Analysis of Enterprise Architecture Capability Maturity Models

Sasithorn Suchaiya, Somnuk Keretho

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Abstract—One of the challenging tasks for organizational digital transformation is on how to effectively prepare and drive changes. These changes include not only about technology platforms but also the business environment as a whole. To systematically manage such complexity of digital transformation, the concept of enterprise architecture is normally recommended to be used. However, many organizations which started adopting enterprise architecture programmes were not very successful and then abandoned these initiatives after a few years. These failures are due to several critical factors that most early adopters of enterprise architecture are not familiar with and in many cases they are overwhelmed to deal with. This paper suggests that enterprise architecture capability maturity models should be adopted as a guiding tool to iteratively assess, prepare and implement digital transformation within organizations. In this paper, four well-known capability maturity models for enterprise architecture are compared and analyzed against a recommended set of critical success factors. A specific enterprise architecture capability maturity model is then recommended as a suitable model for any early adopters of enterprise architecture to prepare and drive organizational-wide digital transformation initiatives.
Keywords- Digital Transformation; Digital Government; Enterprise Architecture; Capability Maturity Models


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