Collaborative Enterprise Architecture: Enriching EA with Lean, Agile, and Enterprise 2.0 practices (Paperback)

Ever-changing business needs have prompted large companies to rethink their enterprise IT. Today, businesses must allow interaction with their customers, partners, and employees at more touch points and at a depth never thought previously. At the same time, rapid advances in information technologies, like business digitization, cloud computing, and Web 2.0, demand fundamental changes in the enterprises' management practices. These changes have a drastic effect not only on IT and business, but also on policies, processes, and people. Many companies therefore embark on enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. The role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to architect and supervise this transformational journey. Unfortunately, today's EA is often a ponderous and detached exercise, with most of the EA initiatives failing to create visible impact. The enterprises need an EA that is agile and responsive to business dynamics. Collaborative Enterprise Architecture provides the innovative solutions today's enterprises require, informed by real-world experiences and experts' insights. This book, in its first part, provides a systematic compendium of the current best practices in EA, analyzes current ways of doing EA, and identifies its constraints and shortcomings. In the second part, it leaves the beaten tracks of EA by introducing Lean, Agile, and Enterprise 2.0 concepts to the traditional EA methods. This blended approach to EA focuses on practical aspects, with recommendations derived from real-world experiences. A truly thought provoking and pragmatic guide to manage EA, Collaborative Enterprise Architecture effectively merges the long-term oriented top-down approach with pragmatic bottom-up thinking, and that way offers real solutions to businesses undergoing enterprise-wide change.

• Covers the latest emerging technologies affecting business practice, including digitization, cloud computing, agile software development, and Web 2.0
• Focuses on the practical implementation of EAM rather than theory, with recommendations based on real-world case studies
• Addresses changing business demands and practices, including Enterprise 2.0, open source, global sourcing, and more
• Takes an innovative approach to EAM, merging standard top-down and pragmatic, bottom-up strategies, offering real solutions to businesses undergoing enterprise-wide changes

企業不斷變化的業務需求促使大型公司重新思考其企業IT。如今，企業必須在更多接觸點上與客戶、合作夥伴和員工進行互動，並達到以前從未想過的深度。同時，信息技術的快速發展，如業務數字化、雲計算和Web 2.0，要求企業的管理實踐進行根本性變革。這些變革不僅對IT和業務產生了巨大影響，還對政策、流程和人員產生了影響。因此，許多公司開展了企業範圍的轉型計劃。企業架構（EA）的角色是設計和監督這個變革之旅。不幸的是，如今的EA往往是一個沉重而脫節的過程，大多數EA倡議無法創造可見的影響。企業需要一個靈活且能夠應對業務動態的EA。《協作企業架構》提供了當今企業所需的創新解決方案，這些解決方案基於實際經驗和專家見解。

本書第一部分系統地彙編了當前EA的最佳實踐，分析了當前的EA方法，並確定了其限制和不足之處。在第二部分中，本書引入了精益、敏捷和企業2.0的概念，超越了傳統的EA方法。這種結合方法專注於實際方面，提供了基於實際經驗的建議。

《協作企業架構》是一本引人深思且務實的EA管理指南，有效地將以長期為導向的自上而下方法與務實的自下而上思維相結合，為正在進行企業範圍變革的企業提供了真正的解決方案。

本書的特點包括：
- 涵蓋影響業務實踐的最新新興技術，包括數字化、雲計算、敏捷軟件開發和Web 2.0
- 聚焦於EAM的實際實施而非理論，提供基於實際案例研究的建議
- 解決不斷變化的業務需求和實踐，包括企業2.0、開源、全球外包等
- 採用創新的EAM方法，將標準的自上而下和務實的自下而上策略相結合，為正在進行企業範圍變革的企業提供真正的解決方案