Enterprise Architecture Stakeholders - a Holistic View

Abstract

The importance of identifying and managing stakeholders and their needs has been emphasized in literature from various fields, including management, Information Systems (IS), Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Software Architecture (SA).The concept of stakeholder has been extensively discussed especially in management literature, but in the domain of EA, no comprehensive and generalizable view of stakeholders has yet been introduced.In this exploratory study, a holistic and generic view of EA stakeholders is constructed by identifying the stakeholders and their EA-related concerns through an extensive literature review, supplemented and validated by a focus group interview of EA practitioners.Moreover, a classification scheme for the stakeholders is suggested.The results are applicable by a wide range of academics and practitioners alike, potentially in other related contexts as well.