Goal-oriented Decision Support in Collaborative Enterprise Architecture

Abstract

Decision-making in the field of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a complex task. Many organizations establish a set of complex processes and hierarchical structures to enable strategydriven development of their EA. This leads to slow and inefficient decision-making entailing bad time-to-market and discontented stakeholders. Collaborative EA delineates a lightweight approach to enable EA decisions but often neglects strategic alignment. In this paper, we present an approach to integrate the concept of Collaborative EA and goal-driven decision-making through collaborative modeling of goal-oriented information demands based on ArchiMate's Motivation extension to reach a goal-oriented EA decision support in a collaborative EA environment.