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Enterprise Architecture Quality Assessment

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Proceedings of Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology

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The enterprise architecture (EA) assessment can be provided in different ways. In general, the EA assessment supports information communication technology (ICT) implementation. Beyond that, business organization stakeholders have an opportunity to monitor effectiveness and efficiency of business processes. They can modify the business structure, increase the business innovativeness, and ensure business strategy realization. Nowadays, EA stakeholders establish their own methodologies for EA quality assessment. This paper includes analyzes of the architecture frameworks, assessment models, and standards. This article aims to answer the question, if the design science research (DSR) paradigm is useful for EA quality assessment. Hence, this paper includes a proposal of new approach to EA quality assessment, based on emphasizing the relevance and rigor as key concepts.

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Pańkowska, M. (2023). Enterprise Architecture Quality Assessment. In: Yang, XS., Sherratt, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Proceedings of Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 448. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1610-6_4

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