A challenge in Information Systems Design Science Research (ISDSR) is the evaluation of constructedInformation Systems Design Theories. March and Smith (1995, p. 254) state that “significant difficulties… result from the fact that artifact performance is related to the environment in which...

Based on an IEEE definition and its adaptation by The OpenGroup enterprise architecture (EA) is often defined as the fundamentalorganization of a company or government agency and theprinciples governing its design and evolution [16, 25]. Whiledesign representation issues like meta-modeling or...

Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is expected to providebusiness value by guiding the continuous development andtransformation of an enterprise. Based on the approach we strivefor constructing useful artifacts that guide the successful andsituational design of EAM. In order to do so we...

The transparency created by enterprise models is avaluable support for organizational engineering andespecially enterprise transformation. However, current approaches are hardly suitable to also create transparency of the enterprise transformation process itself. The paper at hand contributes a...

By the early twentieth century, Schumpeter had already stressed the importance of innovation for a sustainable development of enterprises. Innovation is especially important for information and com-munication technology (ICT) companies as their business model is based on rapidly changing...

According to Kuhn, science and progress are strongly interrelated. Inthis paper, we define criteria of progress for design theories. A broad analysis of theliterature on information systems design science reveals that there is no consensuson the criteria of progress for design theories. We...

Although managerial issues of data warehousingand business intelligence received considerable attentionin recent years, the strategy process has notoften been investigated. This is particularly true forthe recently proposed, more holistic concept of informationlogistics. This paper discusses the...

Cost allocations for business intelligence (BI) costs create cost awareness, enhance cost transparency, and support the management of BI systems. Although BI cost allocation is highly relevant in practice, the field is widely uncharted in current scholarly research. In this article, the state of...