This session consists of a sponsor lightning discussion followed by two presentations
Featured Speakers
Juan Alegret, Academic Portals – Founder & CEO:
Beyond Boundaries: Extrospective Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education
Enterprise Architecture (EA) focusses on aligning internal processes, systems, and technologies with the organization’s strategic goals and operational needs. This internal alignment ensures efficiency, coherence, and optimal resource utilization within the organization. This approach to EA is mainly introspective and it is worth exploring the importance of adopting an extrospective view to EA in higher education. While traditional EA focuses on internal alignment, an extrospective view broadens the perspective by incorporating external factors such as stakeholder needs, market trends, and collaborative opportunities, interoperabiity. Leveraging frameworks like the Higher Education Reference Model (HERM), European universities can enhance their adaptability, drive innovation, and better prepare for future challenges through a more outward-looking EA strategy.
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Andreas Hartmann, HTWK Leipzig, Germany:
Guidelines and good practice on how to establish enterprise architecture management in higher education institutions #17
The digital journey of higher education institutions is challenging. This community of practice paper summarises the main reasons for this. As a result, it not only suggests the adoption of enterprise methodologies but also explains how to do so. As many institutions are struggling to establish these methodologies and models, a set of comprehensive guidelines are compiled and motivated from the literature. General advice on how to establish new methodologies (e.g. getting management support) is left aside as it seems to be well-known and often repeated in the community. This paper addresses the specific challenges of implementing and sustaining enterprise architecture, with a primary focus set
on Germany, as a driver and fundamental method for digital change in higher education.
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Ari Rouvari, Tampere University:
The Capability Models for Steering Execution of the Strategies in the Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences CIO Forum #31
CIOs of higher education institutions need appropriate IT management tools for gaining digital transformation. Enterprise architecture is a suitable method for managing digital transformation. However, the EA frameworks are complex tools for use, and they need architecture expertise and time to adapt them to achieve their full benefits. This compare case study describes how the Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences CIO forum is utilizing the selected Higher education reference model (HERM) and Business technology (BT) standard and their capability models. An ethnographic approach has enriched this study – the author has used his experiences using the BT standard as an IT secretary general of the CIO forum. In contrast to several EA method and framework studies, there is much less information about the effects of BT standard or HERM on IT management. The study includes some propositions for practitioners to use the capability models in information and knowledge management in the HEI sector and recognize research gaps for future research.
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