Applying Enterprise Architecture to Business Networks

This study explores the application of EA for business network planning, where it builds upon relevant and well-established descriptive and prescriptive aspects of EA. Prescriptive aspects include integrated models for services, business processes, and resources among other organizational artifacts, at both business and IT levels. Descriptive aspects include ontological classifications of business functionality, which allow EA models to be aligned semantically to both business operations and business strategy. In order to explore and develop the extension of EA, a list of six novation constraints were conceptualised and defined through a literature review and insights from the case studies