Requirements for IT Governance in Organizations Experiencing Decentralization

Jelena Zdravkovic (1) , Irina Rychkova (2) , Thomas Speckert (1)

1 Stockholm University
2 CRI - Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Paris 1

Decentralization of organizations and subsequent change of their management and operation styles require changes in organization's processes and heavily involve IT. Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks fit to primarily centralized organizational structures, and as such have shortcomings when used in decentralized organizations. We illustrate this idea on the example of one organization in the Higher Education sector that faces decentralization of its structure and has to adapt to it. Overcoming these challenges requires some new principles to be introduced and incorporated into the EA knowledge. In particular for IT governance, in this study we argue that peer-to-peer principles can offer more suitable governance over current EA frameworks as they are able to better align with decentralized components of an organizational structure.

Keywords: Enterprise Modeling; Enterprise Architecture; IT Governance

Domains: Modeling and Simulation

Jelena Zdravkovic, Irina Rychkova, Thomas Speckert. Requirements for IT Governance in Organizations Experiencing Decentralization. Information Systems Engineering in Complex Environments, Jun 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece. pp.16, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-19270-3_17⟩. ⟨hal-01174651⟩