Abstract Healthcare organizations operate within a network of governments, insurers, inspection services and other healthcare organizations to provide clients with the best possible care. The parties involved must collaborate and are accountable to each other for the care provided. This has led to a diversity of administrative processes that are supported by a multi-system landscape, resulting in administrative burdens among healthcare professionals. Management methods, such as Enterprise Architecture (EA), should help to develop and manage such landscapes, but they are systematic, while the network of healthcare parties is dynamic. The aim of this research is therefore to develop an EA framework that fits the dynamics of network organizations (such as long-term healthcare). This research proposal outlines the practical and scientific relevance of this research and the proposed method. The current status and next steps are also described.
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Author Supplied: In the last decades, architecture has emerged as a discipline in the domain of Information Technology (IT). A well-accepted definition of architecture is from ISO/IEC 42010: "The fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution." Currently, many levels and types of architecture in the domain of IT have been defined. We have scoped our work to two types of architecture: enterprise architecture and software architecture. IT architecture work is demanding and challenging and includes, inter alia, identifying architectural significant requirements (functional and non-functional), designing and selecting solutions for these requirements, and ensuring that the solutions are implemented according to the architectural design. To reflect on the quality of architecture work, we have taken ISO/IEC 8402 as a starting point. It defines quality as "the totality of characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated requirements". We consider architecture work to be of high quality, when it is effective; when it answers stated requirements. Although IT Architecture has been introduced in many organizations, the elaboration does not always proceed without problems. In the domain of enterprise architecture, most practices are still in the early stages of maturity with, for example, low scores on the focus areas ‘Development of architecture’ and ‘Monitoring’ (of the implementation activities). In the domain of software architecture, problems of the same kind are observed. For instance, architecture designs are frequently poor and incomplete, while architecture compliance checking is performed in practice on a limited scale only. With our work, we intend to contribute to the advancement of architecture in the domain of IT and the effectiveness of architecture work by means of the development and improvement of supporting instruments and tools. In line with this intention, the main research question of this thesis is: How can the effectiveness of IT architecture work be evaluated and improved?
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With the development of Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a discipline, measuring and understanding its value for business and IT has become relevant. In this paper a framework for categorizing the benefits of EA, the Enterprise Architecture Value Framework (EAVF), is presented and based on this framework, a measurability maturity scale is introduced. In the EAVF the value aspects of EA are expressed using the four perspectives of the Balanced Scorecard with regard to the development of these aspects over time, defining sixteen key areas in which EA may provide value. In its current form the framework can support architects and researchers in describing and categorizing the benefits of EA. As part of our ongoing research on the value of EA, two pilots using the framework have been carried out at large financial institutions. These pilots illustrate how to use the EAVF as a tool in measuring the benefits of EA.
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Het (mee)denken over de toekomst van ons erfgoed is inmiddels een breed maatschappelijk debat. Ideeën over de definities, het behoud en het waarderen van erfgoed veranderen snel. Tijdens hun opleiding ontwikkelen masterstudenten een mening in dit debat in een theorievak (AR1LA061) van de mastertrack Landscape architecture (TUD). In het vervolgvak (AR3LA011) wordt de studentenworkshop ingezet om een locatie specifieke ontwerpvisie te ontwikkelen, als vorm van ‘research-by-design’. Het doel is om studenten lokale vragen te leren uitwerken. Deze locatie specifieke ontwerpvisies leveren na analyse ook nieuwe generieke informatie op, die begeleiders van studentenworkshops nog onvoldoende gebruiken in meer theoretische vragen over het definiëren, waarderen en transformeren van erfgoed. Dit onderzoek wil bijdragen aan het gebruiken van ontwerpvisies voor verbetering van de algemene erfgoedkennis van eigenaren, gemeenten en landschapsarchitectuuropleidingen. Dit onderzoek wil voorzien in handvatten om dergelijke analyses te onderbouwen en zo bij te dragen aan een rijke leeromgeving. Het doel van het voorgestelde onderzoeksproject is om met handvatten te komen hoe de ontwerpvisies van studentenworkshops kunnen worden benut in het verzamelen van kennis over definiëren, waarderen en transformeren van (landschappelijk) erfgoed. Dit onderzoek kent drie pijlers; een literatuurstudie naar dergelijke studentenworkshops in onderwijs (design charettes), een analyses van twee eerdere workshops (op basis van interviews met betrokkenen) en het toepassen van inzichten uit de eerste twee pijlers in een nieuw te organiseren workshop voor het living lab Zuiderwaterlinie in de Landschapstriënnale 2020. De Zuiderwaterlinie is een linie van forten, steden en inundatievelden door heel Noord-Brabant (afbeelding 1). Tegenwoordig is deze militaire verdedigingslinie een drager voor een nieuw te ontwikkelen recreatief en vitaal erfgoedlandschap. Breda heeft vitaliteit als speerpunt aangewezen in City Deals Kennis Maken. In dit onderzoek werkt de TU Delft samen met de gemeente Breda, het projectbureau Zuiderwaterlinie, Staatsbosbeheer en de universiteit Wageningen.
