IS/IT Architecture: An Integrated View and Typology

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 3753-3761

  Ball, Nicholas L ^a   Xia, Weidong ^a   Adams, Carl R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Integrating Architecture; IS IT Architecture; Organizational Structure; Relational Architecture; Standardization

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN;

BUSINESS UNITS; CORPORATES; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DIMENSION DESIGN; INTEGRATING ARCHITECTURE; IS/IT ARCHITECTURE; IT ARCHITECTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGNS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; RELATIONAL ARCHITECTURE;

STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 79952378320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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