Enterprise architecture artifacts’ value for digital transformation

Acknowledgments  5
1  Introducton  13
1.1 Revolutonizing business through digital transformaton  17
1.2 Dynamic capabilites, enablers of digital transformaton  19
1.3 The enterprise architecture capability as a driver of dynamic capabilites  21
1.4 Enterprise architecture artfacts  24
1.5 Purpose of this Research and Research Questons  30
1.6 Research Methodology  32
1.6.1  Research queston 1: Which EA artfacts facilitate digital 
transformatons?  33
1.6.2  Research queston 2: Which EA-driven informaton components of EA 
artfacts drive digital transformatons?  34
1.6.3  Research queston 3: How do EA artfacts contribute to improved 
organizatonal performance?  34
1.6.4  Research queston 4: Which factors impact the creaton and use of EA 
artfacts’ contributon to the values enabled by EA?  35
1.7 Dissertaton Outline  35
2  Enterprise architecture artfacts facilitatng digital transformatons’ strategy 
planning process  39
2.1 Introducton  42
2.2 Background  44
2.3 Method  45
2.3.1  Systematc literature review and card sortng  45
2.3.2  Multple case study  47
2.4 SLR and card sortng Results  47
2.4.1  EA artfacts from popular EA sources  47
2.4.2  SLR results  50
2.4.3  Metaplan session results  51
2.4.4  Preliminary conceptualizaton  51
2.5 Multple case study Outcomes  53
2.6 Discussion  55
2.7 Conclusion  58
2.7.1  Theoretcal and practcal implicatons  58
2.7.2  Limitatons and further research  59
3  How enterprise architecture informaton drives digital transformaton  61
3.1 Introducton  64
3.2 Background  65
3.2.1  Digital transformaton: strategic renewal through dynamic capabilites  65
3.2.2  Enterprise architecture’s value in the digital transformaton strategy 
process  67
3.2.3  Enterprise architecture informaton driving digital transformaton 
strategies  67
3.3 Research Method  73
3.4 Results  75
3.4.1  EA informaton driving the sensing capability  75
3.4.2  EA informaton driving the mobilizing capability  77
3.4.3  EA informaton driving the transforming capability  77
3.4.4  The EA informaton driving digital transformatons framework  79
3.5 Discussion and contributons  80
3.6 Conclusion, Limitatons, and Future Work  82
4  Enterprise architecture artfacts’ role in improved organizatonal performance  85
4.1 Introducton  88
4.2 Related Work  89
4.3 Research Method  90
4.4 Results  92
4.4.1  EA Artfacts and EA Value  92
4.4.2  EA Artfacts and Organizatonal Performance  93
4.5 Discussion, Contributon, Limitatons, and Conclusion  96
4.5.1  Discussion  96
4.5.2  Contributon to Research and Practce  97
4.5.3  Limitatons  97
4.5.4  Conclusion  98
5  EA artfacts positoned in an integratve model of enterprise architecture value  101
5.1 Introducton  104
5.2 Background on EA Artfact-Enabled EA Value Research  106
5.3 Research Method  107
5.3.1  Research method design  107
5.3.2  Data analysis  109
5.4 Results  110
5.4.1  EA artfact-enabled EA value: an inductve framework  110
5.4.2  The creaton and use of EA artfacts  111
5.4.3  Potental pre-decision-making EA value  112
5.4.4  Factors afectng EA value  114
5.4.5  EA’s potental post-decision-making organizatonal value  119
5.5 Discussion  121
5.6 Future research, limitatons, and conclusions  123
5.6.1  EA artfact-enabled EA value: a research agenda  123
5.6.2  Limitatons  126
5.6.3  Conclusion  126
6  Conclusions and outlook  129
6.1 Main fndings  131
6.2 Discussion  132
6.2.1  EA artfacts and their informaton components  133
6.2.2  EA artfact-enabled EA value, EA artfacts, and EA routnes  134
6.2.3  EA artfacts, the integratve EA artfact-enabled EA value model and 
the EA value creaton mechanism  136
6.3 Theoretcal contributons  139
6.3.1  Contributons to the enterprise architecture research community  140
6.3.2  Contributons to the digital transformaton research community  140
6.3.3  Contributons to the dynamic capabilites research community  141
6.4 Practcal implicatons  141
6.5 Discussion on main limitatons  143
6.6 Future research  144
6.6.1  Explore the role of informaton components in EA artfacts  144
6.6.2  Understanding the relatonship between EA artfacts and pre-
decision-making values  144
6.6.3  An in-depth exploraton of EA artfact associated decisions, processes 
and lifecycles  145
6.6.4  Explore the informaton components in detail  145
6.6.5  Explore in detail the impact of an organizaton’s propertes  145
6.6.6  Quanttatve research  146
References  147
Appendices  154
Appendix A.  Conference paper: Enterprise Architecture Artfacts Facilitatng 
Digital Transformatons’ Strategic Planning Process  154
Appendix B.  Interview guide for enterprise architecture artfacts facilitatng 
digital transformatons’ strategy planning process  165
Appendix C.  Interview guide for how enterprise architecture informaton drives 
digital transformaton  168
Appendix D.  Interview guide for enterprise architecture artfacts’ role in 
improved organizatonal performance  171
Appendix E.  EA artfacts positoned in an integratve model of EA value: 
illustratve coding examples  173
Appendix F.  EA artfacts identfed in our multple case study on EA Artfacts’ 
Enabling Value for Improved Organizatonal Performance  177
Appendix G.  EA value knowledge graph  178
List of publicatons  179
Summary  180
Samenvatng  183
About the author  186