Fundamentals of EAM

The Art of Systematic and Sustainable Enterprise Digitalization

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Graphics from the Book

The book “Fundamentals of Enterprise Architecture Management” is available at Springer, Amazon or your favourite local bookstore. You can download the frontmatter here, and the graphics here:

  1. Intro
  2. EAM in a Nutshell
  3. Enterprise Architecture in a Nutshell
  4. Strategic and Tactical Context of EAM
  5. Implementing EAM
  6. Evaluating Enterprise Architecture Management

Please find a content summary, updates and further practical examples in this presentation.

Additional EAM Publications

  • Enterprise Architecture Lessons from Steve Jobs.
    LinkedIn, July 2024. Link.
  • Is Enterprise Architecture Management About “Business” or “IT”?
    Youtube, 2024. Video and slides.
  • The Idea of Enterprise Architecture Management
    Youtube, 2024. Video and slides.
  • The Pig Cycle of Digitalization Governance: Navigating the Extremes of Decentralization and Overregulation.
    Medium.com, June 2023. Link.
  • Central and Decentral Allocation of Enterprise Architecture Management Activities.
    University of St. Gallen, guest lecture in Master Lecture “Managing Enterprise Architecture for Digital Transformation” from Professor Robert Winter. May 2023. Link.
  • A Capability Model for Enterprise Architecture Management – Introduction and Examples From the Aviation Industry.
    SwitchON Europe / SOFA Summits, February 2023. Link.
  • Central and Decentral Allocation of Enterprise Architecture Management Activities – Introduction and Examples from the Aviation Industry.
    Softwareforen Leipzig, EAM community days, November 2022. Link.
  • Architectural Content Management in Agile Times – Challenges, Requirements and Solutions Identified in a Large Enterprise.
    INFORMATIK 2019 Workshops, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn 2019. Link.

Data Strategy and Enterprise Architecture

  • “Offensive” and “Defensive” Are NOT Useful Data Strategy Categories.
    LinkedIn, January 2025. Link.
  • Data Strategy: Which Players are on the Field?
    LinkedIn, January 2025. Link.
  • Enterprise Architecture Management am Beispiel von Data Analytics.
    Data Culture Podcast. July 2024. Link.
  • Data Analytics Topologies – Much Mesh About Nothing?
    LinkedIn, March 2024. Link.
  • The Top 6 Use Cases for Data and Insights in Real-Life Enterprises
    LinkedIn, February 2024. Link.

AI and Enterprise Architecture

  • Do Large Enterprises Need a Dedicated “AI Governance” Department?
    LinkedIn, June 2024. Link.
  • Gen AI in a large aviation group – How EAM helps introducing a disruptive technology. Guest lecture, University of Lausanne, May 2024. Link
  • Portfolios of Generative AI Use Cases. A Brief Introduction and Examples from the Aviation Industry.
    LinkedIn, November 2023. Here and, for the presentation: Link

Process Digitalization and Interoperability

  • Prozessdigitalisierung in der Finanzindustrie – Den richtigen digitalen Prozess finden.
    Business Technology Journal, January 2016, Heft 24. Link
  • Architecture of Interoperable Information Systems – Reference Architecture for Collaborations between Public Administrations
    Book chapter in “Bausteine einer vernetzen Verwaltung”, January 2012. Link
  • Modelling of Cross-Organizational Business Processes – Current Methods and Standards.
    EMISA Journal, January 2007. Link

Architecture of Interoperable Information Systems – An enterprise Model-based Approach for Describing and Enacting Collaborative Business Processes.
J. Ziemann. Editor: Peter Loos. January 2010, Logos, ISBN: 978-3832524142. Note: Logos was so kind to permit the free download of a copy here; however, the official, printed version can be obtained here.

Please find a complete list of my publications on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

Videos

Youtube Channel Fundamentals of Enterprise Architecture Management.

Teaching Material

Please contact me, if you need teaching material for your university class. E.g. examplary exams, excercises, or slides from the adjacent lecture “Enterprise Architecture Management and Enterprise Digitalization”.