Adaptive Enterprise Architecture for Digital Innovation and Transformation
Enterprise Architecture (EA) could be considered a descriptive and/or prescriptive design of an enterprise. Traditional approaches to EA heavily focus on the modelling and documentation aspects and tend to overlook the actual stakeholders and their needs, in particular, when dealing with complex and large digital innovation and transformation. This calls for the need of an adaptive EA. Based on ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011, an adaptive EA is the fundamental concepts or properties of an adaptive enterprise service system or ecosystem: situated in its environment (e.g. political, economic, sociological, technological, legal and environmental), embodied in its elements (e.g. interaction, human, technology, facility), relationships (e.g. type and strength) to each other and its environment, and in the adaptive principles of its secure design and evolution. The Gill Framework ® V4.0 Adaptive EA requires a fundamental shift the way currently organisations operate their E