Enterprise architecture for small and medium enterprise growth

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 79 LNBIP, Issue , 2011, Pages 61-75

  Jacobs, Dina ^a,c   Kotzé, Paula ^a,b,d   Van Der Merwe, Alta ^a,b   Gerber, Aurona ^a,b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c TriVector   (South Africa)

^d NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Enterprise architecture; growth stage models; small and medium enterprises

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; COMBINES;

BUSINESS SKILLS; ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE; EXECUTION MODEL; GROWTH STAGES; KEY CONSTRAINTS; LEVEL OF CHANGE; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES; SMALL ENTERPRISE;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 79956291100     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21058-7_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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