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CITGE Research
CITGE is an integral part of Kogod School of Business and located on the campus of American University. The Center for Information Technology and the Global Economy is located in Washington, D.C., a city where decisions on technology policies and globalization issues regularly affect the impact of technology and its spread around the world. The Center conducts multidisciplinary research that is relevant to the ongoing issues and challenges of information technology. The research undertaken by CITGE covers wide range of topics such as IT systems, high technology clusters and country studies. The research is both qualitative and quantitative and employs both qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
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J. Alberto Espinosa, Frank Armour, Wai Fong Boh
Enterprise architecture (EA) is becoming more critical for
modern organizations whose competitive strategies are
tightly linked to their underlying information technology (IT)
infrastructure.The objective of this research is to study the coordination challenges and most effective processes and practices to overcome such challegened in large-scale collaborative technical tasks. We focus more specifically on the enterprise architecting task. In this research we plan to conduct several interviews with enterprise architects and EA stakeholders from multiple organizations to better understand the challenges and best practices associated with coordinating the
architecting process. Our goal is to identify and classify these dependencies and to learn how they can be managed more effectively. Therefore, our main research questions are: (1) what are the main types of dependencies – i.e., coordination challenges – that exist between various architecting activities? (2) what are the most effective coordination processes to manage these dependencies among various stakeholders; (3) how do EA governance structures and mechanisms enhance or constrain coordination in the process of enterprise architecting?
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