The special issue is now open for submission.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2020.
Call for papers 'The Role of Enterprise Architecture for Digital Transformations'
The strategic role of EA in modern firms has gained considerable interest in recent years within the information systems and management community. The literature conceives EA as a blueprint of firms in the business ecosystem that documents the current and desirable future states of firms’ strategic goals, their collaborative efforts, business processes, and associated IT landscape. In the present turbulent economic environment, many firms face fierce pressure to enact strategic improvement programs to radically change their business models, synchronize firm resources, and operate toward a more sustainable and innovation-driven firm. EA allows firms (in the private and public sector) to timely and adequately adapt to these changing market and technological conditions while orchestrating firm-wide business and technology resources.
Using EA as a strategic asset is especially crucial in the age of digital transformation, where firms need to adopt new technologies that could substantially change the way they do business. However, our current understanding of how EA can be leveraged to embrace the digital transformation remains quite limited.
The Special Issue aims to addresses these remaining gaps in the literature and tries to unfold the strategic role that EA plays in digitization and digitalization efforts. This is important, as these transformative efforts are considered cornerstones for firms to stay relevant and likewise drive innovative business capabilities across the firm.
The special issue editors seek papers that are original and innovative and that substantially extend existing EA work and concepts. Attractive papers are those that push the frontiers of the EA domain, drive best practices and further thinking in this domain, and advance our understanding of EA in the age of digital transformation.
About Rogier van de Wetering
Dr. Rogier van de Wetering, associate professor of computer science and information science, deals with strategy and business operations, cost efficiency and IT alignment challenges in the public sector, with a strong focus on healthcare and education. His interests lie in the effective management and control of processes in organisations by means of effective deployment of IT applications.
About Sustainability
Sustainability is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. Sustainability provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development, and is published semi-monthly online by MDPI.
About the Special Issue Editors
Assoc. Prof. Rogier van de Wetering, Faculty of Beta Sciences, Open Universiteit, Netherlands.
Assoc. Prof. Sherah Kurnia; Computing and Information Systems, Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Svyatoslav Kotusev, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia.