Towards Strategic Information Systems Change Management

Rūta Pirta

2015

Abstract

Information systems (IS) are changing continuously accordingly the changes in enterprise business and operating models and other internal and external factors that influence the enterprise. To manage IS changes, engineering change management (ECM) process is performed. The one of the major problem in ECM process is that changes are not planned, evaluated, controlled and implemented (i.e. governed) appropriately, what frequently results with sub-optimal architectural decisions causing a number of problems to the enterprise. In this paper, an initial idea of approach to evaluate and control IS changes using Enterprise Architecture (EA) landscapes is proposed. The envisioned approach compares different EA landscapes to evaluate changes, their impact to related processes and data flows and generates architectural recommendations about implementation of the change in EA to meet the “ideal” or envisioned EA landscape. The main focus of this paper is the problem domain analysis, what include an overview of related research and empirical analysis of architectural change management in private sector companies and state institutions.

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Pirta R. (2015). Towards Strategic Information Systems Change Management . In Doctoral Consortium - DCEIS, (ICEIS 2015) ISBN Not Available, pages 3-11


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@conference{dceis15,
author={Rūta Pirta},
title={Towards Strategic Information Systems Change Management},
booktitle={Doctoral Consortium - DCEIS, (ICEIS 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={3-11},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
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AU - Pirta R.
PY - 2015
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