Challenges of government enterprise architecture work - Stakeholders' views

Abstract

At present, a vast transformation within government systems is executed towards electronic government. In some countries, this change is initiated as enterprise architecture work. This paper introduces results from an empirical study on different stakeholders' views on enterprise architecture development within Finnish state government. The data is gathered from 21 interviews accomplished during spring 2007 among participants of the Interoperability Programme of Finnish state administration. The interviewees represent different sectors and levels of Finnish government and IT companies. On the basis of qualitative data analysis we discuss challenges of enterprise architecture work in the context of state government. The key conclusion is that the governance level of enterprise architecture needs to be adequately adjusted and enforced as a tool for the development of business operations. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008.