TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ullrich, Andre
A1  - Bertheau, Clementine
A1  - Wiedmann, Miriam
A1  - Sultanow, Eldar
A1  - Körppen, Tim
A1  - Bente, Stefan
T1  - Roles, tasks and skills of the enterprise architect in the VUCA world
T2  - 2021 IEEE 25th International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops : EDOCW 2021 : 25-29 October 2021, Gold Coast, Australia : proceedings
N2  - For the last 20 years, enterprise architecture management (EAM) was primarily an instrument for harmonizing and consolidating IT landscapes and is lived as a transformation and governance discipline. It, however, is rather related to IT strategy than aligned to the actual corporate strategy and the work of the enterprise architect is characterized by tasks like prescribing, monitoring, documenting, and controlling. As digital transformation continues apace, companies are facing new challenges that lead to a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. To face these challenges, vision, understanding, clarity and agility allow to anticipative and implement necessary changes. This, of course, has implications for the role of the enterprise architect. S/he needs to start actively supporting innovation and taking more of an advisory role instead of just being driven by the current state of the enterprise architecture. This paper investigates the role of the enterprise architect in the VUCA world. Based on current literature and expert interviews, a survey was conducted among consultants who work as (or with) enterprise architects. Survey results include the evaluation of statements on current tasks of enterprise architects, their influence on projects and companies as well as future requirements on the roles of the enterprise architect. The results from the survey were synthesized with the findings from literature to derive the roles, tasks and skills of enterprise architect in the VUCA world.
KW  - enterprise architecture management
KW  - skills
KW  - roles
KW  - enterprise architect
KW  - VUCA
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63073
SN  - 978-1-6654-4488-0
SP  - 261
EP  - 270
PB  - IEEE
CY  - Piscataway
ER  -