Abstract
Local perspectives are important in designing effective enterprise integration solutions because they provide deep understanding of how each system may interact with others. Combining these local perspectives into a global solution is, however, equally important to develop a coherent enterprise integration blueprint. The participants in this exercise tend to be managers who have local but informal knowledge, and designers who may have a global but incomplete view that must be translated into formal models necessary for implementation. We develop a method and supporting modeling constructs aimed at such ‘designing-in-the-large’ that facilitates this bridging from local perspectives to global solutions, and from informal representations to formal models amenable for implementation. We present the result as design science outcomes – a Method and Modeling Constructs – that have benefited from multiple design-and-test cycles, and describe an authentic demonstration.
Keywords
- Designing-in-the-Large
- Systems Integration
- Design Science Research
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Purao, S., Bolloju, N., Tan, C.H. (2012). Designing-in-the-Large: Combining Local Perspectives to Generate Enterprise-Wide Integration Solutions. In: Peffers, K., Rothenberger, M., Kuechler, B. (eds) Design Science Research in Information Systems. Advances in Theory and Practice. DESRIST 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7286. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29863-9_10
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