Outcomes and success factors of enterprise IT architecture management: Empirical insight from the international financial services industry

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 168-185

  Schmidt, Christian ^a,b   Buxmann, Peter ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Act Consulting GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

EAM; Enterprise architecture; enterprise architecturemanagement; IT architecture; IT complexity; IT efficiency; IT flexibility; IT governance

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE; IT ARCHITECTURE; IT COMPLEXITY; IT FLEXIBILITY; IT GOVERNANCE;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79952425576     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2010.68     Document Type: Article

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