This book is for practitioners involved in the strategic planning, design, and implementation of enterprise architectures. It covers the evolution of enterprise architecture practices in the development of digital platforms, which enables physical and virtual, social, and material object...

This paper examines issues connected with enterprise systems design and architecture in the context of inter-organisational integration. This study starts with the definition and characteristics of enterprise systems. Next, it discusses the concept of integration focusing on issues imposed by...

Unter dem Ansatz der wertorientierten Unternehmensführung erforscht Florian Werner die Werttreiber, die nach dem Konzept der Service-orientierten Architektur (SOA) gestalteten Informationssystemen zugrunde liegen. Er analysiert systematisch die Gestaltungsfelder des Managements mit dem...

Decision makers do not make choices in a vacuum. They make them in an environment where many features, noticed and unnoticed, can influence their decisions. The person who creates that environment is, in our terminology, a choice architect. In this paper we analyze some of the tools that are...

This paper describes how entrepreneurial firms can use superior architectural knowledge to open up a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying “bottlenecks” in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture that isolates the...