Enterprise Architecture Modelling for Corporate Sustainability
The chapter aims to validate the usability of enterprise architecture (EA) development methodologies to support enterprise sustainable development. The main thesis of the chapter is that EA modelling supports the sustainable development of business organi
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Abstract The chapter aims to validate the usability of enterprise architecture (EA) development methodologies to support enterprise sustainable development. The main thesis of the chapter is that EA modelling supports the sustainable development of business organisation as well as the sustainable governance of IT in the organisation. Therefore, the first part of the chapter covers discussion on what sustainability is, particularly in the context of EA development. The second part comprises analysis of EA modelling methods and explanations of their usefulness for sustainable development. The third part includes presentation of the EA development principles as important for corporate sustainability.
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Introduction
In socio-economic literature, sustainable development is the practice of meeting the needs of society today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs [1]. The term in its environmental usage refers to the potential longevity of vital human ecological support systems, such as the climatic systems, systems of agriculture, industry, forestry and fisheries and the various systems, on which they depend in balance with the impacts of their unsustainable or sustainable design. In each information communication technology (ICT) project, project sponsors expect results for prolonged periods of time and expect answer to the questions of what results will be available in the future, how project beneficiaries want to ensure project results sustainability and what project results arrive after the project financial support finishes. Sustainable development is to be proactive about change.
M. Pankowska (*) University of Economics, Katowice, Poland e-mail: [email protected] H. Linger et al. (eds.), Building Sustainable Information Systems: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Information Systems Development, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-7540-8_28, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
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The move towards the enterprise engineering is usually strongly based on economic considerations, i.e. development and maintenance costs reduction, decrease of human efforts and power energy usage and improvement of the quality of the resulting EA components. The EA engineering approaches are to support the integrity, reliability, effectiveness, efficiency and actuality of the EA components as well as large-scale reuse during the systems’ development.
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Sustainability Development
Sustainability is a characteristic of a process or state than can be maintained at a certain organisational level. It is understood as the simultaneous effort of balancing economic, social and environmental goals for a corporation [2]. So, sustainability is a metaphor for describing corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship or ethical business conduct. In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) related sustainability to corporations and the economy by defining the sustainable development as development that meets the needs of the pre
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