Assignment 3 INF 80018 Enterprise Architecture, Strategy and Governance Individual Assignment Weight – 40% Word Limit – 3,000 words Due – Week 12 (the beginning of the lecture) As EA scholar and practitioners, we are sensitive to the relevance of EA research to the EA practitioner community. In relation to EA research, researchers have argued for more practically oriented EA planning methods and frameworks (Simon et al., 2013) and others have argued for research that balances the current narrow technical focus of existing research with a focus on the multiple perspectives on EA (Rozanski & Woods, 2007). Whilst existing approaches may have served a technically oriented audience well, they have resulted in a lack of research and skills in the social processes associated with an EAI. Whilst the existing research into EA has built knowledge concerning approaches to EA management, processes, and driven the development of new methods and tools (Lankhorst et al., 2005), researchers have largely ignored the social relationships between architects, business and technology stakeholders and the importance of these relationships to the outcome of EA initiatives. Assignment Task Review the enterprise architecture literature. To what extent have authors examined the relationship between architects and their stakeholders and what areas of the architect and stakeholder relationship remain under-researched? What are the implications for enterprise architecture practice? References Lankhorst, M.M., Iacob, M.E., & Jonkers, H. (2005). Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Rozanski, N., & Woods, E. (2007). Software Systems Architecture – Working with Stakeholders using Viewpoints and Perspectives. Upper Saddle River: Addison-Wesley. Simon, D., Fischbach, K., & Schoder, D. (2013). An Exploration of Enterprise Architecture Research. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 32, 1-72.