Enterprise Architecture and EA Modelling from Systems Theory Perspective

In today's digital transformation era, technology has become an integral part of enterprises and organizations; this integration can only be efficacious when technology is aligned with business strategies. This business-IT alignment can be achieved via Enterprise Architecture (EA). Previous research extensively studied the benefits of EA adoption, frameworks, and processes, mostly from an information systems perspective. However, not an insignificant number of these frameworks and processes were criticized as being ambiguous, inconsistent, and infeasible to be used in the real world and EA theory construction. Hence, in this work, we will promote the general systems theory perspective to express EA more rigorously, holistically, and consistently. This study contributes to EA understanding by providing the initial grounds for modelling and constructing an EA theory from the systems theory perspective to making EA more conceivable and practical.