Persson von der Hochschule in Skövde (Schweden) und Prof. Kurt Sandkuhl aus Rostock. Das Foto zeigt (v.l.) Julia Kaidalova, Ulf Seigerroth und Kurt Sandkuhl mit den Mitgliedern der Promotionskommission Prof. Paul Johannesson (Universität Stockholm), Prof. Monique Snoeck (KU Leuven, Belgien) und Prof. Geert Poels (Universität Gent, Belgien).
Abstract der Dissertation
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a practice for planning, representation and governance of IT components and resources (Enterprise-IT) in an organization. In the context of digital transformation companies are exposed to various sorts of opportunities, both technological and business. Huge potential for value generation lies in Product-IT – built-in software and digital services enhancing the products, which is currently considered separately from Enterprise-IT. Integrated consideration of Product-IT and Enterprise-IT is hindered by various challenging factors, such as the mismatch between the agile and traditional modes for IT development and maintenance, disjointed technology platforms and overall lack of methodological support to address Product-IT. This thesis proposes a method for Product-IT inclusive EA, aiming to support integrated modelling of Product-IT and Enterprise-IT. The proposed method is the central artifact of a design science research process, which was grounded and evaluated theoretically (literature reviews) and empirically (industrial case study and experts interviews). The proposed method includes several parts: the key concepts for product-IT inclusive EA modelling expanding the traditional set of EA concepts, a set of focal areas enabling integrated modelling and analysis of Product-IT and Enterprise-IT, and a set of recommendations for participatory modelling of the proposed focal areas by the relevant stakeholders.