To appear in Computers in Industry (2015). Accepted via peer review. Enterprise Engineering and Management at the Crossroads Peter Bernus a,*, Ted Goranson b, John Gøtze c, Anders Jensen-Waud d, Hadi Kandjani e,a, Arturo Molina f, Ovidiu Noran a, Ricardo Rabelo g, David Romero f,a, Pallab Saha h, Pat Turner i,a † a IIIS Centre for Enterprise Architecture Research and Management, Griffith University {P.Bernus, H.Kandjani, O.Noran, P.Turner}@griffith.edu.au,
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[email protected] e Department of IT Management, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran f Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico {dromero, armolina}@itesm.mx g Dept. of Automation and Systems Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis.
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[email protected] Abstract The article provides an overview of the challenges and the state of the art of the discipline of Enterprise Architecture (EA), with emphasis on the challenges and future development opportunities of the underlying Information System (IS), and its IT implementation, the Enterprise Information System (EIS). The first challenge is to overcome the narrowness of scope of present practice in IS and EA, and re-gain the coverage of the entire business on all levels of management, and a holistic and systemic coverage of the enterprise as an economic entity in its social and ecological environment.