Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Innovation

This course focuses on the role of information systems in an organisational context, both used internally in organisations and to support the organisation's involvement in collaboration e.g., through digital ecosystems. It will address the reasons why information systems are designed as they are by exploring the needs of organisations and users, the processes and the roles that the systems support in an organisational and work context. Emphasis will be placed on how IT can support innovation and new services design and bring value to an organisation. The course will address methods for business modelling, service design and enterprise modelling that are complementary to systems modelling. Methods related to modelling and quality assurance of models will be presented. Enterprise Architecture methods will also be presented.

Knowledge: The candidate shall establish theoretical insights into enterprise modelling, service innovation and the methods for analysing organisational situations and modelling them. Skills: The candidate shall establish practical skills in creating good enterprise models that enhances the understanding of the design of IT systems and the perspectives of software engineering models. Competence: The candidate shall be able to put the course topics into a broader technological, organisational and social context related to the impact of information systems in society.

The students will work on a term paper assignment during the whole semester. This will include practical enterprise modelling activities, group discussions, presentations and peer reviews. This work will be done during the weekly tutorials.

The main activities will include weekly interactive classroom activities in small groups, lectures, tutorials, modelling, presentations and term paper. The lectures and tutorials are aimed at interactions and discussions among the class participants, rather than a one-way lecture delivery. Weekly tutorials will support the practical modelling and term paper assignment. The course may be taught in English if taken by students who do not speak Norwegian.