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Digital Architecture - uncovering the focus of architectural principles |
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Sean Natoewal
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Monday, 01 January 2007 |
In recent years much attention has been paid to the field of digital architecture as, among others, described by Rijsenbrij (2004; 2005). A central component in digital architecture is the use of principles that can be described as guiding statements, which affect the use of IT in organizations. However, until today, hardly any research has been conducted in trying to identify the concepts that are/can be addressed in such principles. This, in turn, makes it a complicated task for the digital architect to determine what is/can be addressed in the principles formulated. In this thesis, I present the findings of a research trying to identify these concepts, which was conducted over a period of almost nine months, based on thirteen semi-structured interviews and IT-related literature. The findings are presented based on Rijsenbrij’s four worlds concepts, and cover three of the four worlds: the B-, I-, and A-world.
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