Enterprise Architecture in the Age of Digital Transformation

Recent advances in digital technologies are enabling enterprises to undergo transformations for streamlining business processes, offering new products and services, expanding in new areas, and even changing their business models. Current enterprise architecture frameworks are used for analysis, design, and strategy execution, helping an enterprise transition from an as-is state to a to-be state. However emerging trends suggest the need for richer models to support on-going adaptations and periodic transformations. The scope of enterprise architecture modeling needs to be expanded to include the multiple levels of dynamics that exist within any enterprise, the sense-and-respond pathways that drive change at operational and strategic levels, and the tension between centralized control and local autonomy.