Leveraging Architectural Thinking for Large-Scale E-Government Projects
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ICIS 2019 Proceedings. ed. / Helmut Krcmar; Jane Fedorowicz. Association for Information Systems, 2019. 3126 (40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019).
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T1 - Leveraging Architectural Thinking for Large-Scale E-Government Projects
AU - Burmeister, Fabian
AU - Drews, Paul
AU - Schirmer, Ingrid
N1 - Digital Government and Smart Cities track
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - Today, many e-government projects are of large scale. They can be considered as socio-technical ecosystems in which citizens, authorities, and enterprises collaborate through information systems. Several of these e-government projects are characterized as partial or total failures, because they could not master the high complexity resulting from a large number of actor classes, nontransparent collaboration processes, and heterogeneous IT landscapes. In an intra-organizational context, architectural thinking supports decision-making by providing continuous transparency on social and technical elements and their relations. This paper extends architectural thinking to the ecosystem level and positions it as an approach that both scholars and project managers can use to deal with the increasing complexity of e-government projects. By conducting a multiple case study of e-government projects, we identify seven areas of architectural concerns and develop a corresponding ecosystem architecture meta-model as the first steps towards leveraging architectural thinking for e-government projects.
AB - Today, many e-government projects are of large scale. They can be considered as socio-technical ecosystems in which citizens, authorities, and enterprises collaborate through information systems. Several of these e-government projects are characterized as partial or total failures, because they could not master the high complexity resulting from a large number of actor classes, nontransparent collaboration processes, and heterogeneous IT landscapes. In an intra-organizational context, architectural thinking supports decision-making by providing continuous transparency on social and technical elements and their relations. This paper extends architectural thinking to the ecosystem level and positions it as an approach that both scholars and project managers can use to deal with the increasing complexity of e-government projects. By conducting a multiple case study of e-government projects, we identify seven areas of architectural concerns and develop a corresponding ecosystem architecture meta-model as the first steps towards leveraging architectural thinking for e-government projects.
KW - Business informatics
KW - Architectural thinking
KW - E-government project
KW - Ecosystem architecture
KW - Meta-model
KW - Stakeholder concerns
UR - https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2019/digital_government/digital_government/10/
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M3 - Article in conference proceedings
T3 - 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019
BT - ICIS 2019 Proceedings
A2 - Krcmar, Helmut
A2 - Fedorowicz, Jane
PB - Association for Information Systems
T2 - International Conference on Information Systems - ICIS 2019
Y2 - 15 December 2019 through 18 December 2019
ER -